During the last two decades, new archaeological projects which systematically integrate a
variety of plant recovery techniques, along with palaeoecology, palaeoclimate, soil science …

A sedimentary record from the Peruvian Amazon provided evidence of climate and
vegetation change for the last 6900 years. Piston cores collected from the center of Lake …

An improved understanding of present-day climate variability and change relies on high-
quality data sets from the past 2 millennia. Global efforts to model regional climate modes …

People have modified landscapes throughout the Holocene (the last c. 11,700 years) by
modifying soils, burning forests, cultivating and domesticating plants, and directly and …

Early botanical explorers invoked biogeographic history to explain the remarkable tree
diversity of Neotropical forests. In this context, we review the history of Neotropical tree …

Anthropogenic climate change driven by increased carbon emissions is leading to more
severe fire seasons and increasing the frequency of mega-fires in the Amazon. This has the …

Tropical savannas are known for the fire‐prone ecosystems, yet, riparian evergreen forests
are another important landscape feature. These forests usually remain safe from wildfires in …

Modifications of Amazonian forests by pre‐Columbian peoples are thought to have left
ecological legacies that have persisted to the modern day. Most Amazonian …

Aims Here, we characterized the vegetative and reproductive phenology of Mauritia flexuosa
in an extra-Amazonian environment, in four veredas (humid environment) in the Brazilian …

Plants have been used in Amazonian forests for millennia and some of these plants are
disproportionally abundant (hyperdominant). At local scales, people generally use the most …