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 - Leão do Amaral, Iêda
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 - Cardenas Revilla, Juan David
AU - Irume, Mariana Victória
AU - Pires Martins, Maria
AU - Fernandez Piedade, Maria Teresa
AU - Ferreira Ramos, José
AU - Pitman, Nigel C.A.
AU - Luize, Bruno Garcia
AU - Moraes de Leão Novo, Evlyn Márcia
AU - Núñez Vargas, Percy
AU - Sanna Freire Silva, Thiago
AU - Martins Venticinque, Eduardo
AU - Manzatto, Angelo Gilberto
AU - Farias Costa Reis, Neidiane
AU - Casula, Katia Regina
AU - Honorio Coronado, Euridice N.
AU - Montero, Juan Carlos
AU - Schöngart, Jochen
AU - Castaño Arboleda, Nicolás
AU - Monteagudo Mendoza, Abel
AU - Zartman, Charles Eugene
AU - Vasquez, Rodolfo
AU - Mostacedo, Bonifacio
AU - Terborgh, John
AU - Demarchi, Layon O.
AU - Assis, Rafael L.
AU - Brilhante de Medeiro, Marcelo
AU - Costa Quaresma, Adriano
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 - Maniguaje Rincón, Lorena
AU - de Sousa Farias, Emanuelle
AU - Nascimento, Henrique Eduardo Mendonça
AU - Barçante Ladvocat Cintra, Bruno
AU - Baker, Tim R.
AU - Oliveira Feitosa, Yuri
AU - Mogollón, Hugo F.
AU - Araujo-Murakami, Alejandro
AU - Brienen, Roel
AU - Lopes, Maria Aparecida
AU - Lima Magalhães, José Leonardo
AU - Lima de Queiroz, Helder
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 - Cornejo Valverde, Fernando
AU - Alonso, Alfonso
AU - Dallmeier, Francisco
AU - Ferreira, Leandro Valle
AU - Gomes, Vitor H.F.
AU - P de Aguiar, Daniel P.
AU - Carvalho, Fernanda Antunes
AU - Gribel, Rogerio
AU - Petratti Pansonato, Marcelo
AU - Aymard C, Gerardo A.
AU - Fine, Paul V.A.
AU - Licona, Juan Carlos
AU - Villa Zegarra, Boris Eduardo
AU - Vos, Vincent Antoine
AU - Arroyo, Luzmila
AU - Cerón, Carlos
AU - Silveira, Marcos
AU - Stropp, Juliana
AU - Daly, Doug
AU - Milliken, William
AU - Pardo Molina, Guido
AU - Ríos Paredes, Marcos
AU - Barlow, Jos
AU - Berenguer, Erika
AU - Dantas do Amaral, Dário
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 - Di Fiore, Anthony
AU - Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, Isau
AU - Marcelo Pena, José Luis
AU - Pennington, Toby
AU - de Oliveira Pereira, Luciana
AU - Phillips, Juan Fernando
AU - Rivas-Torres, Gonzalo
AU - Hildebrand, Patricio von
AU - Costa Noronha, Janaína
AU - Marques Barbosa, Edelcilio
AU - Rodrigues Barbosa, Flávia
AU - de Matos Bonates, Luiz Carlos
AU - de Sá Carpandeo, Rainiellen
AU - Dávila Doza, Hilda Paulette
AU - Fuentes, Alfredo
AU - Zárate Gómez, Ricardo
AU - Gonzales, Therany
AU - Gallardo Gonzales, George Pepe
AU - Malhi, Yadvinder
AU - de Andrade Miranda, Ires Paula
AU - Mozombite Pinto, Linder Felipe
AU - Prieto, Adriana
AU - Rodrigues, Domingos de Jesus
AU - Rudas, Agustín
AU - Tello, J. Sebastián
AU - Vela, César I.A.
AU - Albuquerque, Bianca Weiss
AU - Cano, Angela
AU - Holmgren, Milena
AU - Trindade Nascimento, Marcelo
AU - Oliveira, Alexandre A.
AU - Rocha, Maira
AU - Ruschel, Ademir R.
AU - Vizoni Scudeller, Veridiana
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 - Palacios Cuenca, Walter
AU - Pansini, Susamar
AU - Pauletto, Daniela
AU - Ramirez Arevalo, Freddy
AU - Sampaio, Adeilza Felipe
AU - Valderrama Sandoval, Elvis H.
AU - Valenzuela Gamarra, Luis
AU - Veiga Carim, Marcelo de Jesus
AU - da Silva Guimarães, José Renan
AU - Pipoly, John J.
AU - Coelho de Souza, Fernanda
AU - Carneiro Guedes, Marcelino
AU - de Toledo, José Julio
AU - Campelo, Wegliane
AU - Henkel, Terry W.
AU - Molino, Jean François
AU - Barbosa Pedrosa Costa, Janaina
AU - Guimarães Vieira, Ima Célia
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 - colonization
KW - ecological legacy
KW - hyperdominance
KW - Indigenous land use
KW - tropical forest
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105022232631
U2 - 10.1073/pnas.2514040122
DO - 10.1073/pnas.2514040122
M3 - Article
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