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| The research program of historical ecology W Balée Annu. Rev. Anthropol. 35 (1), 75-98, 2006 | 845 | 2006 |
| Time and complexity in historical ecology: studies in the neotropical lowlands WL Balée, CL Erickson Columbia University Press, 2006 | 749 | 2006 |
| Quantitative ethnobotany and the case for conservation in Ammonia GT Prance, W Baleé, BM Boom, RL Carneiro Conservation biology 1 (4), 296-310, 1987 | 670 | 1987 |
| Advances in historical ecology WL Balée Columbia University Press, 1998 | 620 | 1998 |
| Resource management in Amazonia: indigenous and folk strategies. DA Posey, W Balée | 526 | 1989 |
| Cultural forests of the Amazon: a historical ecology of people and their landscapes W Balée University of Alabama Press, 2013 | 414 | 2013 |
| The domesticated landscapes of the Bolivian Amazon CL Erickson Time and complexity in historical ecology: studies in the Neotropical …, 2006 | 369 | 2006 |
| Historical ecology: premises and postulates W Balée Advances in historical ecology, 13-29, 1998 | 364 | 1998 |
| Managed forest succession in Amazonia: the Ka'apor case W Balée, A Gély Advances in economic botany, 129-158, 1989 | 235 | 1989 |
| Indigenous transformation of Amazonian forests: an example from Maranhão, Brazil W Balée L'homme, 231-254, 1993 | 222 | 1993 |
| Political economy and pre-Columbian landscape transformations in Central Amazonia EG Neves, JB Petersen Time and complexity in historical ecology: studies in the neotropical …, 2006 | 196 | 2006 |
| Indigenous adaptation to Amazonian palm forests. W Balée | 193 | 1988 |
| Scientists' warning to humanity on threats to indigenous and local knowledge systems Á Fernández-Llamazares, D Lepofsky, K Lertzman, CG Armstrong, ... Journal of Ethnobiology 41 (2), 144-169, 2021 | 192 | 2021 |
| People of the fallow: a historical ecology of foraging in lowland South America W Balée Columbia University Press, 1992 | 177 | 1992 |
| Evidence for the successional status of liana forest (Xingu river basin, Amazonian Brazil) W Balée, DG Campbell Biotropica, 36-47, 1990 | 176 | 1990 |
| Cultura na vegetação da Amazônia brasileira W Balée Biologia e Ecologia Humana na Amazônia, 95-109, 1989 | 157 | 1989 |
| Sobre a indigeneidade das paisagens W Balée Revista de arqueologia 21 (2), 9-23, 2008 | 152 | 2008 |
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