ReviewThe New phytologist2021
Ecological legacies of past human activities in Amazonian forests.
Review in The New phytologist, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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12 citing papers in PubMed.
- Interpretable machine learning reveals daytime and nighttime forest fire point drivers in Guizhou.iScience · 2026Article
- The forest of knowledge under global change.Nature · 2026Article
- Centuries of compounding human influence on Amazonian forests.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Ecological legacies and recent footprints of the Amazon's Lost City.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Phytolith assemblages reflect variability in human land use and the modern environment.Vegetation history and archaeobotany · 2024Article
- Long-term fire and vegetation change in northwestern Amazonia.Biotropica · 2023Article
- Early to mid-Holocene human activity exerted gradual influences on Amazonian forest vegetation.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Tropical forests in the deep human past.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Potential distributions of pre-Columbian people in Tropical Andean landscapes.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022Article
- A palaeoecological perspective on the transformation of the tropical Andes by early human activity.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022Review
- Plant species richness at archaeological sites suggests ecological legacy of Indigenous subsistence on the Colorado Plateau.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- Ecosystem services show variable responses to future climate conditions in the Colombian páramos.PeerJ · 2021Article
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Abstract
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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