Predicting pre-Columbian anthropogenic soils in Amazonia

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 281, Issue 1777, 2014, Pages

  McMichael, C H ^a,b   Palace, M W ^a   Bush, M B ^b   Braswell, B ^c   Hagen, S ^c   Neves, E G ^d   Silman, M R ^e   Tamanaha, E K ^d   Czarnecki, C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b Florida Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c Applied GeoSolutions   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^e WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amazonia; Anthrosols; Maxent algorithms; Modified soils; Pre Columbian impacts; Terra preta

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; SOIL PROPERTY; SOIL TYPE; TERRA ROSSA;

AMAZONIA;

EID: 84891865203     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.2475     Document Type: Article

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