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Atağ G, Vural KB, Kaptan D, Özkan M, Koptekin D, Sağlıcan E, Doğramacı S, Köz M, Yılmaz A, Söylev A, Togan İ, Somel M, Özer F. MTaxi: A comparative tool for taxon identification of ultra low coverage ancient genomes. OPEN RESEARCH EUROPE 2023; 2:100. [PMID: 37829208 PMCID: PMC10565424 DOI: 10.12688/openreseurope.14936.3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 09/26/2023] [Indexed: 10/14/2023]
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A major challenge in zooarchaeology is to morphologically distinguish closely related species' remains, especially using small bone fragments. Shotgun sequencing aDNA from archeological remains and comparative alignment to the candidate species' reference genomes will only apply when reference nuclear genomes of comparable quality are available, and may still fail when coverages are low. Here, we propose an alternative method, MTaxi, that uses highly accessible mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) to distinguish between pairs of closely related species from ancient DNA sequences. MTaxi utilises mtDNA transversion-type substitutions between pairs of candidate species, assigns reads to either species, and performs a binomial test to determine the sample taxon. We tested MTaxi on sheep/goat and horse/donkey data, between which zooarchaeological classification can be challenging in ways that epitomise our case. The method performed efficiently on simulated ancient genomes down to 0.3x mitochondrial coverage for both sheep/goat and horse/donkey, with no false positives. Trials on n=18 ancient sheep/goat samples and n=10 horse/donkey samples of known species identity also yielded 100% accuracy. Overall, MTaxi provides a straightforward approach to classify closely related species that are difficult to distinguish through zooarchaeological methods using low coverage aDNA data, especially when similar quality reference genomes are unavailable. MTaxi is freely available at https://github.com/goztag/MTaxi.
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- Gözde Atağ
- Biological Sciences, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
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- Biological Sciences, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
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- Biological Sciences, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
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- Biological Sciences, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
- Health Informatics, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
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- Health Informatics, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
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- Computer Engineering, Konya Food and Agriculture University, Konya, Turkey
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- Molecular Biology and Genetics, Konya Food and Agriculture University, Konya, Turkey
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- Computer Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
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- Computer Engineering, Konya Food and Agriculture University, Konya, Turkey
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- Biological Sciences, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
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- Biological Sciences, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
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- Anthropology, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
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Broughton JM, Codding BF, Faith JT, Mohlenhoff KA, Gruhn R, Brenner-Coltrain J, Hart IA. El Niño frequency threshold controls coastal biotic communities. Science 2022; 377:1202-1205. [PMID: 36074861 DOI: 10.1126/science.abm1033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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El Niño has profound influences on ecosystem dynamics. However, we know little about how it shapes vertebrate faunal community composition over centennial time scales, and this limits our ability to forecast change under projections of future El Niño events. On the basis of correlations between geological records of past El Niño frequency and the species composition of bird and fish remains from a Baja California bone deposit that spans the past 12,000 years, we documented marked faunal restructuring when major El Niño events occurred more than five times per century. This tipping point has implications for the past and future ecology of eastern Pacific coastal environments.
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- Jack M Broughton
- Department of Anthropology and Archaeological Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Department of Anthropology and Archaeological Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Department of Anthropology and Archaeological Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.,Natural History Museum of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.,Origins Centre, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- Department of Anthropology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Anthropology and Archaeological Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Department of Anthropology and Archaeological Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.,Department of Geography, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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Thurstan RH. The potential of historical ecology to aid understanding of human-ocean interactions throughout the Anthropocene. JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY 2022; 101:351-364. [PMID: 35061243 PMCID: PMC9545720 DOI: 10.1111/jfb.15000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2021] [Revised: 10/28/2021] [Accepted: 01/12/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Marine historical ecology emerged in the scholarly literature with the aim of understanding long-term dynamics in marine ecosystems and the outcomes of past human-ocean interactions. The use of historical sources, which differ in temporal scale and resolution to most scientific monitoring data, present both opportunities and challenges for informing our understanding of past marine ecosystems and the ways in which human communities made use of them. With an emphasis upon marine social-ecological changes over the past 200 years, I present an overview of the relevant historical ecology literature and summarise how this approach generates a richer understanding of human-ocean interactions and the legacies associated with human-induced ecosystem change. Marine historical ecology methodologies continue to be developed, whereas expanded inter- and multidisciplinary collaborations provide exciting avenues for future discoveries. Beyond scholarship, historical ecology presents opportunities to foster a more sustainable relationship with oceans going forward: by challenging ingrained perceptions of what is "normal" within marine ecosystems, reconnecting human communities to the oceans and providing cautionary lessons and exemplars of sustainable human-ocean interactions from the past. To leverage these opportunities, scholars must work alongside practitioners, managers and policy makers to foster mutual understanding, explore new opportunities to communicate historical findings and address the challenges of integrating historical data into modern-day frameworks.
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- Ruth H. Thurstan
- Centre for Ecology and ConservationUniversity of ExeterCornwallUK
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In Support of Sustainability: The Historical Ecology of Vertebrate Biodiversity and Native American Harvest Practices in the Florida Keys, USA. SUSTAINABILITY 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/su14116552] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/10/2022]
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The Florida Keys are currently experiencing unprecedented loss of lifeways, biodiversity, and cultural heritage due to sea-level rise, catastrophic storm events, unsustainable traditions of resource exploitation, and land development. Yet, these islands have a long history of human occupation and socioecological systems underlying their current sustainability crisis that date back at least 2500 years. Here we report early results of ongoing zooarchaeological research from Upper Matecumbe Key designed to explore anthropogenic engagement with vertebrate fauna between AD 800 and 1250, providing an approximately 500-year window on marine fisheries and terrestrial faunal harvesting for this small island archipelago. Focusing on one of the few remaining, nearly intact Native American archaeological sites in the region, our research contributes to critically needed long-term anthropogenic perspectives on harvest patterns relevant to regional biodiversity conservation and sustainability initiatives.
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Hillis D, Gustas R, Pauly D, Cheung WWL, Salomon AK, McKechnie I. A palaeothermometer of ancient Indigenous fisheries reveals increases in mean temperature of the catch over five millennia. ENVIRONMENTAL BIOLOGY OF FISHES 2022; 105:1381-1397. [PMID: 36313613 PMCID: PMC9592643 DOI: 10.1007/s10641-022-01243-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2021] [Accepted: 03/14/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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UNLABELLED Climate change is altering the distribution and composition of marine fish populations globally, which presents substantial risks to the social and economic well-being of humanity. While deriving long-term climatic baselines is an essential step for detecting and attributing the magnitude of climate change and its impacts, these baselines tend to be limited to historical datasets and palaeoecological sediment records. Here, we develop a method for estimating the 'ancient Mean Temperature of the Catch' (aMTC) using Indigenous fisheries catch records from two archaeological sites in the northeast Pacific. Despite different catch compositions, we observe an increase in aMTC over a 5,000-year period at two contemporaneously occupied archaeological sites in southwestern British Columbia, Canada. We document cooler catches from 5,000 to 3,000 cal yr BP and comparatively warmer catches from 1,800 to 250 cal yr BP. These warmer temperatures are broadly consistent with palaeoceanographic sea surface temperature proxies from British Columbia and Alaska. Because this method requires converting measures of fish bones into estimates of fish size structure, abundance, biomass, and finally aMTC, opportunities exist to account for both variation and uncertainty at every step. Nevertheless, given that preindustrial fisheries data are ubiquitous in coastal archaeological sites, this method has the potential to be applied globally to broaden the temporal and geographic scale of ocean temperature baselines. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10641-022-01243-7.
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- Dylan Hillis
- Historical Ecology and Coastal Archaeology Laboratory, Department of Anthropology, University of Victoria, 3800 Finnerty Rd, Victoria, BC V8P 5C2 Canada
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- Historical Ecology and Coastal Archaeology Laboratory, Department of Anthropology, University of Victoria, 3800 Finnerty Rd, Victoria, BC V8P 5C2 Canada
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- Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4 Canada
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- Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4 Canada
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- School of Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6 Canada
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- Historical Ecology and Coastal Archaeology Laboratory, Department of Anthropology, University of Victoria, 3800 Finnerty Rd, Victoria, BC V8P 5C2 Canada
- Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre, Bamfield, BC V0R 1B0 Canada
- Hakai Institute, Quadra Island, BC V0P 1H0 Canada
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Slade E, McKechnie I, Salomon AK. Archaeological and Contemporary Evidence Indicates Low Sea Otter Prevalence on the Pacific Northwest Coast During the Late Holocene. Ecosystems 2021; 25:548-566. [PMID: 35509679 PMCID: PMC9016008 DOI: 10.1007/s10021-021-00671-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2020] [Accepted: 06/15/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The historic extirpation and subsequent recovery of sea otters (Enhydra lutris) have profoundly changed coastal social-ecological systems across the northeastern Pacific. Today, the conservation status of sea otters is informed by estimates of population carrying capacity or growth rates independent of human impacts. However, archaeological and ethnographic evidence suggests that for millennia, complex hunting and management protocols by Indigenous communities limited sea otter abundance near human settlements to reduce the negative impacts of this keystone predator on shared shellfish prey. To assess relative sea otter prevalence in the Holocene, we compared the size structure of ancient California mussels (Mytilus californianus) from six archaeological sites in two regions on the Pacific Northwest Coast, to modern California mussels at locations with and without sea otters. We also quantified modern mussel size distributions from eight locations on the Central Coast of British Columbia, Canada, varying in sea otter occupation time. Comparisons of mussel size spectra revealed that ancient mussel size distributions are consistently more similar to modern size distributions at locations with a prolonged absence of sea otters. This indicates that late Holocene sea otters were maintained well below carrying capacity near human settlements as a result of human intervention. These findings illuminate the conditions under which sea otters and humans persisted over millennia prior to the Pacific maritime fur trade and raise important questions about contemporary conservation objectives for an iconic marine mammal and the social-ecological system in which it is embedded.
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- Erin Slade
- School of Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia V5A 1S6 Canada
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- Historical Ecology & Coastal Archaeology Laboratory, Department of Anthropology, University of Victoria, Cornett B246a, 3800 Finnerty Rd, Victoria, British Columbia V8P 5C2 Canada
- Hakai Institute, Heriot Bay, Quadra Island, British Columbia Canada
- Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre, Bamfield, British Columbia V0R 1B0 Canada
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- School of Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia V5A 1S6 Canada
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Guiry EJ, Kennedy JR, O'Connell MT, Gray DR, Grant C, Szpak P. Early evidence for historical overfishing in the Gulf of Mexico. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2021; 7:7/32/eabh2525. [PMID: 34348901 PMCID: PMC8336961 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abh2525] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2021] [Accepted: 06/16/2021] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Fisheries encompass complex interplays between social, economic, and environmental factors, but limitations on historical fisheries data can hamper efforts to identify and contextualize the long-term spatiotemporal patterns that shape them. We integrate 2500 years of stable isotope (δ34S, δ13C, and δ15N) and zooarchaeological evidence from Gulf of Mexico fisheries to assess cultural, demographic, and technological changes affecting sheepshead (Archosargus probatocephalus) populations and fishing practices in Louisiana, USA. Concurrent with human population growth, average sizes of sheepshead caught decreased from the 1720s to 1830s. The size of fish caught after the 1830s increased to pre-1720 levels at the same time that isotopic compositions of fish bone collagen show that fish were being caught from a more diverse range of ecosystems, including distant seagrass beds. Our findings provide the first evidence for large-scale depressions of historical sheepshead populations and the processes driving them, including rapid human population growth and sustained harvesting pressure.
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- Eric J Guiry
- School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester, Mayor's Walk, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK.
- Department of Anthropology, Trent University, 1600 West Bank Dr., Peterborough, ON K9L 0G2, Canada
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- Department of Anthropology, University of New Orleans, Milneburg Hall 352, 2000 Lakeshore Dr., New Orleans, LA 70148, USA
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- Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New Orleans, 1065 Geology and Psychology Building, 2000 Lakeshore Drive, New Orleans, LA 70148, USA
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- Department of Anthropology, University of New Orleans, Milneburg Hall 352, 2000 Lakeshore Dr., New Orleans, LA 70148, USA
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- Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago, 1126 East 59th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Department of Anthropology, Trent University, 1600 West Bank Dr., Peterborough, ON K9L 0G2, Canada
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Gold Z, Curd EE, Goodwin KD, Choi ES, Frable BW, Thompson AR, Walker HJ, Burton RS, Kacev D, Martz LD, Barber PH. Improving metabarcoding taxonomic assignment: A case study of fishes in a large marine ecosystem. Mol Ecol Resour 2021; 21:2546-2564. [PMID: 34235858 DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.13450] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2020] [Revised: 05/25/2021] [Accepted: 06/03/2021] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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DNA metabarcoding is an important tool for molecular ecology. However, its effectiveness hinges on the quality of reference sequence databases and classification parameters employed. Here we evaluate the performance of MiFish 12S taxonomic assignments using a case study of California Current Large Marine Ecosystem fishes to determine best practices for metabarcoding. Specifically, we use a taxonomy cross-validation by identity framework to compare classification performance between a global database comprised of all available sequences and a curated database that only includes sequences of fishes from the California Current Large Marine Ecosystem. We demonstrate that the regional database provides higher assignment accuracy than the comprehensive global database. We also document a tradeoff between accuracy and misclassification across a range of taxonomic cutoff scores, highlighting the importance of parameter selection for taxonomic classification. Furthermore, we compared assignment accuracy with and without the inclusion of additionally generated reference sequences. To this end, we sequenced tissue from 597 species using the MiFish 12S primers, adding 252 species to GenBank's existing 550 California Current Large Marine Ecosystem fish sequences. We then compared species and reads identified from seawater environmental DNA samples using global databases with and without our generated references, and the regional database. The addition of new references allowed for the identification of 16 additional native taxa representing 17.0% of total reads from eDNA samples, including species with vast ecological and economic value. Together these results demonstrate the importance of comprehensive and curated reference databases for effective metabarcoding and the need for locus-specific validation efforts.
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- Zachary Gold
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Ocean Chemistry and Ecosystems Division, Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Stationed at Southwest Fisheries Science Center, La Jolla, California, USA
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- Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA
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- Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA
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- Southwest Fisheries Science Center, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, La Jolla, California, USA
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- Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA
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- Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA
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- Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA
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- Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
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Braje TJ, Bentz L. Bills of Fare, Consumer Demand, Social Status, Ethnicity, and the Collapse of California Abalone. J ETHNOBIOL 2021. [DOI: 10.2993/0278-0771-41.2.277] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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- Todd J. Braje
- San Diego State University, Department of Anthropology, 5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, CA 92182-6040
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- Chinese Historical Society of Southern California, 411 Bernard Street, Los Angeles, CA. 90012
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Island Colonization and Environmental Sustainability in the Postglacial Mediterranean. SUSTAINABILITY 2021. [DOI: 10.3390/su13063383] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Island environments present challenges to human colonization, but we have a poor understanding of how environmental difference drives heterogeneous patterns of insular settlement. In this paper, we assess which environmental and geographic variables positively or negatively affect the long-term sustainability of human settlement on islands. Using the postglacial Mediterranean basin as a case study, we assess the impact of area, isolation index, species richness, and net primary productivity (NPP) on patterns of island occupation for both hunter-gatherer and agropastoral populations. We find that models involving area most effectively accounts for sustainability in hunter-gatherer island settlement. The agropastoral data are noisier, perhaps due to culturally specific factors responsible for the distribution of the data; nonetheless, we show that area and NPP exert profound influence over sustainability of agropastoral island settlement. We conclude by suggesting that this relates to the capacity of these variables to impact demographic robusticity directly.
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Guiry EJ, Hunt BPV. Integrating fish scale and bone isotopic compositions for 'deep time' retrospective studies. MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 2020; 160:104982. [PMID: 32907720 DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2020.104982] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2020] [Revised: 03/27/2020] [Accepted: 04/01/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Isotopic studies of archived fish scales have tremendous potential to develop long-term retrospectives that provide important insights into how humans have altered aquatic ecosystems. However, fish specimens in museum archives and other repositories typically date to time periods when the impacts of industrial societies may have already caused profound environmental changes. Archaeological fish bones offer an opportunity to bridge this key temporal gap by providing samples spanning from the recent past to as far back as the Pleistocene. Collagen is the primary protein component of both fish scale and bone, but the comparability of isotopic compositions from these tissues has not been established experimentally. To lay the framework for integrating isotopic datasets from these tissues, we compare δ13C and δ15N of bone and scale collagen, as well as other tissues, from fish with life-time controlled diets. Results show that while there is no difference in δ13C between scale and bone collagen, there may be a very slight but meaningful inter-tissue offset in δ15N (<0.3‰). We discuss potential sources of δ15N variation in scale and bone collagen measurements. Because there is no difference in scale and bone δ13C, and the observed offset in δ15N is very small (less than analytical uncertainty in many studies), our findings demonstrate that collagen isotopic compositions from these tissues should be directly comparable when integrating datasets from modern and ancient samples to build more powerful, millennium-scale isotopic times series. In linking isotopic compositions of collagen from modern, historical (scales), and archaeological (bones) fish, our findings open the way for more nuanced contextualization of how ecosystems functioned prior to large-scale exploitation and how they have responded to mounting anthropogenic pressures in the intervening centuries.
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- Eric J Guiry
- Department of Anthropology, Trent University, 1600 West Bank Drive, Peterborough, ON, K9L 0G2, Canada; School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, LE17RH, UK; Department of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, 6306 NW Marine Drive, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z1, Canada.
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- Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, University of British Columbia, Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory, 2202 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, Canada; Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, University of British Columbia, 2020 - 2207 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, Canada; Hakai Institute, PO Box 309, Heriot Bay, BC, V0P 1H0, Canada
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Guiry EJ, Szpak P. Quality control for modern bone collagen stable carbon and nitrogen isotope measurements. Methods Ecol Evol 2020. [DOI: 10.1111/2041-210x.13433] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Eric J. Guiry
- Department of Anthropology Trent University Peterborough ON Canada
- School of Archaeology and Ancient History University of Leicester Leicester UK
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- Department of Anthropology Trent University Peterborough ON Canada
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Bas M, Salemme M, Green EJ, Santiago F, Speller C, Álvarez M, Briz I Godino I, Cardona L. Predicting habitat use by the Argentine hake Merluccius hubbsi in a warmer world: inferences from the Middle Holocene. Oecologia 2020; 193:461-474. [PMID: 32424465 DOI: 10.1007/s00442-020-04667-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2019] [Accepted: 05/06/2020] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Fish skeletal remains recovered from two archaeological sites dated in the Middle Holocene of Tierra del Fuego (Argentina) were analysed to describe habitat use patterns by hake in the past and predict changes in a warmer world. Mitochondrial DNA was successfully extracted and amplified from 42 out of 45 first vertebra from ancient hake and phylogenetic analysis assigned all haplotypes to Argentine hake (Merluccius hubbsi). According to osteometry, the Argentine hake recovered from the archaeological site were likely adults ranging 37.2-58.1 cm in standard length. C and N stable isotope analysis showed that currently Argentine hake use foraging grounds deeper than those of Patagonian blenny and pink cusk-eel. Argentine hake, however, had a much broader isotopic niche during the Middle Holocene, when a large part of the population foraged much shallower than contemporary pink cusk-eel. The overall evidence suggests the presence of large numbers of Argentine hake onshore Tierra del Fuego during the Middle Holocene, which allowed exploitation by hunter-gatherer-fisher groups devoid of fishing technology. Interestingly, average SST off Tierra del Fuego during the Middle Holocene was higher than currently (11 °C vs 7 °C) and matched SST in the current southernmost onshore spawning aggregations, at latitude 47 °S. This indicates that increasing SST resulting from global warming will likely result into an increased abundance of adult Argentine hake onshore Tierra del Fuego, as during the Middle Holocene. Furthermore, stable isotope ratios from mollusc shells confirmed a much higher marine primary productivity during the Middle Holocene off Tierra del Fuego.
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- Maria Bas
- Centro Austral de Investigaciones Científicas (CADIC-CONICET), Ushuaia, Argentina. .,Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Science, Biodiversity Research Institute (IRBio), University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
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- Centro Austral de Investigaciones Científicas (CADIC-CONICET), Ushuaia, Argentina.,ICSE, Universidad Nacional de Tierra del Fuego, Ushuaia, Argentina
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- Centro Austral de Investigaciones Científicas (CADIC-CONICET), Ushuaia, Argentina
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- Department of Archaeology, BioArCh, University of York, York, UK.,Department of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Centro Austral de Investigaciones Científicas (CADIC-CONICET), Ushuaia, Argentina
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- Centro Austral de Investigaciones Científicas (CADIC-CONICET), Ushuaia, Argentina.,Department of Archaeology, University of York, York, UK.,P. Rockefeller Visiting Scholar, DRCLAS at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Science, Biodiversity Research Institute (IRBio), University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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Guiry E. Complexities of Stable Carbon and Nitrogen Isotope Biogeochemistry in Ancient Freshwater Ecosystems: Implications for the Study of Past Subsistence and Environmental Change. Front Ecol Evol 2019. [DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2019.00313] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Bas M, Briz I Godino I, Álvarez M, Vales DG, Crespo EA, Cardona L. Back to the future? Late Holocene marine food web structure in a warm climatic phase as a predictor of trophodynamics in a warmer South-Western Atlantic Ocean. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY 2019; 25:404-419. [PMID: 30430698 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.14523] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2018] [Revised: 10/30/2018] [Accepted: 11/04/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios in the skeletal elements of both ancient and modern marine species from the Beagle Channel were used to compare the structure of Late Holocene and modern food webs, and predict potential changes as a result of a Sea Surface Temperature (SST) increase in the region. Complementary, ancient and modern shells of limpets and mussels were isotopically analysed to explore changes in the isotopic baseline and compare marine food webs through time after an appropriate correction for baseline shifts. Results confirmed a declining pattern of marine primary productivity during the Late Holocene in the Beagle Channel. In general, the isotopic niches overlapped largely in the ancient food web in comparison to the current marine one, with the exception of that of cormorants (Phalacrocorax sp.). Our data suggest that all the species that have undergone intense human exploitation (Arctocephalus australis, Otaria flavescens and Merluccius sp.) significantly increased their trophic levels. The most important finding of this work was the very high isotopic overlap between snoek (Thyrsites atun) and hake (Merluccius sp.) during the Late Holocene. Increasing SST as a result of global warming could favour the recolonization of the southern South-Western Atlantic Ocean by snoek from the South-Eastern Pacific Ocean, with a potential impact on the landings of the economically important Argentine and Austral hake. These findings highlight the relevance of using zooarchaeological remains for providing predictions about marine food webs changes in the near future.
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- Maria Bas
- Centro Austral de Investigaciones Científicas (CADIC-CONICET), Ushuaia, Argentina
- Biodiversity Research Institute (IRBio), University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Centro Austral de Investigaciones Científicas (CADIC-CONICET), Ushuaia, Argentina
- Department of Archaeology, University of York, York, UK
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- Centro Austral de Investigaciones Científicas (CADIC-CONICET), Ushuaia, Argentina
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- Centro para el Estudio de Sistemas Marinos (CESIMAR - CCT CONICET - CENPAT), Puerto Madryn, Argentina
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- Centro para el Estudio de Sistemas Marinos (CESIMAR - CCT CONICET - CENPAT), Puerto Madryn, Argentina
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- Biodiversity Research Institute (IRBio), University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Science, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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Lee LC, Thorley J, Watson J, Reid M, Salomon AK. Diverse knowledge systems reveal social–ecological dynamics that inform species conservation status. Conserv Lett 2018. [DOI: 10.1111/conl.12613] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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- Lynn Chi Lee
- School of Resource and Environmental Management Simon Fraser University Burnaby British Columbia Canada
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- Poisson Consulting Ltd. Nelson British Columbia Canada
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- Biology Department Vancouver Island University Nanaimo British Columbia Canada
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- Heiltsuk Integrated Resource Management Department Bella Bella British Columbia Canada
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- School of Resource and Environmental Management Simon Fraser University Burnaby British Columbia Canada
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Gleason MG, Caselle JE, Caldow C, Galipeau R, Heady W, Laverty C, Little A, Mazurkiewicz D, O'Byrne E, Rosen D, Whitaker S. Horizon Scanning: Survey and Research Priorities for Coastal and Marine Systems of the Northern Channel Islands, California. WEST N AM NATURALIST 2018. [DOI: 10.3398/064.078.0425] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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- Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary, University of California, Santa Barbara, Ocean Science Education Building 514, MC 6155, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-6155
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- Channel Islands National Park, 1901 Spinnaker Dr., Ventura, CA 93001
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- The Nature Conservancy, 201 Mission St., San Francisco, CA
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- Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90007
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- United States Fish and Wildlife Service, 1901 Spinnaker Dr., Ventura, CA 93001
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- The Nature Conservancy, 201 Mission St., San Francisco, CA
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- Marine Applied Research and Exploration, 1230 Brickyard Cove Rd. #101, Richmond, CA 94801
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- Channel Islands National Park, 1901 Spinnaker Dr., Ventura, CA 93001
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Bas M, Cardona L. Effects of skeletal element identity, delipidation and demineralization on the analysis of stable isotope ratios of C and N in fish bone. JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY 2018; 92:420-437. [PMID: 29235096 DOI: 10.1111/jfb.13521] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2017] [Accepted: 11/14/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Stable isotope ratios of C and N in the bone tissue of three different skeletal elements (angular, cleithrum and vertebra) of three fish species from different evolutionary lineages (Clupeiformes, Atheriniformes and Notothenioidei) were determined before (δ13 Cbulk and δ15 Nbulk ) and after demineralization and delipidation (δ13 Cdml and δ15 Ndml ). One of the species had cellular bone and the other two had acellular bone. Results revealed that δ15 N and δ13 C values from different skeletal elements were interchangeable in species with acellular bone, but caution was needed in species with cellular bone, as δ15 N values varied among skeletal elements. Furthermore, δ15 Nbulk values were significantly lower than δ15 Ndml values in the three species, thus suggesting that they are not comparable. This difference is probably because δ15 Nbulk refers to total bone protein and δ15 Ndml to collagen only.
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- M Bas
- Centro Austral de Investigaciones Científicas (CADIC-CONICET), C/Bernardo Houssay 200, 9410, Ushuaia, Argentina
- Biodiversity Research Institute (IRBio), University of Barcelona, Av. Diagonal 643, 08028, Barcelona, Spain
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- Biodiversity Research Institute (IRBio), University of Barcelona, Av. Diagonal 643, 08028, Barcelona, Spain
- Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Science, University of Barcelona, Av. Diagonal 643, 08028, Barcelona, Spain
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Rick TC, Braje TJ, Erlandson JM, Gill KM, Kirn L, Mclaren-Dewey L. Horizon Scanning: Survey and Research Priorities for Cultural, Historical, and Paleobiological Resources of Santa Cruz Island, California. WEST N AM NATURALIST 2018. [DOI: 10.3398/064.078.0424] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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- Torben C. Rick
- Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, MRC 112, Washington, DC 20013-7012
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- Department of Anthropology, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92182-6040
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- Museum of Natural and Cultural History, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403
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- Museum of Natural and Cultural History, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403
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- Channel Islands National Park, 1901 Spinnaker Dr., Ventura, CA 93001
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- University of California Natural Reserve System, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-6150
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Szpak P, Buckley M, Darwent CM, Richards MP. Long-term ecological changes in marine mammals driven by recent warming in northwestern Alaska. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY 2018; 24:490-503. [PMID: 28850766 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13880] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2017] [Revised: 08/07/2017] [Accepted: 08/12/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Carbon and nitrogen isotopes analyses were performed on marine mammal bone collagen from three archaeological sites (ad 1170-1813) on Cape Espenberg (Kotzebue Sound, northwestern Alaska) as well as modern animals harvested from the same area to examine long-term trends in foraging ecology and sea ice productivity. We observed significant and dramatic changes in ringed seal stable isotope values between the early 19th and early 21st centuries, likely due to changing sea ice productivity and reduced delivery of organic matter to the benthos driven by recent warming in the Arctic. These data highlight the importance of the archaeological record for providing a long-term perspective on environmental variation and interpreting recent changes driven by anthropogenic processes.
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- Paul Szpak
- Department of Anthropology, Trent University, Peterborough, ON, Canada
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- School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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Leppard TP. The Biophysical Effects of Neolithic Island Colonization: General Dynamics and Sociocultural Implications. HUMAN ECOLOGY: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL 2017; 45:555-568. [PMID: 29170588 PMCID: PMC5680384 DOI: 10.1007/s10745-017-9939-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Does anthropogenic environmental change constrain long-term sociopolitical outcomes? It is clear that human colonization of islands radically alters their biological and physical systems. Despite considerable contextual variability in local specificities of this alteration, I argue that these processes are to some extent regular, predictable, and have socio-political implications. Reviewing the data for post-colonization ecodynamics, I show that Neolithic colonization of previously insulated habitats drives biotic homogenization. I argue that we should expect such homogenization to promote regular types of change in biophysical systems, types of change that can be described in sum as environmentally convergent. Such convergence should have significant implications for human social organization over the long term, and general dynamics of this sort are relevant in the context of understanding remarkably similar social evolutionary trajectories towards wealth-inequality not only islands, but also more generally.
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- Thomas P. Leppard
- McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3ER UK
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