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Comment on “Persistent effects of pre-Columbian plant domestication on Amazonian forest composition”
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Levis et al . (Research Articles, 3 March 2017, p. 925) concluded that pre-Columbian tree domestication has shaped present-day Amazonian forest composition. The study, however, downplays five centuries of human influence following European arrival to the Americas. We show that the effects of post-Columbian activities in Amazonia are likely to have played a larger role than pre-Columbian ones in shaping the observed floristic patterns.
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Impacts of past activities on modern forest structures near ancient settlements are long-lasting and may influence current estimates of tropical forest composition.
“These studies show that the impacts of past activities on modern forest structures near the location of ancient settlements are long-lasting, to the extent that they may influence our current estimates of forest composition in tropical forests, such as the Amazon7,8, the eastern flank of the tropical Andes6, and the neotropical forests of Central America9–11.”
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- McMichael, C. H., Feeley, K. J., Dick, C. W., Piperno, D. R., & Bush, M. B.
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- Science
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- 2017-10-20
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- 358
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- 6361
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- 0036-8075
- 1095-9203
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- Language
- en
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