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Integrated palaeoecology and archaeology – a powerful approach for understanding pre-Columbian Amazonia by Mayle, Francis E., Iriarte, José

“…The old paradigm that Amazonia's tropical ecosystems prevented cultural development beyond small-scale shifting agricultural economies, that had little…”
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Impact of pre-Columbian “geoglyph” builders on Amazonian forests by Watling, Jennifer, Iriarte, José, Mayle, Francis E., Schaan, Denise, Pessenda, Luiz C. R., Loader, Neil J., Street-Perrott, F. Alayne, Dickau, Ruth E., Damasceno, Antonia, Ranzi, Alceu

“…Over 450 pre-Columbian (pre-AD 1492) geometric ditched enclosures (“geoglyphs”) occupy ∼13,000 km² of Acre state, Brazil, representing a key discovery of…”
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Response of Amazonian forests to mid‐Holocene drought: A model‐data comparison by Smith, Richard J., Singarayer, Joy S., Mayle, Francis E.

“…There is a major concern for the fate of Amazonia over the coming century in the face of anthropogenic climate change. A key area of uncertainty is the scale…”
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Impact of a drier Early–Mid-Holocene climate upon Amazonian forests by Mayle, Francis E, Power, Mitchell J

“…8000–4000 years ago) upon Amazonia's forests and their fire regimes. Palaeovegetation (pollen data) and palaeofire (charcoal) records are synthesized from 20…”
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Environmental impact of geometric earthwork construction in pre-Columbian Amazonia by Carson, John Francis, Whitney, Bronwen S., Mayle, Francis E., Iriarte, José, Prümers, Heiko, Soto, J. Daniel, Watling, Jennifer

“…There is considerable controversy over whether pre-Columbian (pre-A.D. 1492) Amazonia was largely “pristine” and sparsely populated by slash-and-burn…”
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Cold spot microrefugia hold the key to survival for Brazil's Critically Endangered Araucaria tree by Wilson, Oliver J., Walters, Richard J., Mayle, Francis E., Lingner, Débora V., Vibrans, Alexander C.

“…Brazil's Araucaria tree (Araucaria angustifolia) is an iconic living fossil and a defining element of the Atlantic Forest global biodiversity hotspot. But…”
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Late Quaternary environmental change in the interior South American tropics: new insight from leaf wax stable isotopes by Fornace, Kyrstin L., Whitney, Bronwen S., Galy, Valier, Hughen, Konrad A., Mayle, Francis E.

“…Stable isotope analysis of leaf waxes in a sediment core from Laguna La Gaiba, a shallow lake located at the Bolivian margin of the Pantanal wetlands, provides…”
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Holocene land cover change in south-western Amazonia inferred from paleoflood archives by Lombardo, Umberto, Ruiz-Pérez, Javier, Rodrigues, Leonor, Mestrot, Adrien, Mayle, Francis, Madella, Marco, Szidat, Sönke, Veit, Heinz

“…This study provides new data on the evolution of the landscape in south-western Amazonia during the Holocene and the impact of climate change and fluvial…”
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Evidence confirms an anthropic origin of Amazonian Dark Earths by Lombardo, Umberto, Arroyo-Kalin, Manuel, Schmidt, Morgan, Huisman, Hans, Lima, Helena P., de Paula Moraes, Claide, Neves, Eduardo G., Clement, Charles R., Aires da Fonseca, João, de Almeida, Fernando Ozorio, Vieira Alho, Carlos Francisco Brazão, Bronk Ramsey, Christopher, Brown, George G., Cavallini, Marta S., Lima da Costa, Marcondes, Cunha, Luís, dos Anjos, Lúcia Helena C., Denevan, William M., Fausto, Carlos, Fernandes Caromano, Caroline, Fontana, Ademir, Franchetto, Bruna, Glaser, Bruno, Heckenberger, Michael J., Hecht, Susanna, Honorato, Vinicius, Jarosch, Klaus A., Braga Junqueira, André, Kater, Thiago, Tamanaha, Eduardo K., Kuyper, Thomas W., Lehmann, Johannes, Madella, Marco, Maezumi, S. Yoshi, Matthews Cascon, Leandro, Mayle, Francis E., McKey, Doyle, Moraes, Bruno, Morcote-Ríos, Gaspar, Palheta Barbosa, Carlos A., Magalhães, Marcos Pereira, Prestes-Carneiro, Gabriela, Pugliese, Francisco, Pupim, Fabiano N., Raczka, Marco F., Py-Daniel, Anne Rapp, Riris, Philip, Cigaran da Rocha, Bruna, Rodrigues, Leonor, Rostain, Stéphen, Macedo, Rodrigo Santana, Shock, Myrtle P., Sprafke, Tobias, Stampanoni Bassi, Filippo, Valle, Raoni, Vidal-Torrado, Pablo, Villagrán, Ximena S., Watling, Jennifer, Weber, Sadie L., Teixeira, Wenceslau Geraldes

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Fire-free land use in pre-1492 Amazonian savannas by Iriarte, José, Power, Mitchell J., Rostain, Stéphen, Mayle, Francis E., Jones, Huw, Watling, Jennifer, Whitney, Bronwen S., McKey, Doyle B.

“…The nature and scale of pre-Columbian land use and the consequences of the 1492 "Columbian Encounter" (CE) on Amazonia are among the more debated topics in New…”
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Differentiation of neotropical ecosystems by modern soil phytolith assemblages and its implications for palaeoenvironmental and archaeological reconstructions by Dickau, Ruth, Whitney, Bronwen S., Iriarte, José, Mayle, Francis E., Soto, J. Daniel, Metcalfe, Phil, Street-Perrott, F. Alayne, Loader, Neil J., Ficken, Katherine J., Killeen, Timothy J.

“…The interpretation of Neotropical fossil phytolith assemblages for palaeoenvironmental and archaeological reconstructions relies on the development of…”
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Long-term forest–savannah dynamics in the Bolivian Amazon: implications for conservation by Mayle, Francis E, Langstroth, Robert P, Fisher, Rosie A, Meir, Patrick

“…The aim of this paper is to evaluate the respective roles of past changes in climate, geomorphology and human activities in shaping the present-day…”
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Climate change and cultural resilience in late pre-Columbian Amazonia by de Souza, Jonas Gregorio, Robinson, Mark, Maezumi, S. Yoshi, Capriles, José, Hoggarth, Julie A., Lombardo, Umberto, Novello, Valdir Felipe, Apaéstegui, James, Whitney, Bronwen, Urrego, Dunia, Alves, Daiana Travassos, Rostain, Stephen, Power, Mitchell J., Mayle, Francis E., da Cruz, Francisco William, Hooghiemstra, Henry, Iriarte, José

“…The long-term response of ancient societies to climate change has been a matter of global debate. Until recently, the lack of integrative studies using…”
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Modelling the distribution of Amazonian tree species in response to long‐term climate change during the Mid‐Late Holocene by Gomes, Vitor H. F., Mayle, Francis E., Gosling, William D., Vieira, Ima C. G., Salomão, Rafael P., Steege, Hans

“…Aim To (a) assess the environmental suitability for rainforest tree species of Moraceae and Urticaceae across Amazonia during the Mid‐Late Holocene and (b)…”
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A 45 kyr palaeoclimate record from the lowland interior of tropical South America by Whitney, Bronwen S., Mayle, Francis E., Punyasena, Surangi W., Fitzpatrick, Katharine A., Burn, Michael J., Guillen, René, Chavez, Ezequiel, Mann, David, Pennington, R. Toby, Metcalfe, Sarah E.

“…We present a well-dated, high-resolution, ~ 45 kyr lake sediment record reflecting regional temperature and precipitation change in the continental interior of…”
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Pre-Columbian raised-field agriculture and land use in the Bolivian Amazon by Whitney, Bronwen S, Dickau, Ruth, Mayle, Francis E, Walker, John H, Soto, J Daniel, Iriarte, José

“…We present an integrated palaeoecological and archaeobotanical study of pre-Columbian raised-field agriculture in the Llanos de Moxos, a vast seasonally…”
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Pre-Columbian land use in the ring-ditch region of the Bolivian Amazon by Carson, John F, Watling, Jennifer, Mayle, Francis E, Whitney, Bronwen S, Iriarte, José, Prümers, Heiko, Soto, J Daniel

“…The nature and extent of pre-Columbian (pre-AD 1492) human impact in Amazonia is a contentious issue. The Bolivian Amazon has yielded some of the most…”
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Pediastrum species as potential indicators of lake-level change in tropical South America by Whitney, Bronwen S, Mayle, Francis E

“…We explored the potential for using Pediastrum (Meyen), a genus of green alga commonly found in palaeoecological studies, as a proxy for lake-level change in…”
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Diversity of cultivars and other plant resources used at habitation sites in the Llanos de Mojos, Beni, Bolivia: evidence from macrobotanical remains, starch grains, and phytoliths by Dickau, Ruth, Bruno, Maria C., Iriarte, José, Prümers, Heiko, Jaimes Betancourt, Carla, Holst, Irene, Mayle, Francis E.

“…Although sparsely populated today, the Llanos de Mojos, Bolivia, sustained large sedentary societies in the Late Holocene (ca. 500 to 1400 AD). In order to…”
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Constraining pollen-based estimates of forest cover in the Amazon: A simulation approach by Whitney, Bronwen S, Smallman, T Luke, Mitchard, Edward TA, Carson, John F, Mayle, Francis E, Bunting, M Jane

“…Pollen dispersal and deposition (PDD) modelling has been instrumental in reconstructing historical vegetation in temperate regions, but its application has…”
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