Journal
SCIENCE
Volume 355, Issue 6328, Pages 925-+Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.aal0157
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- Asociacion para la Conservacion de la Cuenca Amazonica/Amazon Conservation Association (ACCA/ACA)
- Alberta Mennega Stichting
- ALCOA Suriname
- Banco de la Republica
- Centre for Agricultural Research in Suriname (CELOS Suriname)
- Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior (CAPES) (Plano Nacional de Pos-Graduacao)
- CAPES Ciencia sem Fronteiras [PVE 177/2012]
- Conselho Nacional de Desenvovimento Cientifico e Tecnoloico of Brazil (CNPq) [573721/2008-4, CNPq 558318/2009-6, 457544/2012-0, 304088/2011-0, 306368/2013-7, 473308/2009-6, 52.0103/2009-2, 201573/2014-8, 207400/2014-8, 307807-2009-6, 479599/2008-4, 458210/2014-5, 303851/2015-5]
- Colciencias
- Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado do Amazonas (FAPEAM)
- Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo [09/53369-6, 465/2010]
- PRONEX-FAPEAM [1600/2006]
- Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
- Guyana Forestry Commission
- Investissement d'Avenir grant of the French L'AgenceNationale de la Recherche (ANR) [ANR-10-LABX-0025]
- Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas of Venezuela
- Lincoln Park Zoo
- Margaret Mee Amazon Trust
- Margot Marsh Foundation
- Marie Sklodowska-Curie/European Union [706011]
- Ministerio da Ciencia, Tecnologia e Inovacao (MCTI)-Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi [407232/2013-3-PVE-MEC/MCTI/CAPES/CNPq]
- Miquel fonds
- Netherlands Foundation for the Advancement of Tropical Research WOTRO [WB85-335, W84-581]
- Nuffic
- Primate Conservation
- Stichting het van Eeden-fonds
- Shell Prospecting and Development of Peru
- Tropenbos International
- UniAndes
- Variety Woods Guyana
- U.S. National Science Foundation [DEB-0918591, DEB-1258112, DEB-1556338]
- Wenner-Gren Foundation
- Venezuela National Council for Scientific Research and Technology (CONICIT)
- Wageningen University (Interdisciplinary Research and Education Fund Terra Preta program and FOREFRONT program)
- Aarhus University
- Wake Forest University
- WWF-Guianas
- Natural Environment Research Council (UK)
- Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation European Union
- European Research Council
- Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award
- Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo (FAPESP) [09/53369-6] Funding Source: FAPESP
- Marie Curie Actions (MSCA) [706011] Funding Source: Marie Curie Actions (MSCA)
- Division Of Environmental Biology
- Direct For Biological Sciences [1556338] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Natural Environment Research Council [NE/D01025X/1, NE/B504630/1, NE/N011570/1, NE/J023418/1, NE/B503384/1, NE/M022021/1, NE/N012542/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- The British Council [275556724] Funding Source: researchfish
- NERC [NE/N011570/1, NE/M022021/1, NE/D01025X/1, NE/J023418/1, NE/N012542/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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The extent to which pre-Columbian societies altered Amazonian landscapes is hotly debated. We performed a basin-wide analysis of pre-Columbian impacts on Amazonian forests by overlaying known archaeological sites in Amazonia with the distributions and abundances of 85 woody species domesticated by pre-Columbian peoples. Domesticated species are five times more likely than nondomesticated species to be hyperdominant. Across the basin, the relative abundance and richness of domesticated species increase in forests on and around archaeological sites. In southwestern and eastern Amazonia, distance to archaeological sites strongly influences the relative abundance and richness of domesticated species. Our analyses indicate that modern tree communities in Amazonia are structured to an important extent by a long history of plant domestication by Amazonian peoples.
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