Global importance of Indigenous Peoples, their lands, and knowledge systems for saving the world's primates from extinction

A Estrada, PA Garber, S Gouveia… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Primates, represented by 521 species, are distributed across 91 countries primarily in the
Neotropic, Afrotropic, and Indo-Malayan realms. Primates inhabit a wide range of habitats …

The origins of Amazonian landscapes: Plant cultivation, domestication and the spread of food production in tropical South America

J Iriarte, S Elliott, SY Maezumi, D Alves… - Quaternary Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
During the last two decades, new archaeological projects which systematically integrate a
variety of plant recovery techniques, along with palaeoecology, palaeoclimate, soil science …

Scientists' warning to humanity on threats to indigenous and local knowledge systems

Á Fernández-Llamazares, D Lepofsky… - Journal of …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
The knowledge systems and practices of Indigenous Peoples and local communities play
critical roles in safeguarding the biological and cultural diversity of our planet. Globalization …

[PDF][PDF] Historical indigenous land-use explains plant functional trait diversity.

CG Armstrong, JED Miller, AC McAlvay, PM Ritchie… - Ecology & …, 2021 - core.ac.uk
Human land-use legacies have long-term effects on plant community composition and
ecosystem function. While ancient and historical land use is known to affect biodiversity …

Contributions of human cultures to biodiversity and ecosystem conservation

C Levis, BM Flores, JV Campos-Silva… - Nature Ecology & …, 2024 - nature.com
The expansion of globalized industrial societies is causing global warming, ecosystem
degradation, and species and language extinctions worldwide. Mainstream conservation …

Functional diversity improves tropical forest resilience: Insights from a long‐term virtual experiment

S Schmitt, I Maréchaux, J Chave, FJ Fischer… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Human activities modify the disturbance regimes of tropical forests. Since tropical forests
host high biological diversity, understanding the role of biodiversity in ecosystem recovery …

A Late Pleistocene coastal ecosystem in French Guiana was hyperdiverse relative to today

PO Antoine, LN Wieringa, S Adnet… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
Warmer temperatures and higher sea level than today characterized the Last Interglacial
interval [Pleistocene, 128 to 116 thousand years ago (ka)]. This period is a remarkable deep …

Historical ecology of forest garden management in L a xyuubm Ts' msyen and beyond

CG Armstrong, N Lyons, AC McAlvay… - Ecosystems and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Cultural land-use is an important driver of ecosystem change, influencing the composition of
species across landscapes and through time. Recent research in northwestern North …

[HTML][HTML] A floresta é o domus: a importância das evidências arqueobotânicas e arqueológicas das ocupações humanas amazônicas na transição Pleistoceno …

MP Shock, CP Moraes - Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi …, 2019 - SciELO Brasil
Este artigo discute o papel que as antigas ocupações exerceram na constituição do que se
considera como floresta amazônica, tendo como base dados arqueológicos e …

Ancient anthropogenic clam gardens of the northwest coast expand clam habitat

D Lepofsky, G Toniello, J Earnshaw, C Roberts… - Ecosystems, 2021 - Springer
Clam gardens are ancient mariculture features developed by Indigenous Peoples of the
Northwest Coast of North America that create shallow sloping intertidal shelves where clam …