Comment on "Persistent effects of pre-Columbian plant domestication on Amazonian forest composition"

Crystal H McMichael; Kenneth J Feeley; Christopher W Dick; Dolores R Piperno; Mark B Bush

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Comment on "Persistent effects of pre-Columbian plant domestication on Amazonian forest composition"

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Comment on "Persistent effects of pre-Columbian plant domestication on Amazonian forest composition"

Crystal H McMichael, Kenneth J Feeley, Christopher W Dick, Dolores R Piperno and Mark B Bush

Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science), Vol.358(6361), p.eaan8347

2017-10-20

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aan8347

PMID: 29051349

Abstract

Trees

Domestication

Americas

Forests

Plants

Humans

Levis (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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Title: Comment on "Persistent effects of pre-Columbian plant domestication on Amazonian forest composition"
Creators: Crystal H McMichael - Department of Ecosystem and Landscape Dynamics, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands. c.n.h.mcmichael@uva.nl
Kenneth J Feeley - Department of Biology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA
Christopher W Dick - Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama
Dolores R Piperno - Department of Anthropology, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, USA
Mark B Bush - Department of Biological Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL, USA
Publication Details: Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science), Vol.358(6361), p.eaan8347
Academic Unit: College of A&S; A&S - Biology
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article
PMID: 29051349
Record Identifier: 991031597623502976