The Emptied Amazon · source record · paper

Comment on 'Persistent effects of pre-Columbian plant domestication on Amazonian forest composition'

Crystal N. H. McMichael; Kenneth J. Feeley; Christopher W. Dick; Dolores R. Piperno; Mark B. Bush; Science (Technical Comment) · 2017

AI-verified citationSRC-MCMICHAEL-2017

identifier / locator: Science 358(6361) eaan8347, doi:10.1126/science.aan8347
url: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aan8347
verification note: Verified 2026-08-28 via Deep Blue repository copy; abstract checked verbatim.

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Qualifies· moderateAMZ-E013

what the source states: "The study, however, downplays five centuries of human influence following European arrival to the Americas. We show that the effects of post-Columbian activities in Amazonia are likely to have played a larger role than pre-Columbian ones in shaping the observed floristic patterns."