Holocene fires, forest stability and human occupation in south-western Amazonia

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 521-533

  Urrego, Dunia H ^a   Bush, Mark B ^a   Silman, Miles R ^b   Niccum, Brittany A ^a   De La Rosa, Paulina ^a   Mcmichael, Crystal H ^a,d   Hagen, Stephen ^c   Palace, Michael ^d  

^a Florida Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Applied Geosolutions LLC   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

Amazonia; Charcoal; Ecotone; Fire history; Forest resilience; Fossil pollen; Human disturbance; Manufactured landscape

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; CHARCOAL; DROUGHT STRESS; ECOTONE; EVERGREEN FOREST; FIRE HISTORY; FOREST FIRE; FOSSIL RECORD; HOLOCENE; NDVI; OCCUPATION; PALYNOLOGY; SAVANNA;

AMAZONIA;

EID: 84873712945     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jbi.12016     Document Type: Article

References (63)

1. Abbott, M.B., Wolfe, B.B., Wolfe, E.P., Seltzer, G.O., Aravena, R., Mark, B.G., Polissar, P.G., Rodbell, D.T., Rowe, H.D. & Vuille, M. (2003) Holocene paleohydrology and glacial history of the central Andes using multiproxy lake sediment studies. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 194, 123-138.
2. Absy, M.L., Cleef, A., Fournier, M., Martin, L., Servant, M., Sifeddine, A., Ferreira da Silva, M., Soubiès, F., Suguio, K.T. & van der Hammen, T. (1991) Mise en évidence de quatre phases d'ouverture de la forêt dense dans le sud-est de L'Amazonie au cours des 60, 000 dernières années. Première comparaison avec d'autres régions tropicales. Comptes Rendus Academie des Sciences Paris, Series II, 312, 673-678.
3. Asner, G.P., Knapp, D.E., Broadbent, E.N., Oliveira, P.J.C., Keller, M. & Silva, J.N. (2005) Selective logging in the Brazilian Amazon. Science, 310, 480-482.
4. Baker, P.A., Seltzer, G.O., Fritz, S.C., Dunbar, R.B., Grove, M.J., Tapia, P.M., Cross, S.L., Rowe, H.D. & Broda, J.P. (2001) The history of South American tropical precipitation for the past 25, 000 years. Science, 291, 640-643.
5. Balée, W. (1988) Indigenous adaptation to Amazonian palm forests. Principes, 32, 47-54.
6. Burbridge, R.E., Mayle, F.E. & Killeen, T.J. (2004) Fifty-thousand-year vegetation and climate history of Noel Kempff Mercado National Park, Bolivian Amazon. Quaternary Research, 61, 215-230.
7. Bush, M.B. & Silman, M.R. (2004) Observations on Late Pleistocene cooling and precipitation in the lowland Neotropics. Journal of Quaternary Science, 19, 677-684.
8. Bush, M.B. & Weng, C. (2007) Introducing a new (freeware) tool for palynology. Journal of Biogeography, 34, 377-380.
9. Bush, M.B., Hansen, B.C.S., Rodbell, D.T., Seltzer, G.O., Young, K.R., León, B., Abbott, M.B., Silman, M.R. & Gosling, W.D. (2005) A 17 000-year history of Andean climate and vegetation change from Laguna de Chochos, Peru. Journal of Quaternary Science, 20, 703-714.
10. Bush, M.B., Silman, M.R. & Listopad, C.M.C.S. (2007a) A regional study of Holocene climate change and human occupation in Peruvian Amazonia. Journal of Biogeography, 34, 1342-1356.
11. Bush, M.B., Silman, M.R., de Toledo, M.B., Listopad, C., Gosling, W.D., Williams, C., de Oliveira, P.E. & Krisel, C. (2007b) Holocene fire and occupation in Amazonia: records from two lake districts. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 362, 209-218.
12. Chambers, J.Q., Asner, G.P., Morton, D.C., Anderson, L.O., Saatchi, S.S., Espírito-Santo, F.D.B., Palace, M. & Souza, C., Jr (2007) Regional ecosystem structure and function: ecological insights from remote sensing of tropical forests. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 22, 414-423.
13. Clark, J.S. & Patterson, W.A, III (1997) Background and local charcoal in sediments: scales of fire evidence in the paleorecord. Sediment records of biomass burning and global change (ed. by J.S. Clark, H. Cachier, J.G. Goldammer and B. Stocks), pp. 23-48. NATO ASI Series. Series 1: Global Environmental Change, Vol. 51. Springer, Berlin.
14. Colinvaux, P.A., De Oliveira, P.E. & Moreno, J.E. (1999) Amazon pollen manual and atlas. Harwood Academic Press, New York.
15. Correa-Metrio, A., Urrego, D.H., Cabrera, K. & Bush, M.B. (2010) paleoMAS: paleoecological analysis. R package version 1.1. Available at: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/paleoMAS/index.html (accessed in March 2010).
16. Dean, W.E., Jr (1974) Determination of carbonate and organic matter in calcareous sediments and sedimentary rocks by loss on ignition: comparison with other methods. Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, 44, 242-248.
17. Erickson, C.L. (2000) An artificial landscape-scale fishery in the Bolivian Amazon. Nature, 408, 190-193.
18. Erickson, C.L. (2010) The transformation of environment into landscape: the historical ecology of monumental earthwork construction in the Bolivian Amazon. Diversity, 2, 618-652.
19. Faegri, K. & Iversen, J. (1989) Textbook of pollen analysis, 4th edn. Wiley, Chichester, UK.
20. 14C dates on pristine corals. Quaternary Science Reviews, 24, 1781-1796.
21. Fernandes, K., Baethgen, W., Bernardes, S., DeFries, R., DeWitt, D.G., Goddard, L., Lavado, W., Lee, D.E., Padoch, C., Pinedo-Vasquez, M. & Uriarte, M. (2011) North Tropical Atlantic influence on western Amazon fire season variability. Geophysical Research Letters, 38, L12701.
22. de Freitas, H.A., Pessenda, L.C.R., Aravena, R., Gouveia, S.E.M., de Souza Ribeiro, A. & Boulet, R. (2001) Late Quaternary vegetation dynamics in the southern Amazon Basin inferred from carbon isotopes in soil organic matter. Quaternary Research, 55, 39-46.
23. Frolking, S., Palace, M.W., Clark, D.B., Chambers, J.Q., Shugart, H.H. & Hurtt, G.C. (2009) Forest disturbance and recovery: a general review in the context of space-borne remote sensing of impacts on aboveground biomass and canopy structure. Journal of Geophysical Research, 114, G00E02.
24. Gouveia, S.E.M., Pessenda, L.C.R., Aravena, R., Boulet, R., Scheel-Ybert, R., Bendassoli, J.A., Ribeiro, A.S. & Freitas, H.A. (2002) Carbon isotopes in charcoal and soils in studies of paleovegetation and climate changes during the late Pleistocene and the Holocene in the southeast and centerwest regions of Brazil. Global and Planetary Change, 33, 95-106.
25. Haffer, J. & Prance, G.T. (2001) Climatic forcing of evolution in Amazonia during the Cenozoic: on the refuge theory of biotic differentiation. Amazoniana, 16, 579-608.
26. Hanselman, J.A., Gosling, W.D., Paduano, G.M. & Bush, M.B. (2005) Contrasting pollen histories of MIS 5e and the Holocene from Lake Titicaca (Bolivia/Peru). Journal of Quaternary Science, 20, 663-670.
27. Heckenberger, M.J., Kuikuro, A., Kuikuro, U.T., Russell, J.C., Schmidt, M., Fausto, C. & Franchetto, B. (2003) Amazonia 1492: pristine forest or cultural parkland? Science, 301, 1710-1714.
28. Herrera, L.F. & Urrego, L.E. (1996) Atlas de polen de plantas útiles y cultivadas de la Amazonia colombiana. Tropenbos - Fundacion Erigaie, Bogotá, Colombia.
29. Hijmans, R.J., Cameron, S.E., Parra, J.L., Jones, P.G. & Jarvis, A. (2005) Very high resolution interpolated climate surfaces for global land areas. International Journal of Climatology, 25, 1965-1978.
30. Hillyer, R., Valencia, B.G., Bush, M.B., Silman, M.R. & Steinitz-Kannan, M. (2009) A 24, 000-year paleolimnological history from the Peruvian Andes. Quaternary Research, 71, 71-82.
31. Hooghiemstra, H. (1984) Vegetational and climatic history of the high plain of Bogota, Colombia: a continuous record of the last 3.5 million years. Gantner Verlag, Vaduz.
32. IPCC (2002) Climate change and biodiversity (ed. by H. Gitay, A. Suárez, R.T. Watson and D.J. Dokken), pp. 1-76. IPCC Technical Paper V. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Geneva, Switzerland.
33. Juggins, S. (2003) C2 data analysis. Version 1.4 Beta. University of Newcastle, Newcastle, UK.
34. Killeen, T.J., Douglas, M., Consiglio, T., Jørgensen, P.M. & Mejia, J. (2007) Dry spots and wet spots in the Andean hotspot. Journal of Biogeography, 34, 1357-1373.
35. Laskar, J., Robutel, P., Joutel, F., Gastineau, M., Correia, A.C.M. & Levrard, B. (2004) A long-term numerical solution for the insolation quantities of the Earth. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 428, 261-285.
36. Mayle, F.E. & Power, M.J. (2008) Impact of a drier early-mid-Holocene climate upon Amazonian forests. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 363, 1829-1838.
37. Mayle, F.E., Burbridge, R. & Killeen, T.J. (2000) Millennial-scale dynamics of southern Amazonian rain forests. Science, 290, 2291-2294.
38. McCune, B. & Grace, J.B. (2002) Analysis of ecological communities. MjM, Gleneden Beach, OR.
39. McMichael, C.H., Bush, M.B., Piperno, D.R., Silman, M.R., Zimmermann, A.R. & Anderson, C. (2012a) Spatial and temporal scales of pre-Columbian disturbance associated with western Amazonian lakes. The Holocene, 22, 131-141.
40. McMichael, C.H., Correa-Metrio, A. & Bush, M.B. (2012b) Pre-Columbian fire regimes in lowland tropical rainforests of southeastern Peru. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 342-343, 73-83.
41. Mourguiart, P. & Ledru, M.-P. (2003) Last Glacial Maximum in an Andean cloud forest environment (Eastern Cordillera, Bolivia). Geology, 31, 195-198.
42. Oksanen, J., Blanchet, F.G., Kindt, R., Legendre, P., O'Hara, R.B., Simpson, G.L., Solymos, P., Stevens, M.H.H. & Wagner, H. (2010) Community ecology package: vegan. CRAN. 1.17-4 R package version 2.11.1. Available at: http://vegan.r-forge.r-project.org/ (accessed August 2011).
43. Palace, M., Keller, M., Asner, G.P., Silva, J.N.M. & Passos, C. (2007) Necromass in undisturbed and logged forests in the Brazilian Amazon. Forest Ecology and Management, 238, 309-318.
44. Pessenda, L.C.R., Gomes, B.M., Aravena, R., Ribeiro, A.S., Boulet, R. & Gouveia, S.E.M. (1998) The carbon isotope record in soils along a forest-cerrado ecosystem transect: implications for vegetation changes in the Rondonia state, southwestern Brazilian Amazon region. The Holocene, 8, 599-603.
45. Phillips, O.L., Aragão, L.E.O.C., Lewis, S.L. et al. (2009) Drought sensitivity of the Amazon rainforest. Science, 323, 1344-1347.
46. Quisbert, J. & Macía, M.J. (2005) Estudio comparativo de la composition floristica y estructura del bosque de tierra firme en dos sitios de tierras bajas de Madidi. Ecología en Bolivia, 40, 339-364.
47. R Development Core Team (2010) R: a language and environment for statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria.
48. Rasband, W.S. & Bright, D.S. (1995) NIH Image: a public domain image processing program for the Macintosh. Available at: http://rsb.info.nih.gov/nih-image/ (accessed January 2010).
49. Roubik, D.W. & Moreno, P.J.E. (1991) Pollen and spores of Barro Colorado Island. Monographs in Systematic Botany, No. 36. Missouri Botanical Garden, St Louis, MO.
50. Schaan, D., Parssinen, M., Saunaluoma, S., Ranzi, A., Bueno, M. & Barbosa, A. (2012) New radiometric dates for precolumbian (2000-700 b.p.) earthworks in western Amazonia. Brazil. Journal of Field Archaeology, 37, 132-142.
51. Seltzer, G.O., Rodbell, D.T., Baker, P.A., Fritz, S.C., Tapia, P.M., Rowe, H.D. & Dunbar, R.B. (2002) Early warming of tropical South America at the last glacial-interglacial transition. Science, 296, 1685-1686.
52. Silman, M.R. (2007) Plant species diversity in Amazonian forests. Tropical rainforest responses to climatic change (ed. by M.B. Bush and J.R. Flenley), pp. 269-288. Springer, Chichester, UK.
53. Silman, M.R., Araujo-Murakami, A., Urrego, D.H., Bush, M.B. & Pariamo, H. (2005) Estructura de las comunidades de árboles en el límite sur de la Amazonía occidental: Manu and Madidi. Ecología en Bolivia, 40, 441-451.
54. Smith, D.N. & Killeen, T.J. (1998) A comparison of the structure and composition of montane and lowland tropical forest in the Serranía Pilón Lajas, Beni, Bolivia. Forest biodiversity in North, Central and South America, and the Caribbean (ed. by F. Dallmeier and J.A. Comiskey), pp. 681-700. Man and the Biosphere Series, Vol. 21. UNESCO and Parthenon Publishing, Carnforth, Lancashire, UK.
55. Stockmarr, J. (1972) Tablets with spores used in absolute pollen analysis. Pollen et Spore, XIII, 615-621.
56. Taylor, Z.P., Horn, S.P., Mora, C.I., Orvis, K.H. & Cooper, L.W. (2010) A multi-proxy palaeoecological record of late-Holocene forest expansion in lowland Bolivia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 293, 98-107.
57. Tucker, C.J. (1979) Red and photographic infrared linear combinations for monitoring vegetation. Remote Sensing of Environment, 8, 127-150.
58. Urrego, D.H., Bush, M.B., Silman, M.R., Correa-Metrio, A., Ledru, M.-P., Mayle, F.E., Paduano, G. & Valencia, B.G. (2009) Millennial-scale ecological changes in tropical South America since the Last Glacial Maximum. Past climate variability from the Last Glacial Maximum to the Holocene in South America and surrounding regions (ed. by F. Vimeux, F. Sylvestre and M. Khodri), pp. 283-300. Springer, Paris.
59. Urrego, D.H., Bush, M.B. & Silman, M.R. (2010) A long history of cloud and forest migration from Lake Consuelo, Peru. Quaternary Research, 73, 364-373.
60. Urrego, D.H., Niccum, B.A., La Drew, C.F., Silman, M.R. & Bush, M.B. (2011) Fire and drought as drivers of past treeline changes in the Peruvian Andes. Journal of Quaternary Science, 26, 28-36.
61. Valencia, B.G., Urrego, D.H., Silman, M.R. & Bush, M.B. (2010) From ice age to modern: a record of landscape change in an Andean cloud forest. Journal of Biogeography, 37, 1637-1647.
62. Whitney, B.S., Mayle, F.E., Punyasena, S.W., Fitzpatrick, K.A., Burn, M.J., Guillen, R., Chavez, E., Mann, D., Pennington, R.T. & Metcalfe, S.E. (2011) A 45 kyr palaeoclimate record from the lowland interior of tropical South America. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 307, 177-192.
63. Williams, J.J., Gosling, W.D., Brooks, S.J., Coe, A.L. & Xu, S. (2011) Vegetation, climate and fire in the eastern Andes (Bolivia) during the last 18, 000 years. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 312, 115-126.