TY - JOUR
T1 - Centuries of compounding human influence on Amazonian forests
AU - McMichael, Crystal N.H.
AU - Bush, Mark B.
AU - ter Steege, Hans
AU - Piperno, Dolores R.
AU - Gosling, William D.
AU - Nascimento, Majoi N.
AU - Lombardo, Umberto
AU - de Souza Coelho, Luiz
AU - do Amaral, Iêda Leão
AU - de Almeida Matos, Francisca Dionízia
AU - de Andrade Lima Filho, Diógenes
AU - Castilho, Carolina V.
AU - Wittmann, Florian
AU - Guevara-Andino, Juan Ernesto
AU - Magnusson, William E.
AU - Salomão, Rafael P.
AU - Phillips, Oliver L.
AU - Revilla, Juan David Cardenas
AU - Irume, Mariana Victória
AU - Martins, Maria Pires
AU - Piedade, Maria Teresa Fernandez
AU - Ramos, José Ferreira
AU - Pitman, Nigel C.A.
AU - Luize, Bruno Garcia
AU - de Leão Novo, Evlyn Márcia Moraes
AU - Vargas, Percy Núñez
AU - Silva, Thiago Sanna Freire
AU - Venticinque, Eduardo Martins
AU - Manzatto, Angelo Gilberto
AU - Reis, Neidiane Farias Costa
AU - Casula, Katia Regina
AU - Honorio Coronado, Euridice N.
AU - Montero, Juan Carlos
AU - Schöngart, Jochen
AU - Arboleda, Nicolás Castaño
AU - Mendoza, Abel Monteagudo
AU - Zartman, Charles Eugene
AU - Vasquez, Rodolfo
AU - Mostacedo, Bonifacio
AU - Terborgh, John
AU - Demarchi, Layon O.
AU - Assis, Rafael L.
AU - de Medeiro, Marcelo Brilhante
AU - Quaresma, Adriano Costa
AU - Simon, Marcelo Fragomeni
AU - Andrade, Ana
AU - Camargo, José Luís
AU - Feldpausch, Ted R.
AU - Killeen, Timothy J.
AU - Laurance, William F.
AU - Laurance, Susan G.W.
AU - Rincón, Lorena Maniguaje
AU - de Sousa Farias, Emanuelle
AU - Nascimento, Henrique Eduardo Mendonça
AU - Cintra, Bruno Barçante Ladvocat
AU - Baker, Tim R.
AU - Feitosa, Yuri Oliveira
AU - Mogollón, Hugo F.
AU - Araujo-Murakami, Alejandro
AU - Brienen, Roel
AU - Lopes, Maria Aparecida
AU - Magalhães, José Leonardo Lima
AU - de Queiroz, Helder Lima
AU - Comiskey, James A.
AU - Marimon, Beatriz S.
AU - Marimon-Junior, Ben Hur
AU - Damasco, Gabriel
AU - Draper, Freddie C.
AU - García-Villacorta, Roosevelt
AU - Lopes, Aline
AU - Vicentini, Alberto
AU - Valverde, Fernando Cornejo
AU - Alonso, Alfonso
AU - Dallmeier, Francisco
AU - Ferreira, Leandro Valle
AU - Gomes, Vitor H.F.
AU - de Aguiar, Daniel P.P.
AU - Carvalho, Fernanda Antunes
AU - Gribel, Rogerio
AU - Pansonato, Marcelo Petratti
AU - Aymard, Gerardo A.C.
AU - Fine, Paul V.A.
AU - Licona, Juan Carlos
AU - Zegarra, Boris Eduardo Villa
AU - Vos, Vincent Antoine
AU - Arroyo, Luzmila
AU - Cerón, Carlos
AU - Silveira, Marcos
AU - Stropp, Juliana
AU - Daly, Doug
AU - Milliken, William
AU - Molina, Guido Pardo
AU - Paredes, Marcos Ríos
AU - Barlow, Jos
AU - Berenguer, Erika
AU - do Amaral, Dário Dantas
AU - Ferreira, Joice
AU - Jimenez, Eliana M.
AU - Klitgaard, Bente
AU - Mora, Maria Cristina Peñuela
AU - Peres, Carlos A.
AU - Stevenson, Pablo R.
AU - Dexter, Kyle G.
AU - Fiore, Anthony Di
AU - Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, Isau
AU - Pena, José Luis Marcelo
AU - Pennington, Toby
AU - de Oliveira Pereira, Luciana
AU - Phillips, Juan Fernando
AU - Rivas-Torres, Gonzalo
AU - von Hildebrand, Patricio
AU - Noronha, Janaína Costa
AU - Barbosa, Edelcilio Marques
AU - Barbosa, Flávia Rodrigues
AU - de Matos Bonates, Luiz Carlos
AU - de Sá Carpandeo, Rainiellen
AU - Doza, Hilda Paulette Dávila
AU - Fuentes, Alfredo
AU - Gómez, Ricardo Zárate
AU - Gonzales, Therany
AU - Gonzales, George Pepe Gallardo
AU - Malhi, Yadvinder
AU - de Andrade Miranda, Ires Paula
AU - Pinto, Linder Felipe Mozombite
AU - Prieto, Adriana
AU - de Jesus Rodrigues, Domingos
AU - Rudas, Agustín
AU - Tello, J. Sebastián
AU - Vela, César I.A.
AU - Albuquerque, Bianca Weiss
AU - Cano, Angela
AU - Holmgren, Milena
AU - Nascimento, Marcelo Trindade
AU - Oliveira, Alexandre A.
AU - Rocha, Maira
AU - Ruschel, Ademir R.
AU - Scudeller, Veridiana Vizoni
AU - Sierra, Rodrigo
AU - Silman, Miles R.
AU - Silva, Natalino
AU - Tirado, Milton
AU - Umaña, Maria Natalia
AU - Vriesendorp, Corine
AU - Baider, Cláudia
AU - Balslev, Henrik
AU - Linares-Palomino, Reynaldo
AU - Mendoza, Casimiro
AU - Mesones, Italo
AU - Parada, Germaine Alexander
AU - Alexiades, Miguel N.
AU - Farfan-Rios, William
AU - Garcia-Cabrera, Karina
AU - Cuenca, Walter Palacios
AU - Pansini, Susamar
AU - Pauletto, Daniela
AU - Arevalo, Freddy Ramirez
AU - Sampaio, Adeilza Felipe
AU - Valderrama Sandoval, Elvis H.
AU - Gamarra, Luis Valenzuela
AU - de Jesus Veiga Carim, Marcelo
AU - da Silva Guimarães, José Renan
AU - Pipoly, John J.
AU - de Souza, Fernanda Coelho
AU - Guedes, Marcelino Carneiro
AU - de Toledo, José Julio
AU - Campelo, Wegliane
AU - Henkel, Terry W.
AU - Molino, Jean François
AU - Costa, Janaina Barbosa Pedrosa
AU - Vieira, Ima Célia Guimarães
AU - Sabatier, Daniel
AU - Duque, Alvaro
AU - Zuleta, Daniel
AU - Trindade, Thiago
AU - Tamanaha, Eduardo Kazuo
AU - de Almeida, Fernando Ozorio
AU - Feeley, Kenneth J.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2025 the Author(s).
PY - 2025/11/25
Y1 - 2025/11/25
N2 - Recent evidence suggests that the ecological footprints of pre-Columbian Indigenous peoples in Amazonia persist in modern forests. Ecological impacts resulting from European colonization c. 1550 CE and the Amazonian Rubber Boom c. 1850 to 1920 CE are largely unexplored but could be important additive influences on forest structure and tree species composition. Using environmental niche models, we show the highest probabilities of pre-Columbian and colonial occupation sites, and hence human-induced ecological influences, occurred in forests along rivers. In many areas, the predicted pre-Columbian and colonial distributions overlap spatially with the potential for superimposed ecological influences. Environmental gradients are known to structure Amazonian vegetation composition, but they are also strong predictors of past human influence, both spatially and temporally. Our comparisons of model outputs with relative abundances of Amazonian tree species suggest that pre-Columbian and colonial-period ecological legacies are associated with modern forest composition.
AB - Recent evidence suggests that the ecological footprints of pre-Columbian Indigenous peoples in Amazonia persist in modern forests. Ecological impacts resulting from European colonization c. 1550 CE and the Amazonian Rubber Boom c. 1850 to 1920 CE are largely unexplored but could be important additive influences on forest structure and tree species composition. Using environmental niche models, we show the highest probabilities of pre-Columbian and colonial occupation sites, and hence human-induced ecological influences, occurred in forests along rivers. In many areas, the predicted pre-Columbian and colonial distributions overlap spatially with the potential for superimposed ecological influences. Environmental gradients are known to structure Amazonian vegetation composition, but they are also strong predictors of past human influence, both spatially and temporally. Our comparisons of model outputs with relative abundances of Amazonian tree species suggest that pre-Columbian and colonial-period ecological legacies are associated with modern forest composition.
KW - Indigenous land use
KW - colonization
KW - ecological legacy
KW - hyperdominance
KW - tropical forest
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105022232631
U2 - 10.1073/pnas.2514040122
DO - 10.1073/pnas.2514040122
M3 - Artículo
C2 - 41248280
AN - SCOPUS:105022232631
SN - 0027-8424
VL - 122
JO - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
JF - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
IS - 47
M1 - e2514040122
ER -
SDG 15 Life on Land