Moving towards an anti-colonial definition for regenerative agriculture

B Sands, MR Machado, A White, E Zent… - Agriculture and Human …, 2023 - Springer
Regenerative agriculture refers to a suite of principles, practices, or outcomes which seek to
improve soil health, biodiversity, climate, ecosystem function, and socioeconomic outcomes …

Human contribution to Amazonian plant diversity: Legacy of pre-Columbian land use in modern plant communities

E Montoya, U Lombardo, C Levis, GA Aymard… - … : patterns and processes, 2020 - Springer
Amazonia is the world's largest tropical forest and is globally important in terms of its
ecosystem services and extraordinarily high levels of biodiversity. The origin of this …

A 5,000-year vegetation and fire history for tierra firme forests in the Medio Putumayo-Algodón watersheds, northeastern Peru

DR Piperno, CH McMichael… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
This paper addresses an important debate in Amazonian studies; namely, the scale,
intensity, and nature of human modification of the forests in prehistory. Phytolith and …

Phytoliths as a tool for archaeobotanical, palaeobotanical and palaeoecological studies in Amazonian palms

G Morcote-Ríos, R Bernal, L Raz - Botanical journal of the …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Phytoliths are silica bodies found in vascular plants, often diagnostic at the family level in
angiosperms. They are especially abundant in palms (Arecaceae), occurring in all organs …

Long‐term fire and vegetation change in northwestern Amazonia

BM Heijink, QA Mattijs, R Valencia, AL Philip… - Biotropica, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Amazonian forest plots are used to quantify biodiversity and carbon sequestration, and
provide the foundation for much of what is known about tropical ecology. Many plots are …

Subsistence practices among earthwork builders: Phytolith evidence from archaeological sites in the southwest Amazonian interfluves

J Watling, S Saunaluoma, M Pärssinen… - Journal of Archaeological …, 2015 - Elsevier
The history of human–environment interactions and the role of agriculture among pre-
Columbian populations of Amazonia has been a long-standing topic of debate, usually …

Stable isotope evidence for pre-colonial maize agriculture and animal management in the Bolivian Amazon

T Hermengildo, H Prümers… - Nature Human …, 2024 - nature.com
Over the past decade, multidisciplinary research has seen the Amazon Basin go from a
context perceived as unfavourable for food production and large-scale human societies to …

The importance of Latin American scholarship-and-practice for the relational turn in sustainability science: a reply to West et al.(2020)

CA Gallegos-Riofrio, E Zent, RK Gould - Ecosystems and People, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The paper,'A relational turn for sustainability science? Relational thinking, leverage points
and transformations' presents a compelling summary of the incipient relational turn in …

Holocene increases in palm abundances in north‐western Amazonia

BM Heijink, CNH McMichael, DR Piperno… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Aim In Amazonia, 227 of c. 16,000 tree species account for half the individual trees
(termed 'hyperdominant'species), and a disproportionate number of these species are …

[HTML][HTML] Conservación de la diversidad de yuca en los sistemas tradicionales de cultivo de la Amazonía

D Pérez, R Mora, C López-Carrascal - Acta Biológica Colombiana, 2019 - scielo.org.co
La yuca es determinante para la seguridad alimentaria de cientos de millones de personas
alrededor del mundo. A pesar de que el principal medio de propagación del cultivo es a …