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Carrión-Paladines V, Correa-Quezada L, Valdiviezo Malo H, Zurita Ruáles J, Pereddo Tumbaco A, Zambrano Pisco M, Lucio Panchi N, Jiménez Álvarez L, Benítez Á, Loján-Córdova J. Exploring the ethnobiological practices of fire in three natural regions of Ecuador, through the integration of traditional knowledge and scientific approaches. JOURNAL OF ETHNOBIOLOGY AND ETHNOMEDICINE 2024; 20:60. [PMID: 38845008 PMCID: PMC11155166 DOI: 10.1186/s13002-024-00699-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2024] [Accepted: 05/29/2024] [Indexed: 06/10/2024]
Abstract
This study examines the convergence between traditional and scientific knowledge regarding the use of fire and its potential to trigger wildfires, with possible impacts on ecosystems and human well-being. The research encompasses three distinct natural regions of Ecuador: the coast, the highlands, and the Amazon. Data on traditional fire use were collected through semi-structured interviews with 791 members from five local communities. These data were compared with climatic variables (rainfall (mm), relative humidity (%), wind speed (km/h), and wind direction) to understand the climatic conditions conducive to wildfires and their relationship with human perceptions. Furthermore, the severity of fires over the past 4 years (2019-2022) was assessed using remote sensing methods, employing the Normalized Burn Ratio (NBR) and the difference between pre-fire and post-fire conditions (NBR Pre-fire-NBR Post-fire). The results revealed a significant alignment between traditional knowledge, climatic data, and many fires, which were of low severity, suggesting potential benefits for ecosystems. These findings not only enable the identification of optimal techniques and timing for traditional burns but also contribute to human well-being by maintaining a harmonious balance between communities and their environment. Additionally, they provide valuable insights for the development of more inclusive and effective integrated fire management strategies in these natural areas of Ecuador.
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- Vinicio Carrión-Paladines
- Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas y Agropecuarias, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, San Cayetano Alto S/N, C.P. 11 01 608, Loja, Ecuador.
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- Departamento de Ciencias Jurídicas, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, San Cayetano Alto S/N, Loja, 1101608, Ecuador
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- Licenciatura en Gestión Ambiental, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, San Cayetano Alto S/N, Loja, 1101608, Ecuador
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- Licenciatura en Gestión Ambiental, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, San Cayetano Alto S/N, Loja, 1101608, Ecuador
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- Licenciatura en Gestión Ambiental, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, San Cayetano Alto S/N, Loja, 1101608, Ecuador
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- Licenciatura en Gestión Ambiental, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, San Cayetano Alto S/N, Loja, 1101608, Ecuador
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- Licenciatura en Gestión Ambiental, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, San Cayetano Alto S/N, Loja, 1101608, Ecuador
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- Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas y Agropecuarias, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, San Cayetano Alto S/N, C.P. 11 01 608, Loja, Ecuador
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- Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas y Agropecuarias, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, San Cayetano Alto S/N, C.P. 11 01 608, Loja, Ecuador
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- Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas y Agropecuarias, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, San Cayetano Alto S/N, C.P. 11 01 608, Loja, Ecuador
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Witteveen NH, White C, Sánchez-Martínez BA, Philip A, Boyd F, Booij R, Christ R, Singh S, Gosling WD, Piperno DR, McMichael CNH. Pre-contact and post-colonial ecological legacies shape Surinamese rainforests. Ecology 2024; 105:e4272. [PMID: 38590101 DOI: 10.1002/ecy.4272] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2023] [Revised: 11/30/2023] [Accepted: 01/22/2024] [Indexed: 04/10/2024]
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Disturbances in tropical forests can have long-lasting ecological impacts, but their manifestations (ecological legacies) in modern forests are uncertain. Many Amazonian forests bear the mark of past soil modifications, species enrichments, and fire events, but the trajectories of ecological legacies from the pre-contact or post-colonial period remain relatively unexplored. We assessed the fire and vegetation history from 15 soil cores ranging from 0 to 10 km from a post-colonial Surinamese archaeological site. We show that (1) fires occurred from 96 bc to recent times and induced significant vegetation change, (2) persistent ecological legacies from pre-contact and post-colonial fire and deforestation practices were mainly within 1 km of the archaeological site, and (3) palm enrichment of Attalea, Oenocarpus and Astrocaryum occurred within 0, 1, and 8 km of the archaeological site, respectively. Our results challenge the notion of spatially extensive and persistent ecological legacies. Instead, our data indicate that the persistence and extent of ecological legacies are dependent on their timing, frequency, type, and intensity. Examining the mechanisms and manifestations of ecological legacies is crucial in assessing forest resilience and Indigenous and local land rights in the highly threatened Amazonian forests.
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- Nina H Witteveen
- Department of Ecosystem and Landscape Dynamics, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Department of History, Faculty of Humanities, Anton de Kom University, Paramaribo, Suriname
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- Department of Ecosystem and Landscape Dynamics, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Department of Ecosystem and Landscape Dynamics, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Department of Ecosystem and Landscape Dynamics, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Department of Ecosystem and Landscape Dynamics, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Department of Ecosystem and Landscape Dynamics, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Department of History, Faculty of Humanities, Anton de Kom University, Paramaribo, Suriname
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- Department of Ecosystem and Landscape Dynamics, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Department of Anthropology, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, USA
- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Ancon, Panama
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- Department of Ecosystem and Landscape Dynamics, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Levis C, Flores BM, Campos-Silva JV, Peroni N, Staal A, Padgurschi MCG, Dorshow W, Moraes B, Schmidt M, Kuikuro TW, Kuikuro H, Wauja K, Kuikuro K, Kuikuro A, Fausto C, Franchetto B, Watling J, Lima H, Heckenberger M, Clement CR. Contributions of human cultures to biodiversity and ecosystem conservation. Nat Ecol Evol 2024; 8:866-879. [PMID: 38503867 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-024-02356-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2022] [Accepted: 02/05/2024] [Indexed: 03/21/2024]
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The expansion of globalized industrial societies is causing global warming, ecosystem degradation, and species and language extinctions worldwide. Mainstream conservation efforts still focus on nature protection strategies to revert this crisis, often overlooking the essential roles of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IP&LC) in protecting biodiversity and ecosystems globally. Here we assess the scientific literature to identify relationships between biodiversity (including ecosystem diversity) and cultural diversity, and investigate how these connections may affect conservation outcomes in tropical lowland South America. Our assessment reveals a network of interactions and feedbacks between biodiversity and diverse IP&LC, suggesting interconnectedness and interdependencies from which multiple benefits to nature and societies emerge. We illustrate our findings with five case studies of successful conservation models, described as consolidated or promising 'social-ecological hope spots', that show how engagement with IP&LC of various cultures may be the best hope for biodiversity and ecosystem conservation, particularly when aligned with science and technology. In light of these five inspiring cases, we argue that conservation science and policies need to recognize that protecting and promoting both biological and cultural diversities can provide additional co-benefits and solutions to maintain ecosystems resilient in the face of global changes.
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- Carolina Levis
- Programa de Pós-graduação em Ecologia, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil.
- Affiliated scholar, Brazil LAB, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.
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- Programa de Pós-graduação em Ecologia, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil
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- Instituto Juruá, Manaus, Brazil
- Instituto de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Maceió, Brazil
- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-graduação em Ecologia, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil
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- Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, Brazil
- Centro de Pesquisas Meteorológicas e Climáticas aplicadas à Agricultura, University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil
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- Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA
- Earth Analytic, Puente Institute, Santa Fe, NM, USA
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- Earth Analytic, Puente Institute, Santa Fe, NM, USA
- Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Belém, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Estudos Interdisciplinares em Arqueologia, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil
- Department of Anthropology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
- Department of Earth Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Associação Indígena Kuikuro do Alto Xingu, Aldeia Ipatse, Território Indígena do Alto Xingu, Canarana and Gaúcha do Norte, Mato Grosso, Brazil
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- Associação Indígena Kuikuro do Alto Xingu, Aldeia Ipatse, Território Indígena do Alto Xingu, Canarana and Gaúcha do Norte, Mato Grosso, Brazil
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- Associação Indígena Kuikuro do Alto Xingu, Aldeia Ipatse, Território Indígena do Alto Xingu, Canarana and Gaúcha do Norte, Mato Grosso, Brazil
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- Associação Indígena Kuikuro do Alto Xingu, Aldeia Ipatse, Território Indígena do Alto Xingu, Canarana and Gaúcha do Norte, Mato Grosso, Brazil
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- Associação Indígena Kuikuro do Alto Xingu, Aldeia Ipatse, Território Indígena do Alto Xingu, Canarana and Gaúcha do Norte, Mato Grosso, Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Antropologia Social, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Visiting Research Scholar, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, Brazil LAB, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Antropologia Social, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Instituto de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Maceió, Brazil
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Silva LNR, Oliveira ECP, Baratto LC. Amazonian useful plants described in the book "Le Pays des Amazones" (1885) of the Brazilian propagandist Baron de Santa-Anna Nery: a historical and ethnobotanical perspective. JOURNAL OF ETHNOBIOLOGY AND ETHNOMEDICINE 2024; 20:26. [PMID: 38409064 PMCID: PMC10897987 DOI: 10.1186/s13002-024-00663-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2023] [Accepted: 02/13/2024] [Indexed: 02/28/2024]
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BACKGROUND Frederico José de Santa-Anna Nery (1848-1901) was a Brazilian Baron who referred to himself as a "volunteer propagandist" for Brazil in Europe, serving as an immigration agent to publicize the living conditions in the Amazon region, advocating for its development and modernization at the end of the nineteenth century. Santa-Anna Nery's most famous book is "Le Pays des Amazones" (The Lands of the Amazons), first published in 1885, which the author dedicated a chapter to introduce and report on the Amazonian useful plant species and its relationship with humans. The aim of this work is to understand the historical context and ethnobotanical value of the plant species in the Brazilian Amazon at the end of the nineteenth century through an analysis of the book "Le Pays des Amazones" (1885) by Baron de Santa-Anna Nery, as well as to bring to light the historical importance of this very influential propagandist, who has been forgotten nowadays. METHODS The original book "Le Pays des Amazones" (1885), as well as the original 3rd edition and its translated version into Portuguese, was carefully analyzed and all information about plants was systematized, with botanical names being updated. Finally, using the scientific name of medicinal plants alone or in combination with their traditional use, a search was carried out in databases in order to indicate current pharmacological studies that provide evidence about the described traditional uses. RESULTS A total of 156 plant species were identified in the book, although 132 species had their scientific names updated. These species belong to 45 different families, with Fabaceae and Arecaceae the most represented, and 109 plants are Brazilian native. Considering only the 36 medicinal plants, the main medicinal indications reported were astringent, purgative/laxative, stimulant and tonic, vermifuge, febrifuge, sudorific, emetic, diuretic and antidysenteric. Regarding other useful plants (non-medicinal), 97 species were cited for food, constructions and buildings, spices and condiments, ornaments and objects, carpentry, textile fibers, gums, oils, balms and essences, pigments and tanning, hunting and fishing. CONCLUSIONS When the book "Le Pays des Amazones" is analyzed from a timeless perspective, with a particular focus on historical ethnobotany, it is possible to observe the economic, social, and political importance of many useful plants for the Amazon at the end of the nineteenth century and how the relationship between local people, indigenous communities, and immigrants was established with plant biodiversity.
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- Lucas N R Silva
- Laboratory of Medicinal Plant Biotechnology, Post-Graduate Program in Biosciences, Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará (UFOPA), Santarém, Pará (PA), Brazil
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- Laboratory of Medicinal Plant Biotechnology, Post-Graduate Program in Biosciences, Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará (UFOPA), Santarém, Pará (PA), Brazil
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- Laboratory of Applied Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro (RJ), Brazil.
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da Silva Souza DA, da Bandeira DR, Peroni N. Yams (Dioscorea spp.) in shellmounds and swiddens: ancient history in Babitonga Bay, Santa Catarina State, southern Brazil. JOURNAL OF ETHNOBIOLOGY AND ETHNOMEDICINE 2024; 20:13. [PMID: 38308263 PMCID: PMC10836009 DOI: 10.1186/s13002-024-00653-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2023] [Accepted: 01/15/2024] [Indexed: 02/04/2024]
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BACKGROUND In Babitonga Bay, southern Brazil, records of yam consumption exist among shellmound builders from at least 4000 years ago. Shellmounds (sambaquis) are anthropogenic structures in the form of mounds with layers of shells associated with other faunal remains, as well as with charcoal, artefacts and burial. Larger sambaquis are considered to be funerary monuments. The indigenous Jê and Guarani people also lived in the region before the European invasion and cultivated yams. Currently, exotic and domesticated yams are cultivated in the region by farmers. Our aim is to describe the long-term history between the people and Dioscorea in the Babitonga Bay region based on its consumption and occurrence in shellmounds and swiddens. METHODS Surveys of Dioscorea spp. and host were carried out in the vegetation of shellmounds and in the surrounding area using visual detection through intensive searches in transects using the walking method. The survey of Dioscorea species used and cultivated in the precolonial, colonial and current periods was carried out based on the literature. In the present study, only Dioscorea trifida cultivations were recorded. RESULTS Dioscorea cayennensis, Dioscorea chondrocarpa, Dioscorea dodecaneura, Dioscorea laxiflora, Dioscorea olfersiana, and Dioscorea scabra, all recorded in associated vegetation of shellmounds, in different combinations of the species. In swiddens, D. trifida is most common, followed by Dioscorea alata and, to a lesser extent, Dioscorea bulbifera and D. cayennensis. Records of food use prevail, but they are used as medicinal plants. Yams are integrated on anthropogenic soils of shellmounds and in swiddens in monoculture systems or in intercropping with Zea mays or Colocasia esculenta. The presence of exotic food trees and D. cayennensis in some shellmounds indicates the influence of colonizers on the composition of the vegetation. In sambaquis, there are overlapping processes of construction of cultural niches by different human groups at different times. CONCLUSIONS The sambaquis and the associated vegetation and swiddens form part of a domesticated landscape. The native species of Dioscorea recorded in shellmounds and surrounding vegetation do not depend on human action to perpetuate themselves in the environment. However, this does not rule out human influence in the past, but it does not indicate horticulture among the Sambaquianos. Greater investment in genetic, archaeobotanical and ethnobotanical research can contribute to a better understanding of the relationship between people and yams over thousands of years.
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- Dalzemira Anselmo da Silva Souza
- Graduate Program in Biology of Fungi, Algae and Plants, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil.
- Museu Arqueológico de Sambaqui de Joinville, Joinville, Santa Catarina, Brazil.
- Laboratory of Human Ecology and Ethnobotany, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil.
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- Museu Arqueológico de Sambaqui de Joinville, Joinville, Santa Catarina, Brazil
- Graduate Program in Cultural Heritage and Society, Universidade da Região de Joinville, Joinville, Santa Catarina, Brazil
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- Graduate Program in Biology of Fungi, Algae and Plants, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil
- Laboratory of Human Ecology and Ethnobotany, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil
- Graduate Program in Ecology, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil
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Qin SY, Zuo ZY, Xu SX, Liu J, Yang FM, Luo YH, Ye JW, Zhao Y, Rong J, Liu B, Ma PF, Li DZ. Anthropogenic disturbance driving population decline of a dominant tree in East Asia evergreen broadleaved forests over the last 11,000 years. CONSERVATION BIOLOGY : THE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR CONSERVATION BIOLOGY 2024; 38:e14180. [PMID: 37700668 DOI: 10.1111/cobi.14180] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2023] [Revised: 05/09/2023] [Accepted: 06/12/2023] [Indexed: 09/14/2023]
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Current biodiversity loss is generally considered to have been caused by anthropogenic disturbance, but it is unclear when anthropogenic activities began to affect biodiversity loss. One hypothesis suggests it began with the Industrial Revolution, whereas others propose that anthropogenic disturbance has been associated with biodiversity decline since the early Holocene. To test these hypotheses, we examined the unique vegetation of evergreen broadleaved forests (EBLFs) in East Asia, where humans have affected landscapes since the early Holocene. We adopted a genomic approach to infer the demographic history of a dominant tree (Litsea elongata) of EBLFs. We used Holocene temperature and anthropogenic disturbance factors to calculate the correlation between these variables and the historical effective population size of L. elongata with Spearman statistics and integrated the maximum-entropy niche model to determine the impact of climate change and anthropogenic disturbance on fluctuation in its effective population size. We identified 9 well-defined geographic clades for the populations of L. elongata. Based on the estimated historical population sizes of these clades, all the populations contracted, indicating persistent population decline over the last 11,000 years. Demographic history of L. elongata and human population change, change in cropland use, and change in irrigated rice area were significantly negatively correlated, whereas climate change in the Holocene was not correlated with demographic history. Our results support the early human impact hypothesis and provide comprehensive evidence that early anthropogenic disturbance may contribute to the current biodiversity crisis in East Asia.
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- Sheng-Yuan Qin
- Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
- Kunming College of Life Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
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- Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
- Kunming College of Life Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
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- Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
- Kunming College of Life Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
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- Kunming College of Life Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
- CAS Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
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- Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
- Key Laboratory for Forest Resources Conservation and Utilization in the Southwest Mountains of China, Ministry of Education, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming, China
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- Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Watershed Ecosystem Change and Biodiversity, Center for Watershed Ecology, Institute of Life Science and School of Life Sciences, Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
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- Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Watershed Ecosystem Change and Biodiversity, Center for Watershed Ecology, Institute of Life Science and School of Life Sciences, Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- Sino-African Joint Research Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
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- Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
- Kunming College of Life Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
- CAS Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
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Flores BM, Montoya E, Sakschewski B, Nascimento N, Staal A, Betts RA, Levis C, Lapola DM, Esquível-Muelbert A, Jakovac C, Nobre CA, Oliveira RS, Borma LS, Nian D, Boers N, Hecht SB, Ter Steege H, Arieira J, Lucas IL, Berenguer E, Marengo JA, Gatti LV, Mattos CRC, Hirota M. Critical transitions in the Amazon forest system. Nature 2024; 626:555-564. [PMID: 38356065 PMCID: PMC10866695 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-06970-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2022] [Accepted: 12/13/2023] [Indexed: 02/16/2024]
Abstract
The possibility that the Amazon forest system could soon reach a tipping point, inducing large-scale collapse, has raised global concern1-3. For 65 million years, Amazonian forests remained relatively resilient to climatic variability. Now, the region is increasingly exposed to unprecedented stress from warming temperatures, extreme droughts, deforestation and fires, even in central and remote parts of the system1. Long existing feedbacks between the forest and environmental conditions are being replaced by novel feedbacks that modify ecosystem resilience, increasing the risk of critical transition. Here we analyse existing evidence for five major drivers of water stress on Amazonian forests, as well as potential critical thresholds of those drivers that, if crossed, could trigger local, regional or even biome-wide forest collapse. By combining spatial information on various disturbances, we estimate that by 2050, 10% to 47% of Amazonian forests will be exposed to compounding disturbances that may trigger unexpected ecosystem transitions and potentially exacerbate regional climate change. Using examples of disturbed forests across the Amazon, we identify the three most plausible ecosystem trajectories, involving different feedbacks and environmental conditions. We discuss how the inherent complexity of the Amazon adds uncertainty about future dynamics, but also reveals opportunities for action. Keeping the Amazon forest resilient in the Anthropocene will depend on a combination of local efforts to end deforestation and degradation and to expand restoration, with global efforts to stop greenhouse gas emissions.
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- Bernardo M Flores
- Graduate Program in Ecology, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, Brazil.
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- Geosciences Barcelona, Spanish National Research Council, Barcelona, Spain
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- Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Member of the Leibniz Association, Potsdam, Germany
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- Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, UK
- Global Systems Institute, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
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- Graduate Program in Ecology, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, Brazil
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- Center for Meteorological and Climatic Research Applied to Agriculture, University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil
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- School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
- Birmingham Institute of Forest Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
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- Department of Plant Sciences, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, Brazil
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- Institute of Advanced Studies, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Plant Biology, University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil
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- Division of Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerabilities (DIIAV), National Institute for Space Research, São José dos Campos, Brazil
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- Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Member of the Leibniz Association, Potsdam, Germany
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- Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Member of the Leibniz Association, Potsdam, Germany
- Earth System Modelling, School of Engineering and Design, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Luskin School for Public Affairs and Institute of the Environment, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
- Quantitative Biodiversity Dynamics, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Science Panel for the Amazon (SPA), São José dos Campos, Brazil
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- Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Centro Nacional de Monitoramento e Alerta de Desastres Naturais, São José dos Campos, Brazil
- Graduate Program in Natural Disasters, UNESP/CEMADEN, São José dos Campos, Brazil
- Graduate School of International Studies, Korea University, Seoul, Korea
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- Division of Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerabilities (DIIAV), National Institute for Space Research, São José dos Campos, Brazil
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- Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
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- Graduate Program in Ecology, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, Brazil.
- Department of Plant Biology, University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil.
- Group IpES, Department of Physics, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, Brazil.
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Bergallo HG, Rosa C, Ochoa AC, Manzatto AG, Guimaraes AF, Banhos A, Castilho CV, Barros CF, Norris D, Drucker DP, Rodrigues DJ, Baccaro FB, Lourenço IH, Zuanon J, Stegmann LF, Anjos MR, Silveira M, Araújo PSG, Bobrowiec PED, Fadini R, Neckel-Oliveira S, Emilio T, Santorelli Junior S, Magnusson WE. Long-term Ecological Research: Chasing fashions or being prepared for fashion changes? AN ACAD BRAS CIENC 2023; 95:e20230051. [PMID: 37878914 DOI: 10.1590/0001-3765202320230051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2023] [Accepted: 05/28/2023] [Indexed: 10/27/2023] Open
Abstract
Long-term-ecological-research (LTER) faces many challenges, including the difficulty of obtaining long-term funding, changes in research questions and sampling designs, keeping researchers collecting standardized data for many years, impediments to interactions with local people, and the difficulty of integrating the needs of local decision makers with "big science". These issues result in a lack of universally accepted guidelines as to how research should be done and integrated among LTER sites. Here we discuss how the RAPELD (standardized field infrastructure system), can help deal with these issues as a complementary technique in LTER studies, allowing comparisons across landscapes and ecosystems and reducing sampling costs. RAPELD uses local surveys to understand broad spatial and temporal patterns while enhancing decision-making and training of researchers, local indigenous groups and traditional communities. Sampling of ecological data can be carried out by different researchers through standardized protocols, resulting in spatial data that can be used to answer temporal questions, and allow new questions to be investigated. Results can also be integrated into existing biodiversity networks. Integrated systems are the most efficient way to save resources, maximize results, and accumulate information that can be used in the face of the unknown unknowns upon which our future depends.
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- Helena G Bergallo
- Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Departamento de Ecologia, Rua São Francisco Xavier, 524, 20550-900 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
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- Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Av. André Araújo 2936, 69067-375 Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Universidad Nacional de San Luis, Departamento de Biología, Ejército de los Andes, 950, Capital, 5700 San Luis, Argentina
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- Universidade Federal de Rondônia, Departamento de Biologia, Campus, Rodovia BR 364, Km 9,5, Bairro Rural, 76801-059 Porto Velho, RO, Brazil
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- Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Av. André Araújo 2936, 69067-375 Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Centro de Ciências Exatas, Naturais e da Saúde, Departamento de Biologia, Alto Universitário, s/n, 29500-000 Alegre, ES, Brazil
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- Embrapa Roraima, Rodovia BR 174, Km 8, Caixa Postal 133, 69301-970 Boa Vista, RO, Brazil
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- Instituto de Pesquisas Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, Laboratório de Botânica Estrutural, Diretoria de Pesquisas, Rua Pacheco Leão, 915, 22460-030 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
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- Universidade Federal do Amapá, Coordenação de Ciências Ambientais, Ramal da UNIFAP, Km 02, 68903-758 Macapá, AP, Brazil
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- Embrapa Agricultura Digital, Av. André Tosello, nº 209, 13083-886 Campinas, SP, Brazil
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- Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Instituto de Ciências Naturais, Humanas e Sociais, Av. Alexandre Ferronato, 1200, 78550-728 Sinop, MT, Brazil
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- Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Departamento de Biologia, Av. Rodrigo Octavio Gen. Rodrigo Octávio, 6200, 69080-900 Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Laboratório de Ictiologia e Ordenamento Pesqueiro do Vale do Rio Madeira, Rua Vinte e Nove de Agosto, 786, 69800-000 Humaitá, AM, Brazil
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- Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Av. André Araújo 2936, 69067-375 Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária Amazônia Oriental, Tv. Dr. Enéas Pinheiro, s/n, 66095-903 Belém, PA, Brazil
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- Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Laboratório de Ictiologia e Ordenamento Pesqueiro do Vale do Rio Madeira, Rua Vinte e Nove de Agosto, 786, 69800-000 Humaitá, AM, Brazil
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- Universidade Federal do Acre, Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Natureza, BR 364, Km 4, 69920-900 Rio Branco, AC, Brazil
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- Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Av. André Araújo 2936, 69067-375 Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Av. André Araújo 2936, 69067-375 Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará, Laboratório de Ecologia e Conservação, Av. Vera Paz, s/n, 68040-255 Santarém, PA, Brazil
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- Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Departamento de Ecologia e Zoologia, Campus Universitário, s/n, 88040-970 Florianópolis, SC, Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Programa Nacional de Pós-Doutorado (PNPD), Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Biologia, P.O. Box 6109, 13083-000 Campinas, SP, Brazil
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- Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Instituto de Educação, Agricultura e Ambiente, Rua 29 de Agosto, 786, 69800-000 Humaitá, AM, Brazil
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- Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Av. André Araújo 2936, 69067-375 Manaus, AM, Brazil
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Conrado AC, Demetrio WC, Stanton DWG, Bartz MLC, James SW, Santos A, da Silva E, Ferreira T, Acioli ANS, Ferreira AC, Maia LS, Silva TAC, Lavelle P, Velasquez E, Tapia-Coral SC, Muniz AW, Segalla RF, Decaëns T, Nadolny HS, Peña-Venegas CP, Pasini A, de Oliveira Júnior RC, Kille P, Brown GG, Cunha L. Amazonian earthworm biodiversity is heavily impacted by ancient and recent human disturbance. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2023; 895:165087. [PMID: 37379924 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.165087] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2023] [Revised: 06/20/2023] [Accepted: 06/21/2023] [Indexed: 06/30/2023]
Abstract
Despite the importance of earthworms for soil formation, more is needed to know about how Pre-Columbian modifications to soils and the landscape. Gaining a deeper understanding is essential for comprehending the historical drivers of earthworm communities and the development of effective conservation strategies in the Amazon rainforest. Human disturbance can significantly impact earthworm diversity, especially in rainforest soils, and in the particular case of the Amazonian rainforest, both recent and ancient anthropic practices may be important. Amazonian Dark Earths (ADEs) are fertile soils found throughout the Amazon Basin, created by sedentary habits and intensification patterns of pre-Colombian societies primarily developed in the second part of the Holocene period. We have sampled earthworm communities in three Brazilian Amazonian (ADEs) and adjacent reference soils (REF) under old and young forests and monocultures. To better assess taxonomic richness, we used morphology and the barcode region of the COI gene to identify juveniles and cocoons and delimit Molecular Operational Taxonomic Units (MOTUs). Here we suggest using Integrated Operational Taxonomical units (IOTUs) which combine both morphological and molecular data and provide a more comprehensive assessment of diversity, while MOTUs only rely on molecular data. A total of 970 individuals were collected, resulting in 51 taxonomic units (IOTUs, MOTUs, and morphospecies combined). From this total, 24 taxonomic units were unique to REF soils, 17 to ADEs, and ten were shared between both soils. The highest richness was found in old forest sites for ADEs (12 taxonomic units) and REFs (21 taxonomic units). The beta-diversity calculations reveal a high species turnover between ADEs and REF soils, providing evidence that ADEs and REFs possess distinct soil biota. Furthermore, results suggest that ADE sites, formed by Pre-Columbian human activities, conserve a high number of native species in the landscape and maintain a high abundance, despite their long-term nature.
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- Ana C Conrado
- Biochemistry Department, Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, PR 81531-980, Brazil
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- Department of Soil Science, Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, PR 80035-050, Brazil
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- Centre for Functional Ecology, Associate Laboratory TERRA, Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, 3000-456 Coimbra, Portugal
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- Maharishi International University, Fairfield, IA 52557, United States
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- Department of Soil Science, Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, PR 80035-050, Brazil
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- Department of Soil Science, Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, PR 80035-050, Brazil
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- Federal University of Amazonas, Manaus, AM 69067-005, Brazil
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- Entomology Department, Federal University of Paraná, 81530-900 Curitiba, PR, Brazil
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- Department of Soil Science, Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, PR 80035-050, Brazil
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- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, AM 69067-375, Brazil
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- Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Cali 763537, Colombia
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- Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Palmira 32 #12-00, Colombia
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- Entomology Department, Federal University of Paraná, 81530-900 Curitiba, PR, Brazil; Embrapa Amazônia Ocidental, Manaus, AM 69010-970, Brazil
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- Department of Soil Science, Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, PR 80035-050, Brazil
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- CEFE, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Montpellier, France
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- Department of Soil Science, Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, PR 80035-050, Brazil
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- Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Londrina, PR 86057-970, Brazil
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- Cardiff University, Cardiff CF103AT, United Kingdom
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- Department of Soil Science, Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, PR 80035-050, Brazil; Embrapa Florestas, Colombo, PR 83411-000, Brazil
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- Centre for Functional Ecology, Associate Laboratory TERRA, Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, 3000-456 Coimbra, Portugal; School of Applied Sciences, University of South Wales, Pontypridd CF374BD, United Kingdom.
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Peripato V, Levis C, Moreira GA, Gamerman D, Ter Steege H, Pitman NCA, de Souza JG, Iriarte J, Robinson M, Junqueira AB, Trindade TB, de Almeida FO, Moraes CDP, Lombardo U, Tamanaha EK, Maezumi SY, Ometto JPHB, Braga JRG, Campanharo WA, Cassol HLG, Leal PR, de Assis MLR, da Silva AM, Phillips OL, Costa FRC, Flores BM, Hoffman B, Henkel TW, Umaña MN, Magnusson WE, Valderrama Sandoval EH, Barlow J, Milliken W, Lopes MA, Simon MF, van Andel TR, Laurance SGW, Laurance WF, Torres-Lezama A, Assis RL, Molino JF, Mestre M, Hamblin M, Coelho LDS, Lima Filho DDA, Wittmann F, Salomão RP, Amaral IL, Guevara JE, de Almeida Matos FD, Castilho CV, Carim MDJV, Cárdenas López D, Sabatier D, Irume MV, Martins MP, Guimarães JRDS, Bánki OS, Piedade MTF, Ramos JF, Luize BG, Novo EMMDL, Núñez Vargas P, Silva TSF, Venticinque EM, Manzatto AG, Reis NFC, Terborgh J, Casula KR, Demarchi LO, Honorio Coronado EN, Monteagudo Mendoza A, Montero JC, Schöngart J, Feldpausch TR, Quaresma AC, Aymard C GA, Baraloto C, Castaño Arboleda N, Engel J, Petronelli P, Zartman CE, Killeen TJ, Marimon BS, Marimon-Junior BH, Schietti J, Sousa TR, Vasquez R, Rincón LM, Berenguer E, Ferreira J, Mostacedo B, do Amaral DD, Castellanos H, de Medeiros MB, Andrade A, Camargo JL, Farias EDS, Magalhães JLL, Mendonça Nascimento HE, de Queiroz HL, Brienen R, Cardenas Revilla JD, Stevenson PR, Araujo-Murakami A, Barçante Ladvocat Cintra B, Feitosa YO, Barbosa FR, Carpanedo RDS, Duivenvoorden JF, de Noronha JDC, Rodrigues DDJ, Mogollón HF, Ferreira LV, Householder JE, Lozada JR, Comiskey JA, Draper FC, de Toledo JJ, Damasco G, Dávila N, García-Villacorta R, Lopes A, Cornejo Valverde F, Alonso A, Dallmeier F, Gomes VHF, Jimenez EM, Neill D, Peñuela Mora MC, de Aguiar DPP, Arroyo L, Antunes Carvalho F, Coelho de Souza F, Feeley KJ, Gribel R, Pansonato MP, Ríos Paredes M, Brasil da Silva I, Ferreira MJ, Fine PVA, Fonty É, Guedes MC, Licona JC, Pennington T, Peres CA, Villa Zegarra BE, Parada GA, Pardo Molina G, Vos VA, Cerón C, Maas P, Silveira M, Stropp J, Thomas R, Baker TR, Daly D, Huamantupa-Chuquimaco I, Vieira ICG, Weiss Albuquerque B, Fuentes A, Klitgaard B, Marcelo-Peña JL, Silman MR, Tello JS, Vriesendorp C, Chave J, Di Fiore A, Hilário RR, Phillips JF, Rivas-Torres G, von Hildebrand P, Pereira LDO, Barbosa EM, de Matos Bonates LC, Doza HPD, Zárate Gómez R, Gallardo Gonzales GP, Gonzales T, Malhi Y, de Andrade Miranda IP, Mozombite Pinto LF, Prieto A, Rudas A, Ruschel AR, Silva N, Vela CIA, Zent EL, Zent S, Cano A, Carrero Márquez YA, Correa DF, Costa JBP, Galbraith D, Holmgren M, Kalamandeen M, Lobo G, Nascimento MT, Oliveira AA, Ramirez-Angulo H, Rocha M, Scudeller VV, Sierra R, Tirado M, van der Heijden G, Vilanova Torre E, Ahuite Reategui MA, Baider C, Balslev H, Cárdenas S, Casas LF, Farfan-Rios W, Ferreira C, Linares-Palomino R, Mendoza C, Mesones I, Urrego Giraldo LE, Villarroel D, Zagt R, Alexiades MN, de Oliveira EA, Garcia-Cabrera K, Hernandez L, Palacios Cuenca W, Pansini S, Pauletto D, Ramirez Arevalo F, Sampaio AF, Valenzuela Gamarra L, Aragão LEOC. More than 10,000 pre-Columbian earthworks are still hidden throughout Amazonia. Science 2023; 382:103-109. [PMID: 37797008 DOI: 10.1126/science.ade2541] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2022] [Accepted: 08/31/2023] [Indexed: 10/07/2023]
Abstract
Indigenous societies are known to have occupied the Amazon basin for more than 12,000 years, but the scale of their influence on Amazonian forests remains uncertain. We report the discovery, using LIDAR (light detection and ranging) information from across the basin, of 24 previously undetected pre-Columbian earthworks beneath the forest canopy. Modeled distribution and abundance of large-scale archaeological sites across Amazonia suggest that between 10,272 and 23,648 sites remain to be discovered and that most will be found in the southwest. We also identified 53 domesticated tree species significantly associated with earthwork occurrence probability, likely suggesting past management practices. Closed-canopy forests across Amazonia are likely to contain thousands of undiscovered archaeological sites around which pre-Columbian societies actively modified forests, a discovery that opens opportunities for better understanding the magnitude of ancient human influence on Amazonia and its current state.
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- Vinicius Peripato
- Division of Earth Observation and Geoinformatics, General Coordination of Earth Sciences, National Institute for Space Research (INPE), São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil
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- Postgraduate Program in Ecology, Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Florianópolis, SC, Brazil
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- Centre of Molecular and Environmental Biology, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal
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- Departamento de Métodos Estatísticos, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
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- Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, Netherlands
- Quantitative Biodiversity Dynamics, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Department of Humanities, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Archaeology, College of Humanities, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
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- Department of Archaeology, College of Humanities, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
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- Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Instituto do Património Histórico e Artístico Nacional (IPHAN), Centro Nacional de Arqueologia (CNA), Brasília, DF, Brazil
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- Departamento de Arqueologia, Universidade Federal de Sergipe (UFS), Laranjeiras, SE, Brazil
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- Programa de Antropologia e Arqueologia, Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará (UFOPA), Santarém, PA, Brazil
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- Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, Jena, Germany
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- Division of Earth Observation and Geoinformatics, General Coordination of Earth Sciences, National Institute for Space Research (INPE), São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil
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- Division of Earth Observation and Geoinformatics, General Coordination of Earth Sciences, National Institute for Space Research (INPE), São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil
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- Division of Earth Observation and Geoinformatics, General Coordination of Earth Sciences, National Institute for Space Research (INPE), São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil
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- Division of Earth Observation and Geoinformatics, General Coordination of Earth Sciences, National Institute for Space Research (INPE), São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil
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- Division of Earth Observation and Geoinformatics, General Coordination of Earth Sciences, National Institute for Space Research (INPE), São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil
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- Division of Earth Observation and Geoinformatics, General Coordination of Earth Sciences, National Institute for Space Research (INPE), São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil
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- Postgraduate Program in Geography, Institute of Geography, Federal University of Uberlândia (UFU), Uberlândia, MG, Brazil
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- Coordenação de Pesquisas em Ecologia, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Postgraduate Program in Ecology, Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Florianópolis, SC, Brazil
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Coordenação de Pesquisas em Ecologia, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Department of Biology, University of Missouri, St. Louis, MO, USA
- Facultad de Biologia, Universidad Nacional de la Amazonia Peruana, Iquitos, Loreto, Peru
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- Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, Lancashire, UK
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- Department for Ecosystem Stewardship, Royal Botanic Gardens, Richmond, Surrey, UK
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- Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA), Belém, PA, Brazil
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- Embrapa Recursos Genéticos e Biotecnologia, Parque Estação Biológica, Prédio da Botânica e Ecologia, Brasilia, DF, Brazil
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- Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, Netherlands
- Biosystematics Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands
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- Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science and College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Cairns, QLD, Australia
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- Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science and College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Cairns, QLD, Australia
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- Instituto de Investigaciones para el Desarrollo Forestal (INDEFOR), Universidad de los Andes, Conjunto Forestal, Mérida, Mérida, Venezuela
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- Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, Instituto Tecnológico Vale, Belém, PA, Brazil
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- Institut National de Recherches Archéologiques Préventives, Bègles, France
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- Direction des Affaires Culturelles (DAC Guyane), Cayenne, French Guiana
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- Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Wetland Department, Institute of Geography and Geoecology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Rastatt, Germany
- Ecology, Monitoring and Sustainable Use of Wetlands (MAUA), Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Biológicas e Botânica Tropical, Universidade Federal Rural da Amazônia (UFRA), Belém, PA, Brazil
- Coordenação de Botânica, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Belém, PA, Brazil
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- Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Grupo de Investigación en Biodiversidad, Medio Ambiente y Salud (BIOMAS), Universidad de las Américas, Campus Queri, Quito, Ecuador
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- Centro de Pesquisa Agroflorestal de Roraima, Embrapa Roraima, Boa Vista, RR, Brazil
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- Herbario Amazónico Colombiano, Instituto Amazónico de Investigaciones Científicas (SINCHI), Bogotá, DC, Colombia
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- AMAP, IRD, Cirad, CNRS, INRAE, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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- Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, Netherlands
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- Ecology, Monitoring and Sustainable Use of Wetlands (MAUA), Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Departamento de Biologia Vegetal, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, SP, Brazil
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- Division of Earth Observation and Geoinformatics, General Coordination of Earth Sciences, National Institute for Space Research (INPE), São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil
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- Herbario Vargas, Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco (UNSAAC), Cusco, Cusco, Peru
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- Departamento de Ecologia, Centro de Biociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Natal, RN, Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biodiversidade e Biotecnologia, Universidade Federal de Rondônia (UNIR), Porto Velho, RO, Brazil
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- Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science and College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Cairns, QLD, Australia
- Department of Biology and Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biodiversidade e Biotecnologia, Universidade Federal de Rondônia (UNIR), Porto Velho, RO, Brazil
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- Ecology, Monitoring and Sustainable Use of Wetlands (MAUA), Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonía Peruana (IIAP), Iquitos, Loreto, Peru
- School of Geography and Sustainable Development, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK
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- Herbario Vargas, Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco (UNSAAC), Cusco, Cusco, Peru
- Jardín Botánico de Missouri, Oxapampa, Pasco, Peru
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- Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, AM, Brazil
- Instituto Boliviano de Investigacion Forestal, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
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- Ecology, Monitoring and Sustainable Use of Wetlands (MAUA), Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
- Geography, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
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- Wetland Department, Institute of Geography and Geoecology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Rastatt, Germany
- Ecology, Monitoring and Sustainable Use of Wetlands (MAUA), Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Programa de Ciencias del Agro y el Mar, Herbario Universitario (PORT), UNELLEZ-Guanare, Guanare, Portuguesa, Venezuela
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- International Center for Tropical Botany (ICTB), Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA
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- Herbario Amazónico Colombiano, Instituto Amazónico de Investigaciones Científicas (SINCHI), Bogotá, DC, Colombia
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- AMAP, IRD, Cirad, CNRS, INRAE, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
- International Center for Tropical Botany (ICTB), Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA
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- Paracou research station, UMR EcoFoG Université de Guyane, Campus agronomique, Kourou Cedex, French Guiana
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- Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia e Conservação, Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso (UNEMAT), Nova Xavantina, MT, Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia e Conservação, Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso (UNEMAT), Nova Xavantina, MT, Brazil
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- Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, Lancashire, UK
- Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK
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- Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária, Embrapa Amazônia Oriental, Belém, PA, Brazil
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- Facultad de Ciencias Agrícolas, Universidad Autónoma Gabriel René Moreno, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
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- Centro de Investigaciones Ecológicas de Guayana, Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, Puerto Ordaz, Bolivar, Venezuela
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- Embrapa Recursos Genéticos e Biotecnologia, Parque Estação Biológica, Prédio da Botânica e Ecologia, Brasilia, DF, Brazil
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- Projeto Dinâmica Biológica de Fragmentos Florestais, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Projeto Dinâmica Biológica de Fragmentos Florestais, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Ecologia de Doenças Transmissíveis da Amazônia (EDTA), Instituto Leônidas e Maria Deane (Fiocruz Amazônia), Manaus, AM, Brazil
- Programa de Pós-graduação em Biodiversidade e Saúde, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
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- Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária, Embrapa Amazônia Oriental, Belém, PA, Brazil
- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA), Belém, PA, Brazil
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- Diretoria Técnico-Científica, Instituto de Desenvolvimento Sustentável Mamirauá, Tefé, AM, Brazil
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- School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
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- Laboratorio de Ecología de Bosques Tropicales y Primatología, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, DC, Colombia
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- Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado, Universidad Autónoma Gabriel Rene Moreno, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Botânica, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Institute of Natural, Human, and Social Sciences (ICNHS), Federal University of Mato Grosso (UFMT), Sinop, MT, Brazil
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- Institute of Natural, Human, and Social Sciences (ICNHS), Federal University of Mato Grosso (UFMT), Sinop, MT, Brazil
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- Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Institute of Natural, Human, and Social Sciences (ICNHS), Federal University of Mato Grosso (UFMT), Sinop, MT, Brazil
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- Institute of Natural, Human, and Social Sciences (ICNHS), Federal University of Mato Grosso (UFMT), Sinop, MT, Brazil
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- Wetland Department, Institute of Geography and Geoecology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Rastatt, Germany
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- Facultad de Ciencias Forestales y Ambientales, Instituto de Investigaciones para el Desarrollo Forestal, Universidad de los Andes, Mérida, Mérida, Venezuela
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- Inventory and Monitoring Program, National Park Service, Fredericksburg, VA, USA
- Center for Conservation and Sustainability, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Washington, DC, USA
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- Department of Geography and Planning, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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- Departamento de Meio Ambiente e Desenvolvimento, Universidade Federal do Amapá (UNIFAP), Macapá, AP, Brazil
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- Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Departamento de Biologia Vegetal, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, SP, Brazil
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- Programa Restauración de Ecosistemas (PRE), Centro de Innovación Científica Amazónica (CINCIA), Tambopata, Madre de Dios, Peru
- Peruvian Center for Biodiversity and Conservation (PCBC), Iquitos, Loreto, Peru
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- Department of Ecology, Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Brasilia (UNB), Brasilia, DF, Brazil
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- Center for Conservation and Sustainability, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Washington, DC, USA
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- Center for Conservation and Sustainability, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Washington, DC, USA
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- Escola de Negócios Tecnologia e Inovação, Centro Universitário do Pará, Belém, PA, Brazil
- Environmental Science Program, Geosciences Department, Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA), Belém, PA, Brazil
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- Grupo de Ecología y Conservación de Fauna y Flora Silvestre, Instituto Amazónico de Investigaciones Imani, Universidad Nacional de Colombia sede Amazonia, Leticia, Amazonas, Colombia
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- Universidad Estatal Amazónica, Puyo, Pastaza, Ecuador
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- Procuradoria-Geral de Justiça, Ministério Público do Estado do Amazonas, Manaus, AM, Brazil
- Coordenação de Dinâmica Ambiental, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado, Universidad Autónoma Gabriel Rene Moreno, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
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- Coordenação de Pesquisas em Ecologia, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, AM, Brazil
- Departamento de Genética, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Ecologia e Evolução, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
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- School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
- Coordenação de Pesquisas em Ecologia, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Department of Biology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA
- Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Coral Gables, FL, USA
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- Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, AM, Brazil
- Departamento de Ecologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Postgraduate Program in Biodiversity and Biotechnology Bionorte, Federal University of Acre (UFAC), Rio Branco, AC, Brazil
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- Postgraduate Program in Ethnobiology and Nature Conservation, Federal Rural University of Pernambuco (UFRPE), Pernambuco, PB, Brazil
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- AMAP, IRD, Cirad, CNRS, INRAE, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
- Direction régionale de la Guyane, Office national des forêts, Cayenne, French Guiana
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- Instituto Boliviano de Investigacion Forestal, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
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- Geography, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
- Tropical Diversity Section, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
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- School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
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- Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado, Universidad Autónoma Gabriel Rene Moreno, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
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- Instituto de Investigaciones Forestales de la Amazonía, Universidad Autónoma del Beni José Ballivián, Campus Universitario Final, Riberalta, Beni, Bolivia
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- Instituto de Investigaciones Forestales de la Amazonía, Universidad Autónoma del Beni José Ballivián, Campus Universitario Final, Riberalta, Beni, Bolivia
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- Escuela de Biología Herbario Alfredo Paredes, Universidad Central, Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador
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- Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, Netherlands
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- Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Natureza, Universidade Federal do Acre (UFAC), Rio Branco, AC, Brazil
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- Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN-CSIC), Madrid, Spain
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- Iwokrama International Centre for Rain Forest Conservation and Development, Georgetown, Guyana
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- School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
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- New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, New York, NY, USA
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- Herbario HAG, Universidad Nacional Amazónica de Madre de Dios (UNAMAD), Puerto Maldonado, Madre de Dios, Peru
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- Ecology, Monitoring and Sustainable Use of Wetlands (MAUA), Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Herbario Nacional de Bolivia, Universitario UMSA, La Paz, La Paz, Bolivia
- Center for Conservation and Sustainable Development, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Department for Accelerated Taxonomy, Royal Botanic Gardens, Richmond, Surrey, UK
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- Departamento Académico de Ingenieria Forestal y Ambiental, Universidad Nacional de Jaén, Jaén, Cajamarca, Peru
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- Biology Department and Center for Energy, Environment and Sustainability, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, NC, USA
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- Center for Conservation and Sustainable Development, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique, Université Paul Sabatier CNRS UMR 5174 EDB, Toulouse, France
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- Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
- Estación de Biodiversidad Tiputini, Colegio de Ciencias Biológicas y Ambientales, Universidad San Francisco de Quito-USFQ, Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador
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- Departamento de Meio Ambiente e Desenvolvimento, Universidade Federal do Amapá (UNIFAP), Macapá, AP, Brazil
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- Estación de Biodiversidad Tiputini, Colegio de Ciencias Biológicas y Ambientales, Universidad San Francisco de Quito-USFQ, Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador
- Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- PROTERRA, Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonía Peruana (IIAP), Iquitos, Loreto, Peru
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- Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University Centre for the Environment, Oxford, England, UK
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- Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, DC, Colombia
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- Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, DC, Colombia
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- Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária, Embrapa Amazônia Oriental, Belém, PA, Brazil
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- Instituto de Ciência Agrárias, Universidade Federal Rural da Amazônia (UFRA), Belém, PA, Brazil
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- Escuela Profesional de Ingeniería Forestal, Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Puerto Maldonado, Madre de Dios, Peru
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- Laboratory of Human Ecology, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas (IVIC), Caracas, DC, Venezuela
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- Laboratory of Human Ecology, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas (IVIC), Caracas, DC, Venezuela
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- Laboratorio de Ecología de Bosques Tropicales y Primatología, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, DC, Colombia
- Cambridge University Botanic Garden, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK
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- Laboratorio de Ecología de Bosques Tropicales y Primatología, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, DC, Colombia
- Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science (CBCS), The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Resource Ecology Group, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, Gelderland, Netherlands
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- School of Earth, Environment and Society, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- Ecology, Monitoring and Sustainable Use of Wetlands (MAUA), Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Ciências Ambientais, Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense (UENF), Campos dos Goytacazes, RJ, Brazil
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- Departamento de Ecologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Instituto de Investigaciones para el Desarrollo Forestal (INDEFOR), Universidad de los Andes, Conjunto Forestal, Mérida, Mérida, Venezuela
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- Ecology, Monitoring and Sustainable Use of Wetlands (MAUA), Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Departamento de Biologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas (ICB), Universidade Federal do Amazonas (UFAM), Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Instituto de Investigaciones para el Desarrollo Forestal (INDEFOR), Universidad de los Andes, Conjunto Forestal, Mérida, Mérida, Venezuela
- Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), New York, NY, USA
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- Departamento de Ecologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, SP, Brazil
- The Mauritius Herbarium, Agricultural Services, Ministry of Agro-Industry and Food Security, Reduit, Mauritius
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- Department of Biology, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Laboratorio de Ecología de Bosques Tropicales y Primatología, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, DC, Colombia
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- Laboratorio de Ecología de Bosques Tropicales y Primatología, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, DC, Colombia
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- Herbario Vargas, Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco (UNSAAC), Cusco, Cusco, Peru
- Center for Conservation and Sustainable Development, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO, USA
- Living Earth Collaborative, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Center for Conservation and Sustainability, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Washington, DC, USA
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- Escuela de Ciencias Forestales (ESFOR), Universidad Mayor de San Simon (UMSS), Sacta, Cochabamba, Bolivia
- FOMABO, Manejo Forestal en las Tierras Tropicales de Bolivia, Sacta, Cochabamba, Bolivia
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado, Universidad Autónoma Gabriel Rene Moreno, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
- Fundación Amigos de la Naturaleza (FAN), Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
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- School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, UK
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia e Conservação, Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso (UNEMAT), Nova Xavantina, MT, Brazil
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- Biology Department and Center for Energy, Environment and Sustainability, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, NC, USA
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- Centro de Investigaciones Ecológicas de Guayana, Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, Puerto Ordaz, Bolivar, Venezuela
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biodiversidade e Biotecnologia, Universidade Federal de Rondônia (UNIR), Porto Velho, RO, Brazil
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- Instituto de Biodiversidade e Florestas, Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará (FOPROP), Campus Tapajós, Santarém, PA, Brazil
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- Facultad de Biologia, Universidad Nacional de la Amazonia Peruana, Iquitos, Loreto, Peru
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biodiversidade e Biotecnologia, Universidade Federal de Rondônia (UNIR), Porto Velho, RO, Brazil
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- Division of Earth Observation and Geoinformatics, General Coordination of Earth Sciences, National Institute for Space Research (INPE), São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil
- Geography, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
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Shepard GH, Daly L. Sensory Ecology, Bioeconomy, and the Age of COVID: A Parallax View of Indigenous and Scientific Knowledge. Top Cogn Sci 2023. [PMID: 37440457 DOI: 10.1111/tops.12666] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2022] [Revised: 04/19/2023] [Accepted: 04/23/2023] [Indexed: 07/15/2023]
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Drawing on original ethnobotanical and anthropological research among Indigenous peoples across the Amazon, we examine synergies and dissonances between Indigenous and Western scientific knowledge about the environment, resource use, and sustainability. By focusing on the sensory dimension of Indigenous engagements with the environment-an approach we have described as "sensory ecology" and explored through the method of "phytoethnography"-we promote a symmetrical dialogue between Indigenous and scientific understandings around such phenomena as animal-plant mutualisms, phytochemical toxicity, sustainable forest management in "multinatural" landscapes, and the emergence of new diseases like the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19). Drawing examples from our own and other published works, we explore the possibilities and limitations of a "parallax view" attempting to hold Indigenous and scientific knowledge in focus simultaneously. As the concept of "bioeconomy" emerges as a key alternative for sustainable development of the Amazon, we encourage a critical and urgent engagement between dominant Western conceptions and Indigenous Amazonian knowledge, practices, and cultural values. Cognitive science, which has long contributed to studies of Indigenous categorization and conceptualization of the natural world, continues to play an important role in building bridges of mutual communication and respect between Indigenous and scientific approaches to sustainability and biodiversity conservation.
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- Department of Anthropology, University College London
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Plant life defines the environments to which animals adapt and provides the basis of food webs. This was equally true for hunter-gatherer economies of ancestral humans, yet through the domestication of plants and the creation of agricultural ecologies based around them, human societies transformed vegetation and transported plant taxa into new geographical regions. These human-plant interactions ultimately co-evolved, increasing human population densities, technologies of farming, and the diversification of landraces and crop complexes. Research in archaeology on preserved plant remains (archaeobotany) and on the genomes of crops, including ancient genomes, has transformed our scientific understanding of the complex relationships between humans and plants that are entailed by domestication. Key realizations of recent research include the recognition that: the co-evolution of domesticates and cultures was protracted, the adaptations of plant populations were unintended results of human economies rather than intentional breeding, domestication took place in dozens of world regions involving different crops and cultures, and convergent evolution can be recognized among cropping types - such as among seed crops, tuber crops, and fruit trees. Seven general domestication pathways can be defined for plants. Lessons for the present-day include: the importance of diversity in the past; genetic diversity within species has the potential to erode over time, but also to be rescued through processes of integration; similarly, diversification within agricultural ecosystems has undergone processes of decline, including marginalised, lost and 'forgotten' crops, as well as processes of renewal resulting from trade and human mobility that brought varied crops and varieties together.
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- Dorian Q Fuller
- Institute of Archaeology, University College London (UCL), London, UK; School of Cultural Heritage, Northwest University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.
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- School of Archaeology and Anthropology, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
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Lavoie A, Thomas E, Olivier A. Local working collections as the foundation for an integrated conservation of Theobroma cacao L. in Latin America. Front Ecol Evol 2023. [DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2022.1063266] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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The intraspecific diversity of cacao has traditionally been preserved in genebanks. However, these establishments face various challenges, notably insufficient funding, accession redundancy, misidentification and lack of wild cacao population samples. In natural environments, it is expected that unknown varieties of cacao may still be found, but wild populations of cacao are increasingly threatened by climate change, deforestation, habitat loss, land use changes and poor knowledge. Farmers also retain diversity, but on-farm conservation is affected by geopolitical, economic, management and cultural issues, that are influenced at multiple scales, from the household to the international market. Taking separately, ex situ, in situ and on-farm conservation have not achieved adequate conservation fostering the inclusion of all stakeholders and the broad use of cacao diversity. We analyze the use of the traditional conservation strategies (ex situ, in situ and on-farm) and propose an integrated approach based on local working collections to secure cacao diversity in the long term. We argue that national conservation networks should be implemented in countries of origin to simultaneously maximize alpha (diversity held in any given working collection), beta (the change in diversity between working collections in different regions) and gamma diversity (overall diversity in a country).
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Spengler RN, Kienast F, Roberts P, Boivin N, Begun DR, Ashastina K, Petraglia M. Bearing Fruit: Miocene Apes and Rosaceous Fruit Evolution. BIOLOGICAL THEORY 2023; 18:134-151. [PMID: 37214192 PMCID: PMC10191964 DOI: 10.1007/s13752-022-00413-1] [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: 11/18/2021] [Accepted: 09/08/2022] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Extinct megafaunal mammals in the Americas are often linked to seed-dispersal mutualisms with large-fruiting tree species, but large-fruiting species in Europe and Asia have received far less attention. Several species of arboreal Maloideae (apples and pears) and Prunoideae (plums and peaches) evolved large fruits starting around nine million years ago, primarily in Eurasia. As evolutionary adaptations for seed dispersal by animals, the size, high sugar content, and bright colorful visual displays of ripeness suggest that mutualism with megafaunal mammals facilitated the evolutionary change. There has been little discussion as to which animals were likely candidate(s) on the late Miocene landscape of Eurasia. We argue that several possible dispersers could have consumed the large fruits, with endozoochoric dispersal usually relying on guilds of species. During the Pleistocene and Holocene, the dispersal guild likely included ursids, equids, and elephantids. During the late Miocene, large primates were likely also among the members of this guild, and the potential of a long-held mutualism between the ape and apple clades merits further discussion. If primates were a driving factor in the evolution of this large-fruit seed-dispersal system, it would represent an example of seed-dispersal-based mutualism with hominids millions of years prior to crop domestication or the development of cultural practices, such as farming.
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- Robert N. Spengler
- Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology, Jena, Germany
- Domestication and Anthropogenic Evolution Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology, Jena, Germany
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- Senckenberg Research Station of Quaternary, Palaeontology, Weimar, Germany
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- Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology, Jena, Germany
- isoTROPIC Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology, Jena, Germany
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- Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology, Jena, Germany
- Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC USA
- School of Social Science, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
- Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
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- Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology, Jena, Germany
- Domestication and Anthropogenic Evolution Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology, Jena, Germany
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- Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC USA
- Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution, Griffith University, Nathan, Queensland Australia
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Molina AA, Ferreira MJ, Oyaxaka Suruí L, Norder LAC, Costa Neto EM, Clement CR. Amazonian Invertebrates in the Traditional diet of the Paiter Suruí in Southeastern Brazil. HUMAN ECOLOGY: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL 2023; 51:209-219. [PMID: 37122818 PMCID: PMC10044069 DOI: 10.1007/s10745-023-00402-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/19/2023] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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The Paiter Suruí people in the southwestern Brazilian Amazon have a complex food system that includes insects and crustaceans. We designed our study to systematize data about the invertebrates they incorporate into their traditional diet. After conducting a review of the literature, we verified and expanded the data through semi-structured interviews with Paiter Suruí volunteers, and traced trends in their consumption of invertebrates. We identified 61 invertebrates, including 58 insects of the orders Coleoptera, Lepidoptera, Hymenoptera, and three crustaceans. While beetle larvae remain a popular choice, consumption of other insects and crustaceans seems to have diminished over time.
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- Ariel Andrade Molina
- Programa de Pós-graduação em Botânica, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, Amazonas Brasil
- Programa de Pós-graduação em Botânica, Av. André Araujo, Petrópolis, Manaus, 2936, CEP: 69067-375 AM Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-graduação em Etnobiologia e Conservação da Natureza, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco Brasil
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- Licenciatura Pedagógica Intercultural, Universidade Federal de Rondônia, Escola Paiter Suruí, Aldeia Joaquim, Cacoal, Rondônia Brasil
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- Programa de Pós-graduação em Agroecologia e Desenvolvimento Rural, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Araras, São Paulo, Brasil
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- Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Feira de Santana, Bahia, Brasil
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da Costa Marques I. Anthropophagy, European enlightenment, science and technology studies, and responsible knowledge construction in Brazil. SOCIAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE 2022; 52:812-828. [PMID: 36172954 DOI: 10.1177/03063127221119112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Many parts of the world receive from abroad not only objects of technology, but also scientific discoveries, and organizing elements and practices as well. Since these entities materially comprehend a formidable part of their modes of existence, let us say that non-Western countries result from ontologies/epistemologies that in large part come from abroad. This manifested coloniality emerges in the feeling of contradiction between national realities and the ideological prestige of the Western imperial centers that serve as models to them. This configures a malaise that is deeply rooted in educated Brazilians. I discuss lines of flight from that malaise in an articulation that configures a philosophical and political novelty in Brazil. In examples concerning computing in Brazil, I juxtapose elements of STS, the metaphorical anthropophagic movement, and the European Enlightenment project, to enact a more symmetrical, dialogical, and inclusive world by constructing 'respectful enough' stories. In doing so, the anthropophagic movement, previously in practice restricted to the artistic realms, incorporates sciences and technologies. In each of these stories, the enlightened motto 'daring to know' is juxtaposed with the anthropophagic metaphorical motto 'eat the stranger' around modern Western scientific and technological issues in local situated ways.
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Figel JJ, Botero-Cañola S, Lavariega MC, Luna-Krauletz MD. Overlooked jaguar guardians: Indigenous territories and range-wide conservation of a cultural icon. AMBIO 2022; 51:2532-2543. [PMID: 35723798 PMCID: PMC9583995 DOI: 10.1007/s13280-022-01754-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2022] [Revised: 05/07/2022] [Accepted: 06/07/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Indigenous territories (ITs) are an integral component of global conservation strategies. We evaluate the range-wide overlap of ITs and the distribution of the jaguar (Panthera onca), a Neotropical apex predator with considerable cultural significance among Indigenous Peoples. We quantified overlap between protected areas (PAs) and ITs among: (1) jaguar range, (2) the species' core habitats, known as Jaguar Conservation Units (JCUs), and (3) corridors connecting JCUs. We further evaluated deforestation rates between 2000 and 2020 among protected, unprotected, and indigenous portions of JCUs and corridors and compared jaguar density estimates among these land tenures. Our results indicate that ITs overlap 27.7% of jaguar range. South American JCUs and corridors, which comprise ~ 94% of jaguar distribution, experienced significantly less deforestation where ITs intersected PAs. We documented an unbalanced ratio of jaguar density estimates between indigenous and non-indigenous areas, highlighting the need for more representative sampling. Collaborative approaches for jaguar conservation, informed and guided by indigenous knowledge, can support more inclusive and effective monitoring that reduces dependence on external support.
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- Joe J. Figel
- Laboratorio de Conservación Colombia, Crr. 81 N 48B-51, Medellín, Colombia
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- Centro Interdisciplinario de Investigación para el Desarrollo Integral Regional-Unidad Oaxaca, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Hornos 1003, Noche Buena, 71230 Santa Cruz Xoxocotlán, Oaxaca México
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- Instituto de Estudios Ambientales, Universidad de la Sierra Juárez, Av. Universidad s/n, 68725 Ixtlán de Juárez, Oaxaca México
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Flores BM, Staal A. Feedback in tropical forests of the Anthropocene. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY 2022; 28:5041-5061. [PMID: 35770837 PMCID: PMC9542052 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.16293] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2021] [Revised: 04/06/2022] [Accepted: 05/31/2022] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Tropical forests are complex systems containing myriad interactions and feedbacks with their biotic and abiotic environments, but as the world changes fast, the future of these ecosystems becomes increasingly uncertain. In particular, global stressors may unbalance the feedbacks that stabilize tropical forests, allowing other feedbacks to propel undesired changes in the whole ecosystem. Here, we review the scientific literature across various fields, compiling known interactions of tropical forests with their environment, including the global climate, rainfall, aerosols, fire, soils, fauna, and human activities. We identify 170 individual interactions among 32 elements that we present as a global tropical forest network, including countless feedback loops that may emerge from different combinations of interactions. We illustrate our findings with three cases involving urgent sustainability issues: (1) wildfires in wetlands of South America; (2) forest encroachment in African savanna landscapes; and (3) synergistic threats to the peatland forests of Borneo. Our findings reveal an unexplored world of feedbacks that shape the dynamics of tropical forests. The interactions and feedbacks identified here can guide future qualitative and quantitative research on the complexities of tropical forests, allowing societies to manage the nonlinear responses of these ecosystems in the Anthropocene.
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- Bernardo M. Flores
- Graduate Program in EcologyFederal University of Santa CatarinaFlorianopolisBrazil
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- Copernicus Institute of Sustainable DevelopmentUtrecht UniversityUtrechtThe Netherlands
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Sefidi K, Copenheaver CA, Sadeghi SMM. Anthropogenic pressures decrease structural complexity in Caucasian forests of Iran. ECOSCIENCE 2022. [DOI: 10.1080/11956860.2021.2010333] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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- Kiomars Sefidi
- Forest Science Department, Agriculture and Natural Resources Faculty, University of Mohaghegh Arabili, Arabili, Iran
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- Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
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- Department of Forest Engineering, Forest Management Planning and Terrestrial Measurements, Faculty of Silviculture and Forest Engineering, Transilvania University of Brasov, Brasov, Romania
- School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences, Newins-Ziegler Hall, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
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Vianna Franco MP, Molnár O, Dorninger C, Laciny A, Treven M, Weger J, Albuquerque EDME, Cazzolla Gatti R, Villanueva Hernandez LA, Jakab M, Marizzi C, Menéndez LP, Poliseli L, Rodríguez HB, Caniglia G. Diversity regained: Precautionary approaches to COVID-19 as a phenomenon of the total environment. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2022; 825:154029. [PMID: 35202694 PMCID: PMC8861146 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.154029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2021] [Revised: 02/15/2022] [Accepted: 02/16/2022] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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As COVID-19 emerged as a phenomenon of the total environment, and despite the intertwined and complex relationships that make humanity an organic part of the Bio- and Geospheres, the majority of our responses to it have been corrective in character, with few or no consideration for unintended consequences which bring about further vulnerability to unanticipated global events. Tackling COVID-19 entails a systemic and precautionary approach to human-nature relations, which we frame as regaining diversity in the Geo-, Bio-, and Anthropospheres. Its implementation requires nothing short of an overhaul in the way we interact with and build knowledge from natural and social environments. Hence, we discuss the urgency of shifting from current to precautionary approaches to COVID-19 and look, through the lens of diversity, at the anticipated benefits in four systems crucially affecting and affected by the pandemic: health, land, knowledge and innovation. Our reflections offer a glimpse of the sort of changes needed, from pursuing planetary health and creating more harmonious forms of land use to providing a multi-level platform for other ways of knowing/understanding and turning innovation into a source of global public goods. These exemplary initiatives introduce and solidify systemic thinking in policymaking and move priorities from reaction-based strategies to precautionary frameworks.
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- Marco P Vianna Franco
- Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Martinstrasse 12, Klosterneuburg 3400, Austria
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- Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Martinstrasse 12, Klosterneuburg 3400, Austria.
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- Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Martinstrasse 12, Klosterneuburg 3400, Austria; Institute of Social Ecology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Schottenfeldgasse 29, Vienna 1070, Austria
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- Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Martinstrasse 12, Klosterneuburg 3400, Austria
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- Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Martinstrasse 12, Klosterneuburg 3400, Austria
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- Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Martinstrasse 12, Klosterneuburg 3400, Austria
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- Cedeplar, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Av. Pres. Antônio Carlos, 6627 - Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, MG 31270-901, Brazil
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- Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of Bologna, Via Zamboni, 33, 40126 Bologna, BO, Italy
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- Department for Academic Communication, Sigmund Freud University, Freudpl. 1, Vienna 1020, Austria
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- BioBus, 1361 Amsterdam Avenue, Ste 340, New York, NY, 10027, United States
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- Department of Anthropology of the Americas, University of Bonn, Regina-Pacis-Weg 3, 53113 Bonn, Germany; Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Vienna, Universitätsring 1, 1010 Vienna, Austria
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- Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Martinstrasse 12, Klosterneuburg 3400, Austria
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- Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Martinstrasse 12, Klosterneuburg 3400, Austria
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Forests and Farmers: GIS Analysis of Forest Islands and Large Raised Fields in the Bolivian Amazon. LAND 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/land11050678] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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The Llanos de Mojos of the Bolivian Amazon is a domesticated landscape with a long history of management by pre-Columbian communities. This paper uses a landscape approach to interpret the settlement patterns of pre-Columbian raised-field farmers in west central Mojos. The pre-Columbian landscape was reconstructed by mapping the distribution of three types of landscape features: forest islands, raised agricultural fields, and water systems (rivers, streams and wetlands). Previous research has identified four types of patterned clustering or ‘constellations’ of these landscape features in west central Mojos. These constellations and the immediate area of the landscape that surrounds them afforded Mojos farmers a specific set of tasks or activities to take part in as part of harnessing resources from the landscape. The mapping of landscape features and their associated tasks onto the landscape provides insight into the organization of the communities that constructed and managed them. It was found that the landscape of west central Mojos is organized into two distinct regional patterns. In the northern part of the region, evidence of large farming communities is dispersed along the banks of the permanent rivers with networks of landscape features extending off into remote areas of the savanna. In the southern part of the region, evidence for large farming communities is clustered closer together in remote areas of the savanna with networks of landscape features extending back towards the permanent rivers. The two regions are melded together by a transitional zone that implies a type of interaction between the regions rather than a distinct separation.
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Nascimento MN, Heijink BM, Bush MB, Gosling WD, McMichael CNH. Early to mid-Holocene human activity exerted gradual influences on Amazonian forest vegetation. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2022; 377:20200498. [PMID: 35249380 PMCID: PMC8899618 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2020.0498] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2021] [Accepted: 01/04/2022] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Humans have been present in Amazonia throughout the Holocene, with the earliest archaeological sites dating to 12 000 years ago. The earliest inhabitants began managing landscapes through fire and plant domestication, but the total extent of vegetation modification remains relatively unknown. Here, we compile palaeoecological records from lake sediments containing charcoal and from pollen analyses to understand how human land-use affected vegetation during the early to mid-Holocene, and place our results in the context of previous archaeological work. We identified gradual, rather than abrupt changes in forest openness, disturbance and enrichment, with useful species at almost all sites. Early human occupations occurred in peripheral sites of Amazonia, where natural fires are part of the vegetation dynamics, so human-made fires did not exert a novel form of disturbance. Synchronicity between evidence of the onset of human occupation in lake records and archaeological sites was found for eastern Amazonia. For southwestern and western Amazonia and the Guiana Shield, the timing of the onset of human occupation differed by thousands of years between lake records and archaeological sites. Plant cultivation showed a different spatio-temporal pattern, appearing ca 2000 years earlier in western Amazonia than in other regions. Our findings highlight the spatial-temporal heterogeneity of Amazonia and indicate that the region cannot be treated as one entity when assessing ecological or cultural history. This article is part of the theme issue 'Tropical forests in the deep human past'.
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- Majoi N. Nascimento
- Department of Ecosystem and Landscape Dynamics, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Ecosystem and Landscape Dynamics, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Institute for Global Ecology, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL, USA
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- Department of Ecosystem and Landscape Dynamics, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Ecosystem and Landscape Dynamics, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Maezumi SY, Elliott S, Robinson M, Betancourt CJ, Gregorio de Souza J, Alves D, Grosvenor M, Hilbert L, Urrego DH, Gosling WD, Iriarte J. Legacies of Indigenous land use and cultural burning in the Bolivian Amazon rainforest ecotone. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2022; 377:20200499. [PMID: 35249381 PMCID: PMC8899619 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2020.0499] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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The southwestern Amazon Rainforest Ecotone (ARE) is the transitional landscape between the tropical forest and seasonally flooded savannahs of the Bolivian Llanos de Moxos. These heterogeneous landscapes harbour high levels of biodiversity and some of the earliest records of human occupation and plant domestication in Amazonia. While persistent Indigenous legacies have been demonstrated elsewhere in the Amazon, it is unclear how past human-environment interactions may have shaped vegetation composition and structure in the ARE. Here, we examine 6000 years of archaeological and palaeoecological data from Laguna Versalles (LV), Bolivia. LV was dominated by stable rainforest vegetation throughout the Holocene. Maize cultivation and cultural burning are present after ca 5700 cal yr BP. Polyculture cultivation of maize, manioc and leren after ca 3400 cal yr BP predates the formation of Amazonian Dark/Brown Earth (ADE/ABE) soils (approx. 2400 cal yr BP). ADE/ABE formation is associated with agroforestry indicated by increased edible palms, including Mauritia flexuosa and Attalea sp., and record levels of burning, suggesting that fire played an important role in agroforestry practices. The frequent use of fire altered ADE/ABD forest composition and structure by controlling ignitions, decreasing fuel loads and increasing the abundance of plants preferred by humans. Cultural burning and polyculture agroforestry provided a stable subsistence strategy that persisted despite pronounced climate change and cultural transformations and has an enduring legacy in ADE/ABE forests in the ARE. This article is part of the theme issue 'Tropical forests in the deep human past'.
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- S Yoshi Maezumi
- Department of Ecosystem and Landscape Dynamics, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands 1090N
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- Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, Bournemouth University, Talbot Campus, Fern Barrow, Poole BH12 5BB, UK
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- Department of Archaeology, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QE, UK
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- Department of Anthropology, Federal University of Pará, Belém, PA-66075-110, Brazil
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- Department of Geography, King's College London, London WC2B 4BG, UK
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- Laboratório de Arqueologia dos Trópicos, Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP-05508-070, Brazil
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- College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QE, UK
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- Department of Ecosystem and Landscape Dynamics, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands 1090N
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- Department of Archaeology, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QE, UK
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da Silva Cruz J, Blanco CJC, de Oliveira Júnior JF. Modeling of land use and land cover change dynamics for future projection of the Amazon number curve. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2022; 811:152348. [PMID: 34919927 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.152348] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2021] [Revised: 12/06/2021] [Accepted: 12/08/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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The hydrological parameter Curve Number (CN) was projected in the future in a 30 m spatial resolution grid for the Amazon. Through the DINAMICA EGO platform, Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) were calibrated, simulated, validated, and projected for 2049 in a five-year time frame from 2009. The reclassified LULCs of 2009, 2014, and 2019 of the MapBiomas 5.0 project were used as input to DINAMICA EGO. Calibration was prepared using the 2009 and 2014 maps and the 2014 simulated map; the validation was carried out using the 2014 map, 2019, and 2019 simulated. In the calibration, the multiple window similarity values were all above 50% for the models of each basin, except for the Tapajós which was 40% in spatial resolution of 255 m. Validation values ranged between 36% and 76% at a spatial resolution of 255 m. Concerning the future projection of CN, the average CN of the Amazon region is equal to 77. The highest values of CN were found in the southern regions of the basins of the Xingu, Tapajós, Madeira, and throughout the basins of the Araguaia and Tocantins. In this Amazon region, in 2049, the areas of high CN will increase due to forest conversion to pasture/agriculture, implying larger runoff and flooding, including the urban areas, which will also expand. These floods will be intensified concerning those that already occur in the Amazon.
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- Josias da Silva Cruz
- Post-Graduation Program of Civil Engineering, Federal University of Pará-PPGEC/ITEC/UFPA, Av. Augusto Corrêa, 01, 66075-110 Belém, Brazil.
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- School of Environmental and Sanitary Engineering, Federal University of Pará - FAESA/ITEC/UFPA, Av. Augusto Corrêa, 01, 66075-110 Belém, Brazil.
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- Applied Meteorology and Environment Laboratory (LAMMA), Institute of Atmospheric Sciences (ICAT), Federal University of Alagoas - LAMMA/ICAT/UFAL, Av. Lourival Melo Mota, S/N, 57072-970 Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil.
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Climate change threatens native potential agroforestry plant species in Brazil. Sci Rep 2022; 12:2267. [PMID: 35145191 PMCID: PMC8831634 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-06234-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2021] [Accepted: 01/11/2022] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Climate change is one of the main drivers of species extinction in the twentyfirst-century. Here, we (1) quantify potential changes in species' bioclimatic area of habitat (BAH) of 135 native potential agroforestry species from the Brazilian flora, using two different climate change scenarios (SSP2-4.5 and SSP5-8.5) and dispersal scenarios, where species have no ability to disperse and reach new areas (non-dispersal) and where species can migrate within the estimated BAH (full dispersal) for 2041–2060 and 2061–2080. We then (2) assess the preliminary conservation status of each species based on IUCN criteria. Current and future potential habitats for species were predicted using MaxEnt, a machine-learning algorithm used to estimate species' probability distribution. Future climate is predicted to trigger a mean decline in BAH between 38.5–56.3% under the non-dispersal scenario and between 22.3–41.9% under the full dispersal scenario for 135 native potential agroforestry species. Additionally, we found that only 4.3% of the studied species could be threatened under the IUCN Red List criteria B1 and B2. However, when considering the predicted quantitative habitat loss due to climate change (A3c criterion) the percentages increased between 68.8–84.4% under the non-dispersal scenario and between 40.7–64.4% under the full dispersal scenario. To lessen such threats, we argue that encouraging the use of these species in rural and peri-urban agroecosystems are promising, complementary strategies for their long-term conservation.
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Bouby L, Bonhomme V, Cabanis M, Durand F, Figueiral I, Flottes L, Marinval P, Martin L, Paradis L, Pinaud R, Ros J, Rovira N, Tillier M. Talkin' About a Revolution. Changes and Continuities in Fruit Use in Southern France From Neolithic to Roman Times Using Archaeobotanical Data (ca. 5,800 BCE - 500 CE). FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2022; 13:719406. [PMID: 35197992 PMCID: PMC8859487 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.719406] [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: 06/02/2021] [Accepted: 01/05/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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The use and socio-environmental importance of fruits dramatically changed after the emergence of arboriculture and fruit domestication in the eastern Mediterranean, between the 5th and the 3rd millennia BCE. Domesticated fruits together with cultivation techniques apparently reached the western Mediterranean via colonial activities during the 1st millennium BCE - early 1st millennium CE. However, the pace and chronology of this diffusion as well as the recompositions in diversity, to adapt to new socio-environmental conditions, remain poorly known. In this study we investigate archaeobotanical records in Southern France from the Neolithic to the end of the Roman empire (ca. 5,800 BCE - 500 CE) to assess changes in fruit use as well as the emergence, spread and evolution of fruit cultivation. We explore changes in native traditions faced with innovations brought by Mediterranean colonization and how domesticated fruit cultivation spread from the Mediterranean to more temperate areas. Archaeobotanical data from 577 assemblages were systematically analyzed distinguishing two datasets according to preservation of plant remains (charred vs. uncharred), as this impacts on the quantity and diversity of taxa. The 47 fruit taxa identified were organized in broad categories according to their status and origin: exotic, allochtonous cultivated, indigenous cultivated, wild native. We also analyzed diversity, quantity of fruits compared to the total of economic plants and spatio-temporal variations in the composition of fruit assemblages using correspondence factor analyses. Archaeobotanical data reflect variations and continuities in the diversity of species used through time and space. In the Mediterranean area, significant changes related to the arrival of new plants and development of fruit cultivation occurred mainly, first during the Iron Age (6th-5th c. BCE), then in the beginning of the Roman period. Large cities played a major role in this process. In agreement with archeological information, archaeobotanical data reveal the predominance of viticulture in both periods. However, arboriculture also included other fruit species that have been subject to less intensive and specialized cultivation practices. Most significantly, this study pinpoints the continuous contribution of native, supposedly wild fruits throughout the chronology. Despite the homogenizing Roman influence, results reveal clear differences between the Mediterranean and temperate regions.
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- Laurent Bouby
- ISEM, Université Montpellier, CNRS, IRD, EPHE, Montpellier, France
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- ISEM, Université Montpellier, CNRS, IRD, EPHE, Montpellier, France
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- Institut national de recherches en archéologie préventive (INRAP), Paris, France
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- Institut national de recherches en archéologie préventive (INRAP), Paris, France
- TRACES, Université Jean Jaurès, CNRS, Ministère de la Culture, Toulouse, France
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- ISEM, Université Montpellier, CNRS, IRD, EPHE, Montpellier, France
- Institut national de recherches en archéologie préventive (INRAP), Paris, France
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- ASM, Université Paul Valery-Montpellier 3, CNRS, MCC, INRAP, Montpellier, France
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- Laboratoire d’archéologie préhistorique et anthropologie, Université de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland
- EDYTEM, Le Bourget-du-Lac, France
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- ISEM, Université Montpellier, CNRS, IRD, EPHE, Montpellier, France
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- ASM, Université Paul Valery-Montpellier 3, CNRS, MCC, INRAP, Montpellier, France
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- ISEM, Université Montpellier, CNRS, IRD, EPHE, Montpellier, France
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- ASM, Université Paul Valery-Montpellier 3, CNRS, MCC, INRAP, Montpellier, France
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- ISEM, Université Montpellier, CNRS, IRD, EPHE, Montpellier, France
- ASM, Université Paul Valery-Montpellier 3, CNRS, MCC, INRAP, Montpellier, France
- Ipso Facto Scop, Arles, France
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Geolocation of unpublished archaeological sites in the Peruvian Amazon. Sci Data 2021; 8:290. [PMID: 34716357 PMCID: PMC8556231 DOI: 10.1038/s41597-021-01067-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2021] [Accepted: 09/23/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Published maps identifying archaeological sites in the Amazon basin show a paucity of sites in western Amazonia compared to the Brazilian Amazon. Whereas fewer than two dozen are identified for the Peruvian Amazon on basin-wide maps, a thorough review of unpublished archival material held by the Ministry of Culture of Peru and other sources revealed more than 400 known but unpublished sites in the Department of Loreto, challenging the notion that the region was sparsely occupied in prehistory. Our database provides the geolocation of each site and corresponding references for use by scientists seeking to better understand regional Pre-Columbian human occupation and settlement, cultural change, resource use and their landscape legacies. These data are foundational not only to the development of a richer understanding of prehistory and historical ecology of the Amazon basin but importantly for informing current land use, forest conservation and development policies as well as initiatives to support indigenous land and cultural rights in Amazonia. Measurement(s) | archaeological site • geographic location | Technology Type(s) | digital curation | Sample Characteristic - Location | Amazon Basin |
Machine-accessible metadata file describing the reported data: 10.6084/m9.figshare.16750639
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Alcàntara-Rodríguez M, Françozo M, Van Andel T. Looking into the flora of Dutch Brazil: botanical identifications of seventeenth century plant illustrations in the Libri Picturati. Sci Rep 2021; 11:19736. [PMID: 34611224 PMCID: PMC8492696 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-99226-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2021] [Accepted: 09/21/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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The Libri Picturati includes a collection of plant illustrations from seventeenth century Dutch Brazil that is kept in the Jagiellonian library in Krakow since World War II. While many studies focused on the artistic details and history of these images, we identified the flora depicted. We used contemporary textual sources (e.g., Historia Naturalis Brasiliae), monographs and taxonomist' assessments. We checked origin, life form, domestication and conservation status and the plant parts that are represented. We identified 198 taxa, consisting mostly of wild, native rainforest trees and 35 introduced species. Fertile branches are the most represented, although some loose dry fruits and sterile material were also painted, which sheds light into the collection methods by naturalists in Dutch Brazil. Several species are no longer abundant or have become invasive due to anthropogenic influences since colonialism. Through this botanical iconography, we traced the first records of the sunflower and the Ethiopian pepper in Brazil, as well as the dispersion and assimilation of the flora encountered in the colony by Indigenous, African and European peoples. We emphasized the relevance of combining visual and textual sources when studying natural history collections and we highlighted how digitalization makes these artistic and scientific collections more accessible.
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- Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, Einsteinweg 2, 2333 CC, Leiden, The Netherlands
- Faculty of Archaeology, Associate Professor in Museum Studies, PI ERC BRASILIAE Project, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Institute for Biology, Clusius Chair in History of Botany and Gardens, Leiden University, Sylviusweg 72, 2333 BE, Leiden, The Netherlands
- Naturalis Biodiversity Center, PO Box 9517, 2300 RA, Leiden, The Netherlands
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da Cunha Ávila JV, Clement CR, Junqueira AB, Ticktin T, Steward AM. Adaptive management strategies of local communities in two Amazonian floodplain ecosystems in the face of extreme climate events. J ETHNOBIOL 2021; 41:409-426. [PMID: 35692569 PMCID: PMC7612842 DOI: 10.2993/0278-0771-41.3.409] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2024]
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In Amazonia, changes in the frequency and intensity of extreme climate events are occurring and expected to intensify, affecting food security with subsequent social and political problems. We conducted semi-structured interviews in communities of the mid-Solimões River basin (Amazonas, Brazil). Our questions were designed to construct seasonal calendars with residents (ribeirinhos) to understand climatic patterns and changes in livelihood activities, how traditional management is affected by extreme floods and droughts, and to identify their adaptation strategies in new climatic contexts. We studied three floodplain (várzea, n = 59 households) and three paleo-floodplain communities, situated 1-3 m higher than the floodplain (paleovárzea, n = 42 households). We show that these local communities have detailed knowledge of climate patterns and changes, and that they recognize that climatic unpredictability hinders effective planning of subsistence activities, because their local knowledge is no longer fully reliable. Extreme climate events have consequences for their farming systems and associated agrobiodiversity, varying according to the degree of exposure of different environments to extreme events. During extreme events ribeirinhos intensify adaptation strategies, such as avoiding stress to fruit-tree root systems, prioritizing plants that survive flooding and working in less affected landscapes. Adaptation practices with long histories tend to occur more often in floodplains, and two adaptation practices were specific to floodplains. The impacts of extreme events on local communities are expected to increase, especially in environments more exposed to floods. Local residents suggest the documentation and sharing of adaptation strategies as a way to increase their resilience.
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- Julia Vieira da Cunha Ávila
- Graduate Program in Botany, National Research Institute for Amazonia, Avenida André Araújo, 2936 – Petrópolis, 69067-375 Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
- Mamirauá Sustainable Development Institute, Brazil
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- Institute of Environmental Science and Technologies, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Botany, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA
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- Mamirauá Sustainable Development Institute, Brazil
- Amazonian Institute for Family Agriculture, Federal University of Pará, Brazil
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Demetrio WC, Conrado AC, Acioli ANS, Ferreira AC, Bartz MLC, James SW, da Silva E, Maia LS, Martins GC, Macedo RS, Stanton DWG, Lavelle P, Velasquez E, Zangerlé A, Barbosa R, Tapia‐Coral SC, Muniz AW, Santos A, Ferreira T, Segalla RF, Decaëns T, Nadolny HS, Peña‐Venegas CP, Maia CMBF, Pasini A, Mota AF, Taube Júnior PS, Silva TAC, Rebellato L, de Oliveira Júnior RC, Neves EG, Lima HP, Feitosa RM, Vidal Torrado P, McKey D, Clement CR, Shock MP, Teixeira WG, Motta ACV, Melo VF, Dieckow J, Garrastazu MC, Chubatsu LS, Kille P, Brown GG, Cunha L. A "Dirty" Footprint: Macroinvertebrate diversity in Amazonian Anthropic Soils. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY 2021; 27:4575-4591. [PMID: 34118093 PMCID: PMC9292437 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15752] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2020] [Accepted: 05/25/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Amazonian rainforests, once thought to be pristine wilderness, are increasingly known to have been widely inhabited, modified, and managed prior to European arrival, by human populations with diverse cultural backgrounds. Amazonian Dark Earths (ADEs) are fertile soils found throughout the Amazon Basin, created by pre-Columbian societies with sedentary habits. Much is known about the chemistry of these soils, yet their zoology has been neglected. Hence, we characterized soil fertility, macroinvertebrate communities, and their activity at nine archeological sites in three Amazonian regions in ADEs and adjacent reference soils under native forest (young and old) and agricultural systems. We found 673 morphospecies and, despite similar richness in ADEs (385 spp.) and reference soils (399 spp.), we identified a tenacious pre-Columbian footprint, with 49% of morphospecies found exclusively in ADEs. Termite and total macroinvertebrate abundance were higher in reference soils, while soil fertility and macroinvertebrate activity were higher in the ADEs, and associated with larger earthworm quantities and biomass. We show that ADE habitats have a unique pool of species, but that modern land use of ADEs decreases their populations, diversity, and contributions to soil functioning. These findings support the idea that humans created and sustained high-fertility ecosystems that persist today, altering biodiversity patterns in Amazonia.
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- Wilian C. Demetrio
- Department of Soil ScienceFederal University of ParanáCuritibaPRBrazil
- Present address:
INPE – National Institute for Space ResearchSão José dos CamposSP12227‐010Brazil
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- Biochemistry DepartmentFederal University of ParanáCuritibaPRBrazil
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- Centre for Functional EcologyDepartment of Life SciencesUniversity of CoimbraCoimbraPortugal
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- Department of Soil ScienceFederal University of ParanáCuritibaPRBrazil
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- Department of Bioinformatics and GeneticsSwedish Museum of Natural HistoryStockholmSweden
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- Ministère de l’Agriculture, de la Viticulture et de la Protection des consommateursLuxembourgLuxembourg
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- Department of Soil ScienceFederal University of ParanáCuritibaPRBrazil
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- Department of Soil ScienceFederal University of ParanáCuritibaPRBrazil
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- CEFEUniv MontpellierCNRSEPHEIRDUniv Paul‐Valéry MontpellierMontpellierFrance
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- Department of Soil ScienceFederal University of ParanáCuritibaPRBrazil
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- Biochemistry DepartmentFederal University of ParanáCuritibaPRBrazil
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- Museu de Arqueologia e EtnologiaUniversidade de São PauloSão PauloSPBrazil
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- Soil Science DepartmentEscola Superior de Agricultura Luís de QueirozUniversidade de São PauloPiracicabaSPBrazil
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- CEFEUniv MontpellierCNRSEPHEIRDUniv Paul‐Valéry MontpellierMontpellierFrance
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- Department of Soil ScienceFederal University of ParanáCuritibaPRBrazil
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- Department of Soil ScienceFederal University of ParanáCuritibaPRBrazil
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- Biochemistry DepartmentFederal University of ParanáCuritibaPRBrazil
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- School of BiosciencesCardiff UniversityCardiffCFUK
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- Department of Soil ScienceFederal University of ParanáCuritibaPRBrazil
- Embrapa FlorestasColomboPRBrazil
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- Centre for Functional EcologyDepartment of Life SciencesUniversity of CoimbraCoimbraPortugal
- School of Applied SciencesUniversity of South WalesPontypriddCFUK
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Santos da Silva R, Roland Clement C, Balsanelli E, de Baura VA, Maltempi de Souza E, Pacheco de Freitas Fraga H, do Nascimento Vieira L. The plastome sequence of Bactris gasipaes and evolutionary analysis in tribe Cocoseae (Arecaceae). PLoS One 2021; 16:e0256373. [PMID: 34428237 PMCID: PMC8384209 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0256373] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2021] [Accepted: 08/04/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The family Arecaceae is distributed throughout tropical and subtropical regions of the world. Among the five subfamilies, Arecoideae is the most species-rich and still contains some ambiguous inter-generic relationships, such as those within subtribes Attaleinae and Bactridineae. The hypervariable regions of plastid genomes (plastomes) are interesting tools to clarify unresolved phylogenetic relationships. We sequenced and characterized the plastome of Bactris gasipaes (Bactridinae) and compared it with eight species from the three Cocoseae sub-tribes (Attaleinae, Bactridinae, and Elaeidinae) to perform comparative analysis and to identify hypervariable regions. The Bactris gasipaes plastome has 156,646 bp, with 113 unique genes. Among them, four genes have an alternative start codon (cemA, rps19, rpl2, and ndhD). Plastomes are highly conserved within tribe Cocoseae: 97.3% identity, length variation of ~2 kb, and a single ~4.5 kb inversion in Astrocaryum plastomes. The LSC/IR and IR/SSC junctions vary among the subtribes: in Bactridinae and Elaeidinae the rps19 gene is completely contained in the IR region; in the subtribe Attaleinae the rps19 gene is only partially contained in the IRs. The hypervariable regions selected according to sequence variation (SV%) and frequency of parsimony informative sites (PIS%) revealed plastome regions with great potential for molecular analysis. The ten regions with greatest SV% showed higher variation than the plastid molecular markers commonly used for phylogenetic analysis in palms. The phylogenetic trees based on the plastomes and the hypervariable regions (SV%) datasets had well-resolved relationships, with consistent topologies within tribe Cocoseae, and confirm the monophyly of the subtribes Bactridinae and Attaleinae.
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- Coordenação de Tecnologia e Inovação, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Departamento de Bioquímica e Biologia Molecular, Núcleo de Fixação Biológica de Nitrogênio, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
- Departamento de Bioquímica e Biologia Molecular, GoGenetic, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
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- Departamento de Bioquímica e Biologia Molecular, Núcleo de Fixação Biológica de Nitrogênio, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
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- Departamento de Bioquímica e Biologia Molecular, Núcleo de Fixação Biológica de Nitrogênio, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
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Pivello VR, Vieira I, Christianini AV, Ribeiro DB, da Silva Menezes L, Berlinck CN, Melo FP, Marengo JA, Tornquist CG, Tomas WM, Overbeck GE. Understanding Brazil’s catastrophic fires: Causes, consequences and policy needed to prevent future tragedies. Perspect Ecol Conserv 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.pecon.2021.06.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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- Bernardo M Flores
- Graduate Program in Ecology, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil.
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- Graduate Program in Ecology, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil.
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Geographic Patterns of Genetic Variation among Cacao (Theobroma cacao L.) Populations Based on Chloroplast Markers. DIVERSITY 2021. [DOI: 10.3390/d13060249] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The cacao tree (Theobroma cacao L.) is native to the Amazon basin and widely cultivated in the tropics to produce seeds, the valuable raw material for the chocolate industry. Conservation of cacao genetic resources and their availability for breeding and production programs are vital for securing cacao supply. However, relatively little is still known about the phylogeographic structure of natural cacao populations. We studied the geographic distribution of cpDNA variation in different populations representing natural cacao stands, cacao farms in Ecuador, and breeding populations. We used six earlier published cacao chloroplast microsatellite markers to genotype 233 cacao samples. In total, 23 chloroplast haplotypes were identified. The highest variation of haplotypes was observed in western Amazonia including geographically restricted haplotypes. Two observed haplotypes were widespread across the Amazon basin suggesting long distance seed dispersal from west to east in Amazonia. Most cacao genetic groups identified earlier using nuclear SSRs are associated with specific chloroplast haplotypes. A single haplotype was common in selections representing cacao plantations in west Ecuador and reference Trinitario accessions. Our results can be used to determine the chloroplast diversity of accessions and in combination with phenotypic assessments can help to select geographically distinctive varieties for cacao breeding programs.
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Draper FC, Costa FRC, Arellano G, Phillips OL, Duque A, Macía MJ, Ter Steege H, Asner GP, Berenguer E, Schietti J, Socolar JB, de Souza FC, Dexter KG, Jørgensen PM, Tello JS, Magnusson WE, Baker TR, Castilho CV, Monteagudo-Mendoza A, Fine PVA, Ruokolainen K, Coronado ENH, Aymard G, Dávila N, Sáenz MS, Paredes MAR, Engel J, Fortunel C, Paine CET, Goret JY, Dourdain A, Petronelli P, Allie E, Andino JEG, Brienen RJW, Pérez LC, Manzatto ÂG, Zambrana NYP, Molino JF, Sabatier D, Chave J, Fauset S, Villacorta RG, Réjou-Méchain M, Berry PE, Melgaço K, Feldpausch TR, Sandoval EV, Martinez RV, Mesones I, Junqueira AB, Roucoux KH, de Toledo JJ, Andrade AC, Camargo JL, Del Aguila Pasquel J, Santana FD, Laurance WF, Laurance SG, Lovejoy TE, Comiskey JA, Galbraith DR, Kalamandeen M, Aguilar GEN, Arenas JV, Guerra CAA, Flores M, Llampazo GF, Montenegro LAT, Gomez RZ, Pansonato MP, Moscoso VC, Vleminckx J, Barrantes OJV, Duivenvoorden JF, de Sousa SA, Arroyo L, Perdiz RO, Cravo JS, Marimon BS, Junior BHM, Carvalho FA, Damasco G, Disney M, Vital MS, Diaz PRS, Vicentini A, Nascimento H, Higuchi N, Van Andel T, Malhi Y, Ribeiro SC, Terborgh JW, Thomas RS, Dallmeier F, Prieto A, Hilário RR, Salomão RP, Silva RDC, Casas LF, Vieira ICG, Araujo-Murakami A, Arevalo FR, Ramírez-Angulo H, Torre EV, Peñuela MC, Killeen TJ, Pardo G, Jimenez-Rojas E, Castro W, Cabrera DG, Pipoly J, de Sousa TR, Silvera M, Vos V, Neill D, Vargas PN, Vela DM, Aragão LEOC, Umetsu RK, Sierra R, Wang O, Young KR, Prestes NCCS, Massi KG, Huaymacari JR, Gutierrez GAP, Aldana AM, Alexiades MN, Baccaro F, Céron C, Muelbert AE, Rios JMG, Lima AS, Lloyd JL, Pitman NCA, Gamarra LV, Oroche CJC, Fuentes AF, Palacios W, Patiño S, Torres-Lezama A, Baraloto C. Amazon tree dominance across forest strata. Nat Ecol Evol 2021; 5:757-767. [PMID: 33795854 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-021-01418-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2020] [Accepted: 02/18/2021] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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The forests of Amazonia are among the most biodiverse plant communities on Earth. Given the immediate threats posed by climate and land-use change, an improved understanding of how this extraordinary biodiversity is spatially organized is urgently required to develop effective conservation strategies. Most Amazonian tree species are extremely rare but a few are common across the region. Indeed, just 227 'hyperdominant' species account for >50% of all individuals >10 cm diameter at 1.3 m in height. Yet, the degree to which the phenomenon of hyperdominance is sensitive to tree size, the extent to which the composition of dominant species changes with size class and how evolutionary history constrains tree hyperdominance, all remain unknown. Here, we use a large floristic dataset to show that, while hyperdominance is a universal phenomenon across forest strata, different species dominate the forest understory, midstory and canopy. We further find that, although species belonging to a range of phylogenetically dispersed lineages have become hyperdominant in small size classes, hyperdominants in large size classes are restricted to a few lineages. Our results demonstrate that it is essential to consider all forest strata to understand regional patterns of dominance and composition in Amazonia. More generally, through the lens of 654 hyperdominant species, we outline a tractable pathway for understanding the functioning of half of Amazonian forests across vertical strata and geographical locations.
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- Frederick C Draper
- Institute of Environment, Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA. .,School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK. .,Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.
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- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Brazil
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- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Departamento de Ciencias Forestales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellín, Colombia
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- Departamento de Biología, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.,Centro de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Cambio Global (CIBC-UAM), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.,Systems Ecology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
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- Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK.,Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Brazil
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- Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway
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- School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Department of Intergrative Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- UNELLEZ-Guanare, Programa de Ciencias del Agro y el Mar, Herbario Universitario (PORT), Mesa de Cavacas, Venezuela.,Compensation International Progress S. A.-Ciprogress Greenlife, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonía Peruana, Iquitos, Peru
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- Departamento de Ciencias Forestales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellín, Colombia
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- AMAP, Université de Montpellier, CIRAD, CNRS, INRAE, IRD, Montpellier, France
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- AMAP, Université de Montpellier, CIRAD, CNRS, INRAE, IRD, Montpellier, France
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- Environmental and Rural Science, University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales, Australia
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- INRA, UMR EcoFoG, AgroParisTech, CNRS, CIRAD, Université des Antilles, Université de Guyane, Kourou, French Guiana
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- INRA, UMR EcoFoG, AgroParisTech, CNRS, CIRAD, Université des Antilles, Université de Guyane, Kourou, French Guiana
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- Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal de Rondônia, Porto Velho, Brazil
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- AMAP, Université de Montpellier, CIRAD, CNRS, INRAE, IRD, Montpellier, France
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- Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique (EDB) CNRS/UPS, Toulouse, France
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- School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK
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- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Brazil
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- Department of Intergrative Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Brazil.,Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- School of Geography & Sustainable Development, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK
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- Department of Environment and Development, Federal University of Amapá, Macapa, Brazil
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- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Brazil
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- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Brazil
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- Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science (TESS) and College of Marine and Environmental Sciences, James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia
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- Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science (TESS) and College of Marine and Environmental Sciences, James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia
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- Department of Environmental Science and Policy, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA
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- Inventory and Monitoring Program, National Park Service, Fredericksburg, VA, USA.,Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.,Living with Lakes Centre, Laurentian University, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
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- Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional de la Amazonía Peruana, Iquito, Peru
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- Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional de la Amazonía Peruana, Iquito, Peru
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- Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Cusco, Peru.,Estación Biológica del Jardín Botánico de Missouri, Oxapampa, Peru
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- Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
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- Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado, Universidad Autónoma Gabriel Rene Moreno, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
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- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Brazil
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- Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias, Biológicas e Sociais Aplicadas, Universidad do Estado de Mato Grosso, Nova Xavantina, Brazil
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- Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias, Biológicas e Sociais Aplicadas, Universidad do Estado de Mato Grosso, Nova Xavantina, Brazil
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behaviour, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Department of Geography, University College London, London, UK
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- Centro de Estudos da Biodiversidade, Universidade Federal de Roraima, Boa Vista, Brazil
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- Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad de Los Andes (Colombia), Bogotá, Colombia
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- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Brazil
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- Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Natureza, Universidade Federal do Acre, Rio Branco, Brazil
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- Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
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- Iwokrama International Centre for Rainforest Conservation and Development, Georgetown, Guyana
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- Smithsonian's National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute, Washington DC, USA
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- Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Department of Environment and Development, Federal University of Amapá, Macapa, Brazil
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- Universidade Federal Rural da Amazônia-UFRA/CAPES, Belém, Brazil.,Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Belém, Brasil
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- Laboratorio de Ecología de Bosques Tropicales y Primatología, Fundación Natura Colombia, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado, Universidad Autónoma Gabriel Rene Moreno, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
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- Institute of Research for Forestry Development, Universidad de los Andes, Merida, Venezuela
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- Institute of Research for Forestry Development, Universidad de los Andes, Merida, Venezuela.,School of Environmental and Forest Sciences (SEFS), University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Universidad Autónoma del Beni, Riberalta, Bolivia
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- Instituto Amazónico de Investigaciones (IMANI), Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Amazonia, Brazil
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- Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Natureza, Universidade Federal do Acre, Rio Branco, Brazil
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- Broward County Parks and Recreation, Miami, FL, USA.,Biological Sciences, Florida Atlantic University-Davie, Miami, FL, USA
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- Museu Universitário, Universidade Federal do Acre, Rio Branco, Brazil
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- Universidad Autónoma del Beni, Riberalta, Bolivia
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- Facultad de Ingeniería Ambiental, Universidad Estatal Amazónica, Puyo, Ecuador
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- Department of Biology, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO, USA
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- National Institute for Space Research (INPE), São José dos Campos, Brazil
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- Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias, Biológicas e Sociais Aplicadas, Universidad do Estado de Mato Grosso, Nova Xavantina, Brazil
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- School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA
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- Department of Geography and the Environment, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
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- Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias, Biológicas e Sociais Aplicadas, Universidad do Estado de Mato Grosso, Nova Xavantina, Brazil
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- Instituto de Ciência e Tecnologia, São Paulo State University (UNESP), São José dos Campos, Brazil
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- Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado, Universidad Autónoma Gabriel Rene Moreno, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
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- Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad de Los Andes (Colombia), Bogotá, Colombia
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- School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK
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- Herbario Alfredo Paredes (QAP), Universidad Central del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador
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- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Instituto de Ecología, Herbario Nacional de Bolivia, La Paz, Bolivia
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- Universidad Tecnica del Norte, Herbario Nacional del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador
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- Research Institute Alexander von Humboldt, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Institute of Research for Forestry Development, Universidad de los Andes, Merida, Venezuela
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- Institute of Environment, Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA
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de Medeiros PM, Figueiredo KF, Gonçalves PHS, Caetano RDA, Santos ÉMDC, Dos Santos GMC, Barbosa DM, de Paula M, Mapeli AM. Wild plants and the food-medicine continuum-an ethnobotanical survey in Chapada Diamantina (Northeastern Brazil). JOURNAL OF ETHNOBIOLOGY AND ETHNOMEDICINE 2021; 17:37. [PMID: 34039374 PMCID: PMC8157413 DOI: 10.1186/s13002-021-00463-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2020] [Accepted: 05/12/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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BACKGROUND Ethnobotanical research has demonstrated that several wild food plants (WFP) are used for medicinal purposes. Therefore, in addition to constituting an important source of nutrients, WFP can be used to help treat and avoid health problems. This study sought to characterize the traditional use of plants considered simultaneously as food and medicine by local specialists in the community of Caeté-Açu, which borders Chapada Diamantina National Park (NE Brazil). We also sought to identify the variables that influence the species' cultural importance. METHODS We selected local specialists based on a snowball sample and used a free-listing technique to register the wild plants they knew that are both edible and medicinal. Then, we asked the specialists to rank each plant component cited according to the following attributes: (1) ease of acquisition, (2) taste, (3) smell, (4) nutritional value, and (5) medicinal value. We used multiple regression to determine the variables that influence the cultural salience. RESULTS The most culturally salient species was Anredera cordifolia (Ten.) Steenis. The main medicinal effects associated with this species were related to body strengthening, intestinal regulation, and stomach issues. The most salient used species were those that were easiest to acquire and had the highest perceived nutritional values. CONCLUSION It is likely that the sociocultural backgrounds of the respondents (elders, former miners, or descendants of miners) and the historical importance of wild food plants to local diets increased the predictive power of the perceived nutritional importance and ease of acquisition of these plants.
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- Patrícia Muniz de Medeiros
- Campus de Engenharias e Ciências Agrárias, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Br 104, s/n, Mata do Rolo, Rio Largo, Alagoas, 57100-000, Brazil.
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- Centro das Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Universidade Federal do Oeste da Bahia, Rua da Prainha, n 1326, Morada Nobre, Barreiras, Bahia, 47810-047, Brazil
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- Centro de Biociências, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Av. Reitor Joaquim Amazonas, s/n, Cidade Universitária, Recife, Pernambuco, 50740-570, Brazil
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- Instituto de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Av. Paulo Holanda, 143, Cidade Universitária, Maceió, Alagoas, 57072-900, Brazil
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- Instituto de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Av. Paulo Holanda, 143, Cidade Universitária, Maceió, Alagoas, 57072-900, Brazil
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- Instituto de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Av. Paulo Holanda, 143, Cidade Universitária, Maceió, Alagoas, 57072-900, Brazil
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- Instituto de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Av. Paulo Holanda, 143, Cidade Universitária, Maceió, Alagoas, 57072-900, Brazil
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- Centro das Ciências Exatas e das Tecnologias, Universidade Federal do Oeste da Bahia, Rua da Prainha, n 1326, Morada Nobre, Barreiras, Bahia, 47810-047, Brazil
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- Centro das Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Universidade Federal do Oeste da Bahia, Rua da Prainha, n 1326, Morada Nobre, Barreiras, Bahia, 47810-047, Brazil
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Molnár Z, Babai D. Inviting ecologists to delve deeper into traditional ecological knowledge. Trends Ecol Evol 2021; 36:679-690. [PMID: 34024622 DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2021.04.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2020] [Revised: 04/08/2021] [Accepted: 04/14/2021] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Ecologists and conservationists increasingly acknowledge that traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) is vital for a better understanding and conservation of biodiversity; for example, for a more complex socioecological understanding of long-term processes, ecosystem resilience, the impacts of traditional management practices, and the worldviews underpinning these practices. To gain a deeper understanding of the ecological dimensions of TEK, ecologists and conservation biologists should conduct participatory long-term collaborative research on TEK. To conduct TEK research properly, however, ecologists need to familiarize themselves more deeply with the methodologies of social sciences, further develop their links with social scientists, and adopt new approaches, such as strengthening respect towards other knowledge systems and being inclusive in research and open to new types of validation.
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- Centre for Ecological Research, Institute of Ecology and Botany, Traditional Ecological Knowledge Research Group, Vácrátót 2163, Hungary.
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- Research Centre for the Humanities, Institute of Ethnology, Ethnoecology Research Group, Budapest 1097, Hungary
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Facing Change through Diversity: Resilience and Diversification of Plant Management Strategies during the Mid to Late Holocene Transition at the Monte Castelo Shellmound, SW Amazonia. QUATERNARY 2021. [DOI: 10.3390/quat4010008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Recent advances in the archaeology of lowland South America are furthering our understanding of the Holocene development of plant cultivation and domestication, cultural niche construction, and relationships between environmental changes and cultural strategies of food production. This article offers new data on plant and landscape management and mobility in Southwestern Amazonia during a period of environmental change at the Middle to Late Holocene transition, based on archaeobotanical analysis of the Monte Castelo shellmound, occupied between 6000 and 650 yr BP and located in a modern, seasonally flooded savanna–forest mosaic. Through diachronic comparisons of carbonized plant remains, phytoliths, and starch grains, we construct an ecology of resource use and explore its implications for the long-term history of landscape formation, resource management practices, and mobility. We show how, despite important changes visible in the archaeological record of the shellmound during this period, there persisted an ancient, local, and resilient pattern of plant management which implies a degree of stability in both subsistence and settlement patterns over the last 6000 years. This pattern is characterized by management practices that relied on increasingly diversified, rather than intensive, food production systems. Our findings have important implications in debates regarding the history of settlement permanence, population growth, and carrying capacity in the Amazon basin.
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Flores BM, Holmgren M. White-Sand Savannas Expand at the Core of the Amazon After Forest Wildfires. Ecosystems 2021. [DOI: 10.1007/s10021-021-00607-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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AbstractAcross the tropics, climate change is increasing the frequency and severity of wildfires, exposing tropical forests to the risk of shifting into an open vegetation state. A recent satellite analysis of the Amazon basin suggests this might happen first in floodplains where forests are particularly fragile. We studied floodplain landscapes of the middle Rio Negro, covering ~ 4100 km2 at the Central Amazon region, where forest ecosystems are dominant. We used Landsat images to map 40 years of wildfire history and test the hypothesis that repeatedly burnt forests fail to regenerate and can be replaced by white-sand savanna ecosystems. In the field, using a chronosequence of ‘time after the first fire’, we assessed changes in tree species composition, herbaceous cover and topsoil properties. Here we show that when these forests are repeatedly disturbed by wildfires, their soil gradually loses clay and nutrients and becomes increasingly sandy. In synchrony, native herbaceous cover expands, forest tree species disappear and white-sand savanna tree species become dominant. This drastic ecosystem shift happened within 40 years, likely accelerated by topsoil erosion. When recurrent fires maintain floodplain forests in an open vegetation state, topsoil erosion intensifies, transforming clay-rich soils into white-sand soils that may favour savanna tree species. Our findings reveal that white-sand savannas may expand through seasonally flooded ecosystems at the core of the Amazon, facilitated by wildfires.
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McMichael CN. Ecological legacies of past human activities in Amazonian forests. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2021; 229:2492-2496. [PMID: 32815167 PMCID: PMC7891632 DOI: 10.1111/nph.16888] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2020] [Accepted: 07/21/2020] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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In Amazonia, human activities that occurred hundreds of years ago in the pre-European era can leave long-lasting effects on the forests - termed ecological legacies. These legacies include the intentional or nonintentional enrichment or depletion of certain species. The persistence of these legacies through time varies by species, and creates complex long-term trajectories of post-disturbance succession that affect ecosystem processes for hundreds of years. Most of our knowledge of Amazonian biodiversity and carbon storage comes from a series of several hundred forest plots, and we only know the disturbance history of four of them. More empirical data are needed to determine the degree to which past human activities and their ecological legacies affect our current understanding of Amazonian forest ecology.
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- Crystal N.H. McMichael
- Department of Ecosystem and Landscape DynamicsInstitute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem DynamicsUniversity of Amsterdam904 Science ParkAmsterdam1098 XHthe Netherlands
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The Neolithic Revolution narrative associates early-mid Holocene domestications with the development of agriculture that fueled the rise of late Holocene civilizations. This narrative continues to be influential, even though it has been deconstructed by archaeologists and geneticists in its homeland. To further disentangle domestication from reliance on food production systems, such as agriculture, we revisit definitions of domestication and food production systems, review the late Pleistocene–early Holocene archaeobotanical record, and quantify the use, management and domestication of Neotropical plants to provide insights about the past. Neotropical plant domestication relies on common human behaviors (selection, accumulation and caring) within agroecological systems that focus on individual plants, rather than populations—as is typical of agriculture. The early archaeobotanical record includes numerous perennial and annual species, many of which later became domesticated. Some of this evidence identifies dispersal with probable cultivation, suggesting incipient domestication by 10,000 years ago. Since the Pleistocene, more than 6500, 1206 and 6261 native plant species have been used in Mesoamerica, the Central Andes and lowland South America, respectively. At least 1555, 428 and 742 are managed outside and inside food production systems, and at least 1148, 428 and 600 are cultivated, respectively, suggesting at least incipient domestication. Full native domesticates are more numerous in Mesoamerica (251) than the Andes (124) and the lowlands (45). This synthesis reveals that domestication is more common in the Neotropics than previously recognized and started much earlier than reliance on food production systems. Hundreds of ethnic groups had, and some still have, alternative strategies that do involve domestication, although they do not rely principally on food production systems, such as agriculture.
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Fernández-Llamazares Á, López-Baucells A, Velazco PM, Gyawali A, Rocha R, Terraube J, Cabeza M. The importance of Indigenous Territories for conserving bat diversity across the Amazon biome. Perspect Ecol Conserv 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.pecon.2020.11.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Alcántara Rodríguez M, Pombo Geertsma I, Françozo M, van Andel T. Marcgrave and Piso's plants for sale: The presence of plant species and names from the Historia Naturalis Brasiliae (1648) in contemporary Brazilian markets. JOURNAL OF ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY 2020; 259:112911. [PMID: 32389855 DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2020.112911] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2019] [Revised: 04/17/2020] [Accepted: 04/22/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE Parallelisms between current and historical medicinal practices as described in the seventeenth century treatise Historia Naturalis Brasiliae (HNB) provide us with an overview of traditional plant knowledge transformations. Local markets reflect the actual plant use in urban and rural surroundings, allowing us to trace cross-century similarities of ethnobotanical knowledge. AIMS OF THE STUDY We aim to verify in how far the HNB, created in seventeenth-century northeastern Brazil, correlates with contemporary plant use in the country by comparing the plant knowledge therein with recent plant market surveys at national level. MATERIALS AND METHODS We conducted a literature review on ethnobotanical market surveys in Brazil. We used the retrieved data on plant composition and vernacular names, together with our own fieldwork from the Ver-o-Peso market in Belém, to compare each market repertoire with the useful species in the HNB. We analyzed similarities among markets and the HNB with a Detrended Correspondence Analysis and by creating Venn diagrams. We analyzed the methods of the different markets to check whether they influenced our results. RESULTS Out of the 24 markets reviewed, the greatest similarities with the HNB are seen in northern Brazilian markets, both in plant composition and vernacular names, followed by the northeast. The least overlap is found with markets in the central west and Rio de Janeiro. Most of the shared vernacular names with the HNB belonged to languages of the Tupi linguistic family. CONCLUSION The similarity patterns in floristic composition among Brazilian markets and the HNB indicate the current wider distribution and trade of the species that Marcgrave and Piso described in 1648 in the northeast. Migration of indigenous groups, environmental changes, globalized and homogenous plant trade, and different market survey methods played a role in these results. The HNB is a reference point in time that captures a moment of colonial cultural transformations.
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- Faculty of Science, University of Amsterdam. Science Park 904, 1098, XH Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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- Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University. Einsteinweg 2, 2333, CC, Leiden, the Netherlands; Associate Professor in Museum Studies, PI ERC BRASILIAE Project, Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, the Netherlands.
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- Clusius Chair in History of Botany and Gardens, Institute for Biology, Leiden University, Sylviusweg 72, 2333, BE, Leiden, the Netherlands; Naturalis Biodiversity Center, PO Box 9517, 2300, RA, Leiden, the Netherlands.
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Archibald JL, Anderson CB, Dicenta M, Roulier C, Slutz K, Nielsen EA. The relevance of social imaginaries to understand and manage biological invasions in southern Patagonia. Biol Invasions 2020. [DOI: 10.1007/s10530-020-02325-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Genetic Structure and Pod Morphology of Inga edulis Cultivated vs. Wild Populations from the Peruvian Amazon. FORESTS 2020. [DOI: 10.3390/f11060655] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Research Highlights: This study assesses the genetic diversity and structure of the ice-cream-bean (Inga edulis Mart.; Fabaceae) in wild and cultivated populations from the Peruvian Amazon. This research also highlights the importance of protecting the biodiversity of the forest in the Peruvian Amazon, to preserve the genetic resources of species and allow further genetic improvement. Background and Objectives: Ice-cream-bean is one of the most commonly used species in the Amazon region for its fruits and for shading protection of other species (e.g., cocoa and coffee plantations). Comprehensive studies about the impact of domestication on this species’ genetic diversity are needed, to find the best conservation and improvement strategies. Materials and Methods: In the current study, the genetic structure and diversity were assessed by genotyping 259 trees, sampled in five wild and 22 cultivated I. edulis populations in the Peruvian Amazon, with microsatellite markers. Pod length was measured in wild and cultivated trees. Results: The average pod length in cultivated trees was significantly higher than that in wild trees. The expected genetic diversity and the average number of alleles was higher in the wild compared to the cultivated populations; thus, a loss of genetic diversity was confirmed in the cultivated populations. The cultivated trees in the Loreto region had the highest pod length and lowest allelic richness; nevertheless, the wild populations’ genetic structure was not clearly differentiated (significantly different) from that of the cultivated populations. Conclusions: A loss of genetic diversity was confirmed in the cultivated populations. The species could have been simultaneously domesticated in multiple locations, usually from local origin. The original I. edulis Amazonian germplasm should be maintained. Cultivated populations’ new germplasm influx from wild populations should be undertaken to increase genetic diversity.
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Lullfitz A, Dabb A, Reynolds R(D, Knapp L, Pettersen C, Hopper SD. Contemporary distribution of
Macrozamia dyeri
(Zamiaceae) is correlated with patterns of Nyungar occupation in south‐east coastal Western Australia. AUSTRAL ECOL 2020. [DOI: 10.1111/aec.12907] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Alison Lullfitz
- Centre of Excellence in Natural Resource Management University of Western Australia 35 Stirling Terrace Albany WA 6330 Australia
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- Esperance Tjaltjraak Native Title Aboriginal Corporation Esperance WA Australia
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- Esperance Tjaltjraak Native Title Aboriginal Corporation Esperance WA Australia
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- Centre of Excellence in Natural Resource Management University of Western Australia 35 Stirling Terrace Albany WA 6330 Australia
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- Centre of Excellence in Natural Resource Management University of Western Australia 35 Stirling Terrace Albany WA 6330 Australia
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- Centre of Excellence in Natural Resource Management University of Western Australia 35 Stirling Terrace Albany WA 6330 Australia
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Caetano-Andrade VL, Clement CR, Weigel D, Trumbore S, Boivin N, Schöngart J, Roberts P. Tropical Trees as Time Capsules of Anthropogenic Activity. TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2020; 25:369-380. [PMID: 32037081 DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2019.12.010] [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: 07/17/2019] [Revised: 12/03/2019] [Accepted: 12/09/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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After the ice caps, tropical forests are globally the most threatened terrestrial environments. Modern trees are not just witnesses to growing contemporary threats but also legacies of past human activity. Here, we review the use of dendrochronology, radiocarbon analysis, stable isotope analysis, and DNA analysis to examine ancient tree management. These methods exploit the fact that living trees record information on environmental and anthropogenic selective forces during their own and past generations of growth, making trees living archaeological 'sites'. The applicability of these methods across prehistoric, historic, and industrial periods means they have the potential to detect evolving anthropogenic threats and can be used to set conservation priorities in rapidly vanishing environments.
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Biogeochemical Processes, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
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- Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany; Department of Archaeology, University of Queensland, St Lucia QLD, 4072, Brisbane, Australia
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- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
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- Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany; Department of Archaeology, University of Queensland, St Lucia QLD, 4072, Brisbane, Australia
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Lullfitz A, Byrne M, Knapp L, Hopper SD. Platysace (Apiaceae) of south-western Australia: silent story tellers of an ancient human landscape. Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2020. [DOI: 10.1093/biolinnean/blaa035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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AbstractHigh gene flow and a population structure corresponding to human rather than geographical drivers are likely to be genetic patterns of human-dispersed plant taxa. We examined variation in geographical structure and gene flow estimates based on three non-coding regions of plastid DNA in three south-west Australian members of the Platysace genus to identify whether a human influence on dispersion of utilized taxa was detectable. Edible tubers of Platysace deflexa and Platysace trachymenioides have been harvested historically by Noongar traditional owners, whereas Platysace effusa has no known cultural significance. We found differences between utilized and non-utilized taxa, particularly when considered against the generally complex phylogeographical patterning in south-west Australian plant taxa. Platysace effusa showed a pattern of high population divergence, low gene flow and multiple refugia, consistent with a long evolutionary history, past climatic oscillations and persistence in a highly fragmented landscape. In contrast, higher gene flow estimates, less divergence between populations and common haplotypes in P. deflexa and in P. trachymenioides over the south-eastern part of its range are consistent with anthropogenic influences. This study contributes to the understanding of human influences on south-west Australian plant taxa that have been present since the late Pleistocene, but to date have received little scientific attention.
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- Alison Lullfitz
- Centre of Excellence in Natural Resource Management, School of Agriculture & Environment, The University of Western Australia, Albany, WA, Australia
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- Biodiversity and Conservation Science, Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, Bentley Delivery Centre, WA, Australia
- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia
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- Centre of Excellence in Natural Resource Management, School of Agriculture & Environment, The University of Western Australia, Albany, WA, Australia
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- Centre of Excellence in Natural Resource Management, School of Agriculture & Environment, The University of Western Australia, Albany, WA, Australia
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Seed Networks for Upscaling Forest Landscape Restoration: Is It Possible to Expand Native Plant Sources in Brazil? FORESTS 2020. [DOI: 10.3390/f11030259] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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In this paper, we explore how diverse community networks in Brazil have locally advanced seed production and institutional systems to enhance a restoration economy. By focusing on the experiences of the six major native seed suppliers in Amazonia, the Cerrado, and the Atlantic Forest, we estimate the capacity to scale-up community-based systems to meet a large-scale restoration target as a rural development strategy. Over one decade, 1016 collectors traded 416.91 tonnes of native seeds representing, on average, 31.41 kilos yearly and USD 256.5 as household income. Based on this well documented empirical evidence, we estimate that Brazil’s restoration goal would require from 3.6 to 15.6 thousand tonnes of native seeds depending on the share of each restoration method adopted with potential work opportunities for 13.2 to 57.1 thousand collectors yearly and total income from USD 34 to 146 million. We argue that community networks represent feasible arrangements for increasing the availability of plant material sources which provide high socio-economic benefits. For scaling up native seed sources, we suggest the following key strategies: (i) government incentives and subsidies; (ii) enforcement of ecosystem restoration; (iii) community participation; (iv) adaptation of the seed regulations; (v) technological development; and (vi) seed market diversification.
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