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View article: Assessing coastal development impacts on Indigenous Peoples
Assessing coastal development impacts on Indigenous Peoples Open
Socio-environmental conflicts are increasing in coastal areas across the world, with significant impacts on coastal environments and people. Owing to their location at the meeting of the land and the sea, coastal regions are experiencing g…
View article: Low degree of domestication can be an indicator of high potential of biological invasion
Low degree of domestication can be an indicator of high potential of biological invasion Open
The degree of domestication can influence the ability of introduced species to survive and reproduce. Species with higher degrees of domestication are highly dependent on humans for survival and reproduction. On the other hand, lower degre…
View article: Ten New Insights in Climate Science 2024
Ten New Insights in Climate Science 2024 Open
Climate change research is broad, diverse and constantly growing. Cross- and interdisciplinary understanding is essential for generating robust science advice for policy. However, it is challenging to prioritise and navigate the ever-expan…
View article: Safeguard stewards of biodiversity knowledge
Safeguard stewards of biodiversity knowledge Open
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View article: Author Correction: One sixth of Amazonian tree diversity is dependent on river floodplains
Author Correction: One sixth of Amazonian tree diversity is dependent on river floodplains Open
Correction to: Nature Ecology & Evolution https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-024-02364-1, published online 11 March 2024. In the version of the article initially published, the affiliation of Edgardo Manuel Latrubesse was incorrect and has now…
View article: One sixth of Amazonian tree diversity is dependent on river floodplains
One sixth of Amazonian tree diversity is dependent on river floodplains Open
Amazonia’s floodplain system is the largest and most biodiverse on Earth. Although forests are crucial to the ecological integrity of floodplains, our understanding of their species composition and how this may differ from surrounding fore…
View article: Data from: More than 10,000 pre-Columbian earthworks are still hidden throughout Amazonia
Data from: More than 10,000 pre-Columbian earthworks are still hidden throughout Amazonia Open
Dataset: This set of data and R computer codes were used to create the predictive model, figures, and develop analysis on the manuscript "Over 10,000 Pre-Columbian earthworks are still hidden throughout Amazonia" submitted to Science journ…
View article: Data from: More than 10,000 pre-Columbian earthworks are still hidden throughout Amazonia
Data from: More than 10,000 pre-Columbian earthworks are still hidden throughout Amazonia Open
Dataset: This set of data and R computer codes were used to create the predictive model, figures, and develop analysis on the manuscript "Over 10,000 Pre-Columbian earthworks are still hidden throughout Amazonia" submitted to Science journ…
View article: More than 10,000 pre-Columbian earthworks are still hidden throughout Amazonia
More than 10,000 pre-Columbian earthworks are still hidden throughout Amazonia Open
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) inform…
View article: Data from: Over 10,000 Pre-Columbian earthworks are still hidden throughout Amazonia
Data from: Over 10,000 Pre-Columbian earthworks are still hidden throughout Amazonia Open
Dataset: This set of data and R computer codes were used to create the predictive model, figures, and develop analysis on the manuscript "Over 10,000 Pre-Columbian earthworks are still hidden throughout Amazonia" submitted to Science journ…
View article: Local forest specialists maintain traditional ecological knowledge in the face of environmental threats to Brazilian Amazonian protected areas
Local forest specialists maintain traditional ecological knowledge in the face of environmental threats to Brazilian Amazonian protected areas Open
There is a concern that environmental threats that result in local biodiversity loss compromise traditional peoples’ livelihoods and their traditional ecological knowledge (TEK). Nonetheless, studies usually only analyze how people’s chara…
View article: Policy Brief: A Call for Global Action to Move the Amazon Forest System Away from Tipping Points (Extended Version)
Policy Brief: A Call for Global Action to Move the Amazon Forest System Away from Tipping Points (Extended Version) Open
Global climate change, the conversion of large areas of tropical forest to agriculture and rangelands, and forest degradation driven by wildfires are pushing the Amazon towards irreversible thresholds, often called tipping points. We need …
View article: Correction: Pre-colonial Amerindian legacies in forest composition of southern Brazil
Correction: Pre-colonial Amerindian legacies in forest composition of southern Brazil Open
[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0235819.].
View article: Indigenous and Traditional Management Creates and Maintains the Diversity of Ecosystems of South American Tropical Savannas
Indigenous and Traditional Management Creates and Maintains the Diversity of Ecosystems of South American Tropical Savannas Open
The tropical South American savannas have been occupied and manipulated by humans since the late Pleistocene. Ecologists consider that soils, hydrology, and seasonal precipitation influence the structure and composition of plants and the f…
View article: Naturalness Is in the Eye of the Beholder
Naturalness Is in the Eye of the Beholder Open
World conservation discourse concentrates on forests of high naturalness, which are variously termed intact forest landscapes, primary forests, pristine forests, and wilderness. In this essay, we bring Amazonian Indigenous perspectives to …
View article: Chapter 8: Peoples of the Amazon before European Colonization
Chapter 8: Peoples of the Amazon before European Colonization Open
Archaeology tells us how Indigenous peoples transformed nature in the Amazon over the millennia to the point that it is difficult to separate natural from cultural patrimony there today. It also shows that any kind of sustainable future fo…
View article: Eighty-four per cent of all Amazonian arboreal plant individuals are useful to humans
Eighty-four per cent of all Amazonian arboreal plant individuals are useful to humans Open
Plants have been used in Amazonian forests for millennia and some of these plants are disproportionally abundant (hyperdominant). At local scales, people generally use the most abundant plants, which may be abundant as the result of manage…
View article: <i>Unraveling Amazon tree community assembly using Maximum Information Entropy</i>: a quantitative analysis of tropical forest ecology
<i>Unraveling Amazon tree community assembly using Maximum Information Entropy</i>: a quantitative analysis of tropical forest ecology Open
In a time of rapid global change, the question of what determines patterns in species abundance distribution remains a priority for understanding the complex dynamics of ecosystems. The constrained maximization of information entropy provi…
View article: Disentangling Domestication from Food Production Systems in the Neotropics
Disentangling Domestication from Food Production Systems in the Neotropics Open
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 de…
View article: Reframing Pre-European Amazonia through an Anthropocene Lens
Reframing Pre-European Amazonia through an Anthropocene Lens Open
This article examines three intertwined forms of human transformation of Amazonia’s landscapes: (1) anthrosols, (2) cultural or domesticated forests, and (3) anthropogenic earthworks. By acknowledging the extent to which landscapes are hum…
View article: Pre-colonial Amerindian legacies in forest composition of southern Brazil
Pre-colonial Amerindian legacies in forest composition of southern Brazil Open
Past human societies have left persistent marks on forests worldwide. However, the degree to which pre-colonial Amerindian societies have affected forest structure is still not fully understood, especially in southern Brazil. This study in…
View article: Pre-Columbian soil fertilization and current management maintain food resource availability in old-growth Amazonian forests
Pre-Columbian soil fertilization and current management maintain food resource availability in old-growth Amazonian forests Open
Aims The extent and persistence of pre-Columbian human legacies in old-growth Amazonian forests are still controversial, partly because modern societies re-occupied old settlements, challenging the distinction between pre- and post-Columbi…
View article: Growth rings of Brazil nut trees (Bertholletia excelsa) as a living record of historical human disturbance in Central Amazonia
Growth rings of Brazil nut trees (Bertholletia excelsa) as a living record of historical human disturbance in Central Amazonia Open
The Brazil nut tree (Bertholletia excelsa) is an iconic and economically valuable species that dominates vast swathes of the Amazon Basin. This species seems to have been an important part of human subsistence strategies in the region from…
View article: Legacies of intensive management in forests around pre-columbian and modern settlements in the Madeira-Tapajós interfluve, Amazonia
Legacies of intensive management in forests around pre-columbian and modern settlements in the Madeira-Tapajós interfluve, Amazonia Open
Amazonian peoples use and manage plant populations in previously domesticated landscapes, but the extent of landscape transformation remains uncertain, especially in interfluvial areas. We tested the hypothesis that useful plant communitie…