Human use of land has been transforming Earth's ecology for millennia. From hunting and
foraging to burning the land to farming to industrial agriculture, increasingly intensive human …

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 …

Tropical forests house over half of Earth's biodiversity and are an important influence on the
climate system. These forests are experiencing escalating human influence, altering their …

During the twentieth century, Amazonia was widely regarded as relatively pristine nature,
little impacted by human history. This view remains popular despite mounting evidence of …

The legacy of pre-Columbian land use in the Amazonian rainforest is one of the most
controversial topics in the social,,,,,,,,–and natural sciences,. Until now, the debate has been …

The Anthropocene is characterized as an epoch when human influence has begun to
fundamentally alter many aspects of the Earth system and many of the planet's biomes …

Winner of the Society for Economic Botany's Mary W. Klinger Book Award. Cultural Forests
of the Amazon is a comprehensive and diverse account of how indigenous people …

The time taken for forested tropical ecosystems to re-establish post-disturbance is of
widespread interest. Yet to date there has been no comparative study across tropical biomes …

Sustainable intensification of existing global croplands and rangelands is a pressing
challenge to reconcile competing demands on land systems for food production and …

The rainforests are the great green heart of Africa, and present a unique combination of
ecological, climatic and human interactions. In this synthesis paper, we review the past and …