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ArticlePlants (Basel, Switzerland)2024

Past Fire and Vegetation Change in the Hyperdiverse Forests of the Ecuadorian Amazon.

Britte M Heijink, Annabel Zwarts, Nina H Witteveen, Jessica Watson, Arie Ebbenhorst, Fedde Veenman, Mats Kessel, Susana León-Yánez, Juan Ernesto Guevara-Andino, María-José Endara and 3 more

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Article in Plants (Basel, Switzerland), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Centuries of compounding human influence on Amazonian forests.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors.

Britte M HeijinkDepartment of Ecosystem and Landscape Dynamics, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, 1012 WP Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Annabel ZwartsDepartment of Ecosystem and Landscape Dynamics, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, 1012 WP Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Nina H WitteveenDepartment of Ecosystem and Landscape Dynamics, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, 1012 WP Amsterdam, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0003-0214-4238
Jessica WatsonInstitute for Global Change, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL 32901, USA.
Arie EbbenhorstDepartment of Ecosystem and Landscape Dynamics, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, 1012 WP Amsterdam, The Netherlands.ORCID 0009-0009-7395-4327
Fedde VeenmanDepartment of Ecosystem and Landscape Dynamics, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, 1012 WP Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Mats KesselDepartment of Ecosystem and Landscape Dynamics, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, 1012 WP Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Susana León-YánezEscuela de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito 170143, Ecuador.ORCID 0000-0002-8733-135X
Juan Ernesto Guevara-AndinoGrupo de Investigación en Ecología y Evolución en los Trópicos-EETrop, Universidad de las Américas, Quito 170124, Ecuador.
María-José EndaraGrupo de Investigación en Ecología y Evolución en los Trópicos-EETrop, Universidad de las Américas, Quito 170124, Ecuador.ORCID 0000-0002-8805-1456
Gonzalo Rivas-TorresEstación de Biodiversidad Tiputini, Colegio de Ciencias Biológicas y Ambientales, Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ), Quito 170901, Ecuador.ORCID 0000-0002-2704-8288
Mark B BushInstitute for Global Change, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL 32901, USA.
Crystal N H McMichaelDepartment of Ecosystem and Landscape Dynamics, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, 1012 WP Amsterdam, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-1064-1499

Funding

European Research Council StG 853394National Science Foundation NSFEAR-1303831Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research ALWOP.322
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Ecuadorian Amazon holds more biodiversity than most other places on Earth. Palms are a particularly dominant component of the vegetation; however, it remains unknown to what degree the pattern has persisted through time. Here, we investigate the persistence of palm dominance through time and the degree to which past human activities (e.g., fire, cultivation, and forest opening) have affected changes in palm abundances across five regions of the Ecuadorian Amazon. We analyzed soil cores (40-80 cm depth) from each region for charcoal (evidence of past fire) and phytoliths (evidence of past vegetation change). The timings of fires (based on

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charcoalfireforest managementhuman influencehyperdominantpaleoecologypalmsphytolithstropical forests

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PMID39124166
PMCPMC11313904

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