Phytolith assemblages along a gradient of ancient human disturbance in Western Amazonia

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue DEC, 2015, Pages

  McMichael, Crystal H ^a,b   Piperno, Dolores R ^c,d   Neves, Eduardo G ^e   Bush, Mark B ^b   Almeida, Fernando O ^f   Mongeló, Guilherme ^e   Eyjolfsdottir, Margret B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Florida Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^d DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^f FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SERGIPE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amazonia; Ancient impacts; Archeology; Historical legacies; Paleoecology; Pre Columbian; Vegetation dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 85027164299     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2296701X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2015.00141     Document Type: Article

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