[HTML][HTML] Earth system impacts of the European arrival and Great Dying in the Americas after 1492

A Koch, C Brierley, MM Maslin, SL Lewis - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
Human impacts prior to the Industrial Revolution are not well constrained. We investigate
whether the decline in global atmospheric CO 2 concentration by 7–10 ppm in the late …

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

MB Bush, A Correa-Metrio, CH McMichael… - Quaternary Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
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 …

Contributions of Quaternary botany to modern ecology and biogeography

HJB Birks - Plant Ecology & Diversity, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Quaternary (last 2.6 million years) botany involves studying plant megafossils
(eg tree stumps), macrofossils (eg seeds, leaves), and microfossils (eg pollen, spores) …

Sensitivity of tropical montane birds to anthropogenic disturbance and management strategies for their conservation in agricultural landscapes

IJ Ausprey, FL Newell, SK Robinson - Conservation Biology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Tropical montane bird communities are hypothesized to be highly sensitive to anthropogenic
disturbance because species are adapted to a narrow range of environmental conditions …

Anthropogenic influence on Amazonian forests in pre‐history: an ecological perspective

MB Bush, CH McMichael, DR Piperno… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
An important debate has been re‐invigorated by new data concerning the size and
environmental impacts of human populations in the Amazon Basin during pre‐history. Here …

A palaeoecological perspective on the transformation of the tropical Andes by early human activity

MB Bush, A Rozas-Davila… - … of the Royal …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Palaeoecological records suggest that humans have been in the Andes since at least 14
000 years ago. Early human impacts on Andean ecosystems included an increase in fire …

The quinoa boom in Peru: Will land competition threaten sustainability in one of the cradles of agriculture?

NS Bedoya-Perales, G Pumi, E Talamini, AD Padula - Land Use Policy, 2018 - Elsevier
For a long time, the Andean grain crop quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) was just
another example of the thousands of little-known and underutilized plants. Today, however …

2,100 years of human adaptation to climate change in the High Andes

CM Åkesson, F Matthews-Bird, M Bitting… - Nature ecology & …, 2020 - nature.com
Humid montane forests are challenging environments for human habitation. We used high-
resolution fossil pollen, charcoal, diatom and sediment chemistry data from the iconic …

Late-Holocene maize cultivation, fire, and forest change at Lake Ayauchi, Amazonian Ecuador

CM Åkesson, CNH McMichael, S León-Yánez… - The …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
A high-resolution paleoecological record provides a 2690 year-long fossil pollen and
charcoal history from Lake Ayauchi, Ecuador, in lowland Amazonia. The record begins with …

Wet and dry events influenced colonization of a mid-elevation Andean forest

RA Sales, CNH McMichael, LC Peterson… - Quaternary Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
Few paleoecological records are available to document the history of mid-elevation
montane forests in the tropical Andes between 1500 and 2500 m above sea level …