Ancient human disturbances may be skewing our understanding of Amazonian forests

Variation in stem mortality rates determines patterns of above-ground biomass in Amazonian forests: implications for dynamic global vegetation models

(2016) Michelle O. Johnson et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Biomass resilience of Neotropical secondary forests

(2016) Lourens Poorter et al.   NATURE

Post-invasion demography of prehistoric humans in South America

(2016) Amy Goldberg et al.   NATURE

Geospatial modeling approach to monument construction using Michigan from A.D. 1000–1600 as a case study

(2016) Meghan C. L. Howey et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A 6900-year history of landscape modification by humans in lowland Amazonia

(2016) M.B. Bush et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

The discovery of the Amazonian tree flora with an updated checklist of all known tree taxa

(2016) Hans ter Steege et al.   Scientific Reports

Anthropogenic influence on Amazonian forests in pre-history: An ecological perspective

(2015) Mark B. Bush et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

An estimate of the number of tropical tree species

(2015) J. W. Ferry Slik et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The domestication of Amazonia before European conquest

(2015) Charles R. Clement et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Hyperdominance in Amazonian forest carbon cycling

(2015) Sophie Fauset et al.   Nature Communications

Are We Filling the Data Void? An Assessment of the Amount and Extent of Plant Collection Records and Census Data Available for Tropical South America

(2015) Kenneth Feeley   PLoS One

Perturbations in the carbon budget of the tropics

(2014) John Grace et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Bamboo-dominated forests and pre-Columbian earthwork formations in south-western Amazonia

(2014) Crystal H. McMichael et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Amazonian landscapes and the bias in field studies of forest structure and biomass

(2014) David C. Marvin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Predicting pre-Columbian anthropogenic soils in Amazonia

(2014) C. H. McMichael et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Hyperdominance in the Amazonian Tree Flora

(2013) H. ter Steege et al.   SCIENCE

State of the scientific knowledge on properties and genesis of Anthropogenic Dark Earths in Central Amazonia (terra preta de Índio)

(2012) Bruno Glaser et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

The carbon sink in intact tropical forests

(2012) Stuart Joseph Wright   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

A Large and Persistent Carbon Sink in the World's Forests

(2011) Y. Pan et al.   SCIENCE

Secondary forests on anthropogenic soils in Brazilian Amazonia conserve agrobiodiversity

(2010) André Braga Junqueira et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

A statistical explanation of MaxEnt for ecologists

(2010) Jane Elith et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Ecological niche modeling in Maxent: the importance of model complexity and the performance of model selection criteria

(2010) Dan L. Warren et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Pre-Columbian human occupation patterns in the eastern plains of the Llanos de Moxos, Bolivian Amazonia

(2010) Umberto Lombardo et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Raised fields in the Bolivian Amazonia: a prehistoric green revolution or a flood risk mitigation strategy?

(2010) Umberto Lombardo et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Drought-Induced Reduction in Global Terrestrial Net Primary Production from 2000 Through 2009

(2010) M. Zhao et al.   SCIENCE

Responses of Humid Tropical Trees to Rising CO2

(2009) Christian Körner   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Species Distribution Models: Ecological Explanation and Prediction Across Space and Time

(2009) Jane Elith et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Does the disturbance hypothesis explain the biomass increase in basin-wide Amazon forest plot data?

(2009) M. GLOOR et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Effects of sample size on the performance of species distribution models

(2008) M. S. Wisz et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Modeling of species distributions with Maxent: new extensions and a comprehensive evaluation

(2008) Steven J. Phillips et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Clustered disturbances lead to bias in large-scale estimates based on forest sample plots

(2008) Jeremy I. Fisher et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Predicting species distributions across the Amazonian and Andean regions using remote sensing data

(2008) Wolfgang Buermann et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Fire-mediated dieback and compositional cascade in an Amazonian forest

(2008) J. Barlow et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Pre-Columbian Urbanism, Anthropogenic Landscapes, and the Future of the Amazon

(2008) M. J. Heckenberger et al.   SCIENCE