The diversification of eastern South American open vegetation biomes: historical biogeography and perspectives

FP Werneck - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2011 - Elsevier
Abstract The eastern-central South American open vegetation biomes occur across an
extensive range of environmental conditions and are organized diagonally including three …

Do dung fungal spores make a good proxy for past distribution of large herbivores?

AG Baker, SA Bhagwat, KJ Willis - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2013 - Elsevier
The importance of herbivory as a long-term driver of ecosystem change is a topic that has
been hotly debated over the past few years. An understanding of the interaction between …

Revisiting the historical distribution of Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests: new insights based on palaeodistribution modelling and palynological evidencegeb

FP Werneck, GC Costa, GR Colli… - Global Ecology and …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Aim To investigate the potential distribution of Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests (SDTFs)
during the Quaternary climatic fluctuations; to reassess the formerly proposed 'Pleistocenic …

The Amazon at sea: Onset and stages of the Amazon River from a marine record, with special reference to Neogene plant turnover in the drainage basin

C Hoorn, GR Bogotá-A, M Romero-Baez… - Global and Planetary …, 2017 - Elsevier
The Amazon submarine fan is a large sediment apron situated offshore Pará (Brazil) and
represents the most distal extent of the Amazon River. The age of onset of this …

Environmental impact of geometric earthwork construction in pre-Columbian Amazonia

JF Carson, BS Whitney, FE Mayle… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
There is considerable controversy over whether pre-Columbian (pre-AD 1492) Amazonia
was largely “pristine” and sparsely populated by slash-and-burn agriculturists, or instead a …

A 45 kyr palaeoclimate record from the lowland interior of tropical South America

BS Whitney, FE Mayle, SW Punyasena… - Palaeogeography …, 2011 - Elsevier
We present a well-dated, high-resolution,~ 45kyr lake sediment record reflecting regional
temperature and precipitation change in the continental interior of the Southern Hemisphere …

Long-term man–environment interactions in the Bolivian Amazon: 8000 years of vegetation dynamics

SO Brugger, E Gobet, JFN van Leeuwen… - Quaternary Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
Only few studies documenting the vegetation history of the Llanos de Moxos, one of the
largest seasonally flooded wetland areas in South America, are available and little is known …

Differentiation of neotropical ecosystems by modern soil phytolith assemblages and its implications for palaeoenvironmental and archaeological reconstructions

R Dickau, BS Whitney, J Iriarte, FE Mayle… - Review of Palaeobotany …, 2013 - Elsevier
The interpretation of Neotropical fossil phytolith assemblages for palaeoenvironmental and
archaeological reconstructions relies on the development of appropriate modern analogues …

Integrative inventory of Bolivia's lowland anurans reveals hidden diversity

M Jansen, R Bloch, A Schulze… - Zoologica scripta, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Jansen, M., Bloch, R., Schulze, A. & Pfenninger, M.(2011). Integrative inventory of Bolivia's
lowland anurans reveals hidden diversity.—Zoologica Scripta, 40, 567–583. We conducted …

The effect of global warming on the establishment of mangroves in coastal Louisiana during the Holocene

E Rodrigues, MCL Cohen, K Liu, LCR Pessenda… - Geomorphology, 2021 - Elsevier
Winter temperature and sea-level position are critical factors affecting the global distribution
of mangroves and saltmarshes. The replacement of saltmarshes by mangroves is expected …