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

C. Levis; F. R. C. Costa; F. Bongers; M. Peña-Claros; C. R. Clement; A. B. Junqueira; E. G. Neves; E. K. Tamanaha; F. O. G. Figueiredo; R. P. Salomão; C. V. Castilho; W. E. Magnusson; O. L. Phillips; J. E. Guevara; D. Sabatier; J.-F. Molino; D. Cárdenas López; A. M. Mendoza; N. C. A. Pitman; A. Duque; P. Núñez Vargas; C. E. Zartman; R. Vasquez; A. Andrade; J. L. Camargo; T. R. Feldpausch; S. G. W. Laurance; W. F. Laurance; T. J. Killeen; H. E. Mendonça Nascimento; J. C. Montero; B. Mostacedo; I. L. Amaral; I. C. Guimarães Vieira; R. Brienen; H. Castellanos; J. Terborgh; M. de Jesus Veiga Carim; J. R. da Silva Guimarães; L. de Souza Coelho; F. D. de Almeida Matos; F. Wittmann; H. F. Mogollón; G. Damasco; N. Dávila; R. García-Villacorta; E. N. H. Coronado; T. Emilio; D. de Andrade Lima Filho; J. Schietti; P. Souza; N. Targhetta; J. A. Comiskey; B. S. Marimon; B.-H. Marimon; D. Neill; A. Alonso; L. Arroyo; F. A. Carvalho; F. C. de Souza; F. Dallmeier; M. P. Pansonato; J. F. Duivenvoorden; P. V. A. Fine; P. R. Stevenson; A. Araujo-Murakami; G. A. Aymard C.; C. Baraloto; D. D. do Amaral; J. Engel; T. W. Henkel; P. Maas; P. Petronelli; J. D. Cardenas Revilla; J. Stropp; D. Daly; R. Gribel; M. Ríos Paredes; M. Silveira; R. Thomas-Caesar; T. R. Baker; N. F. da Silva; L. V. Ferreira; C. A. Peres; M. R. Silman; C. Cerón; F. C. Valverde; A. Di Fiore; E. M. Jimenez; M. C. Peñuela Mora; M. Toledo; E. M. Barbosa; L. C. de Matos Bonates; N. C. Arboleda; E. de Sousa Farias; A. Fuentes; J.-L. Guillaumet; P. Møller Jørgensen; Y. Malhi; I. P. de Andrade Miranda; J. F. Phillips; A. Prieto; A. Rudas; A. R. Ruschel; N. Silva; P. von Hildebrand; V. A. Vos; E. L. Zent; S. Zent; B. B. L. Cintra; M. T. Nascimento; A. A. Oliveira; H. Ramirez-Angulo; J. F. Ramos; G. Rivas; J. Schöngart; R. Sierra; M. Tirado; G. van der Heijden; E. V. Torre; O. Wang; K. R. Young; C. Baider; A. Cano; W. Farfan-Rios; C. Ferreira; B. Hoffman; C. Mendoza; I. Mesones; A. Torres-Lezama; M. N. U. Medina; T. R. van Andel; D. Villarroel; R. Zagt; M. N. Alexiades; H. Balslev; K. Garcia-Cabrera; T. Gonzales; L. Hernandez; I. Huamantupa-Chuquimaco; A. G. Manzatto; W. Milliken; W. P. Cuenca; S. Pansini; D. Pauletto; F. R. Arevalo; N. F. Costa Reis; A. F. Sampaio; L. E. Urrego Giraldo; E. H. Valderrama Sandoval; L. Valenzuela Gamarra; C. I. A. Vela; H. ter Steege

doi:10.1126/science.aal0157

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

C. Levis, F. R. C. Costa, F. Bongers, M. Peña-Claros, C. R. Clement, A. B. Junqueira, E. G. Neves, E. K. Tamanaha, F. O. G. Figueiredo, R. P. Salomão, C. V. Castilho, W. E. Magnusson, O. L. Phillips, J. E. Guevara, D. Sabatier, J.-F. Molino, D. Cárdenas López, A. M. Mendoza, N. C. A. Pitman, A. DuqueP. Núñez Vargas, C. E. Zartman, R. Vasquez, A. Andrade, J. L. Camargo, T. R. Feldpausch, S. G. W. Laurance, W. F. Laurance, T. J. Killeen, H. E. Mendonça Nascimento, J. C. Montero, B. Mostacedo, I. L. Amaral, I. C. Guimarães Vieira, R. Brienen, H. Castellanos, J. Terborgh, M. de Jesus Veiga Carim, J. R. da Silva Guimarães, L. de Souza Coelho, F. D. de Almeida Matos, F. Wittmann, H. F. Mogollón, G. Damasco, N. Dávila, R. García-Villacorta, E. N. H. Coronado, T. Emilio, D. de Andrade Lima Filho, J. Schietti, P. Souza, N. Targhetta, J. A. Comiskey, B. S. Marimon, B.-H. Marimon, D. Neill, A. Alonso, L. Arroyo, F. A. Carvalho, F. C. de Souza, F. Dallmeier, M. P. Pansonato, J. F. Duivenvoorden, P. V. A. Fine, P. R. Stevenson, A. Araujo-Murakami, G. A. Aymard C., C. Baraloto, D. D. do Amaral, J. Engel, T. W. Henkel, P. Maas, P. Petronelli, J. D. Cardenas Revilla, J. Stropp, D. Daly, R. Gribel, M. Ríos Paredes, M. Silveira, R. Thomas-Caesar, T. R. Baker, N. F. da Silva, L. V. Ferreira, C. A. Peres, M. R. Silman, C. Cerón, F. C. Valverde, A. Di Fiore, E. M. Jimenez, M. C. Peñuela Mora, M. Toledo, E. M. Barbosa, L. C. de Matos Bonates, N. C. Arboleda, E. de Sousa Farias, A. Fuentes, J.-L. Guillaumet, P. Møller Jørgensen, Y. Malhi, I. P. de Andrade Miranda, J. F. Phillips, A. Prieto, A. Rudas, A. R. Ruschel, N. Silva, P. von Hildebrand, V. A. Vos, E. L. Zent, S. Zent, B. B. L. Cintra, M. T. Nascimento, A. A. Oliveira, H. Ramirez-Angulo, J. F. Ramos, G. Rivas, J. Schöngart, R. Sierra, M. Tirado, G. van der Heijden, E. V. Torre, O. Wang, K. R. Young, C. Baider, A. Cano, W. Farfan-Rios, C. Ferreira, B. Hoffman, C. Mendoza, I. Mesones, A. Torres-Lezama, M. N. U. Medina, T. R. van Andel, D. Villarroel, R. Zagt, M. N. Alexiades, H. Balslev, K. Garcia-Cabrera, T. Gonzales, L. Hernandez, I. Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, A. G. Manzatto, W. Milliken, W. P. Cuenca, S. Pansini, D. Pauletto, F. R. Arevalo, N. F. Costa Reis, A. F. Sampaio, L. E. Urrego Giraldo, E. H. Valderrama Sandoval, L. Valenzuela Gamarra, C. I. A. Vela, H. ter Steege

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The marks of prehistoric human societies on tropical forests can still be detected today. Levis et al. performed a basin-wide comparison of plant distributions, archaeological sites, and environmental data. Plants domesticated by pre-Columbian peoples are much more likely to be dominant in Amazonian forests than other species. Furthermore, forests close to archaeological sites often have a higher abundance and richness of domesticated species. Thus, modern-day Amazonian tree communities across the basin remain largely structured by historical human use.Science, this issue p. 925The extent to which pre-Columbian societies altered Amazonian landscapes is hotly debated. We performed a basin-wide analysis of pre-Columbian impacts on Amazonian forests by overlaying known archaeological sites in Amazonia with the distributions and abundances of 85 woody species domesticated by pre-Columbian peoples. Domesticated species are five times more likely than nondomesticated species to be hyperdominant. Across the basin, the relative abundance and richness of domesticated species increase in forests on and around archaeological sites. In southwestern and eastern Amazonia, distance to archaeological sites strongly influences the relative abundance and richness of domesticated species. Our analyses indicate that modern tree communities in Amazonia are structured to an important extent by a long history of plant domestication by Amazonian peoples.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	925-931
Number of pages	7
Journal	Science
Volume	355
Issue number	6328
Early online date	3 Mar 2017
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aal0157
Publication status	Published - 3 Mar 2017

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This paper was made possible by the work of hundreds of different scientists and research institutions in the Amazon over the past 80 years. This work was supported by Asociación para la Conservación de la Cuenca Amazónica/Amazon Conservation Association (ACCA/ACA); Alberta Mennega Stichting; ALCOA Suriname; Banco de la República; Centre for Agricultural Research in Suriname (CELOS Suriname); Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) (Plano Nacional de Pós-Graduação); CAPES Ciencia sem Fronteiras (PVE 177/2012); Conselho Nacional de Desenvovimento Científico e Tecnológico of Brazil (CNPq) Projects CNPq/FAPEAM-INCT CENBAM (573721/2008-4), PPBio Manaus (CNPq 558318/2009-6), CNPq-PPBio-AmOc (457544/2012-0), CNPq-PQ (304088/2011-0 and 306368/2013-7), Hidroveg Universal CNPq (473308/2009-6), Projeto Cenarios FINEP/CNPq (52.0103/2009-2), CNPq-SWE (201573/2014-8), CNPq-SWE (207400/2014-8), CNPq Universal (307807-2009-6), CNPq Universal (479599/2008-4), CNPq Universal 458210/2014-5, and CNPq Universal 303851/2015-5; Colciencias; Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Amazonas (FAPEAM) projects with Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (09/53369-6 and 465/2010) and PRONEX-FAPEAM (1600/2006); Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation; Guyana Forestry Commission; Investissement d'Avenir grant of the French L'Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) (Centre d'Étude de la Biodiversité Amazonienne: ANR-10-LABX-0025); Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas of Venezuela; Lincoln Park Zoo; Margaret Mee Amazon Trust; Margot Marsh Foundation; Marie Sklodowska-Curie/European Union's Horizon 2020 (706011); Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação (MCTI)-Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi-Proc. 407232/2013-3-PVE-MEC/MCTI/CAPES/CNPq; Miquel fonds; Netherlands Foundation for the Advancement of Tropical Research WOTRO: grants WB85-335 and W84-581; Nuffic; Primate Conservation; Stichting het van Eeden-fonds; Shell Prospecting and Development of Peru; Tropenbos International; UniAndes; Variety Woods Guyana; U.S. National Science Foundation Projects (DEB-0918591, DEB-1258112, and DEB-1556338) and Wenner-Gren Foundation; Venezuela National Council for Scientific Research and Technology (CONICIT); Wageningen University (Interdisciplinary Research and Education Fund Terra Preta program and FOREFRONT program); Aarhus University; Wake Forest University; and WWF-Guianas and grants to RAINFOR from the Natural Environment Research Council (UK) and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation European Union. O.L.P. is supported by a European Research Council Advanced Grant and a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award. We thank J. Chave, A. Vincentini, C. Vriesendorp, U. Lombardo, and H. Prümers for providing data and B. Monteiro Flores for constructive comments on the manuscript. A.B.J. and E.K.T. thank all archaeologists who contributed with archaeological coordinates. All data described in the paper are present in the main text and the supplementary materials, and custom R scripts used in analyses are provided in the supplementary materials. Additional data related to this paper can be obtained by contacting authors. C.L., H.t.S., F.R.C.C, F.B., M.P.-C, C.R.C., and A.B.J conceived the study and designed the analyses. C.L. and H.t.S. carried out most analyses. C.L., H.t.S., F.R.C.C, F.B., M.P.-C, C.R.C., A.B.J, and N.C.A.P. wrote the manuscript. All of the other authors contributed data, discussed further analyses, and commented on various versions of the manuscript. This is contribution 708 of the technical series of the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project (BDFFP).

Funders	Funder number
Departamento Administrativo de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación (COLCIENCIAS)
Alberta Conservation Association
Margot Marsh Foundation
Guyana Forestry Commission
Margaret Mee Amazon Trust
Asociación para la Conservación de la Cuenca Amazónica
Consejo Nacional para Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas
Amazon Conservation Association
Aarhus Universitet
Venezuela National Council for Scientific Research and Technology
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation European Union
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior
Wenner-Gren Foundation
Wake Forest University
Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas
Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação
Alberta Mennega Stichting
Wageningen University and Research
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Amazonas
Royal Society
European Research Council
Horizon 2020
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Not added	DEB-0918591, 0918591, 1556338, DEB-1258112
FAPEAM-INCT CENBAM	573721/2008-4
Projeto Cenarios FINEP	52.0103/2009-2
PPBio Manaus	558318/2009-6
CAPES Ciencia sem Fronteiras	PVE 177/2012
CNPq Universal	Universal 458210/2014-5, 479599/2008-4, Universal 303851/2015-5
Hidroveg Universal CNPq	473308/2009-6
Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi-Proc	407232/2013-3
CNPq-SWE	207400/2014-8, 201573/2014-8, 307807-2009-6
CNPq-PQ	306368/2013-7, 304088/2011-0
L'Agence Nationale de la Recherche	ANR-10-LABX-0025
Lung Foundation Netherlands	WB85-335, W84-581
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo	1600/2006, 465/2010, 09/53369-6
CNPq-PPBio-AmOc	457544/2012-0
Horizon 2020 Framework Programme	706011
Natural Environment Research Council	NE/N011570/1, NE/N012542/1, NE/M022021/1, NE/J023418/1, NE/D01025X/1

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Levis, C., Costa, F. R. C., Bongers, F., Peña-Claros, M., Clement, C. R., Junqueira, A. B., Neves, E. G., Tamanaha, E. K., Figueiredo, F. O. G., Salomão, R. P., Castilho, C. V., Magnusson, W. E., Phillips, O. L., Guevara, J. E., Sabatier, D., Molino, J.-F., López, D. C., Mendoza, A. M., Pitman, N. C. A., ... ter Steege, H. (2017). Persistent effects of pre-Columbian plant domestication on Amazonian forest composition. Science, 355(6328), 925-931. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aal0157

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PY - 2017/3/3

Y1 - 2017/3/3

N2 - The marks of prehistoric human societies on tropical forests can still be detected today. Levis et al. performed a basin-wide comparison of plant distributions, archaeological sites, and environmental data. Plants domesticated by pre-Columbian peoples are much more likely to be dominant in Amazonian forests than other species. Furthermore, forests close to archaeological sites often have a higher abundance and richness of domesticated species. Thus, modern-day Amazonian tree communities across the basin remain largely structured by historical human use.Science, this issue p. 925The extent to which pre-Columbian societies altered Amazonian landscapes is hotly debated. We performed a basin-wide analysis of pre-Columbian impacts on Amazonian forests by overlaying known archaeological sites in Amazonia with the distributions and abundances of 85 woody species domesticated by pre-Columbian peoples. Domesticated species are five times more likely than nondomesticated species to be hyperdominant. Across the basin, the relative abundance and richness of domesticated species increase in forests on and around archaeological sites. In southwestern and eastern Amazonia, distance to archaeological sites strongly influences the relative abundance and richness of domesticated species. Our analyses indicate that modern tree communities in Amazonia are structured to an important extent by a long history of plant domestication by Amazonian peoples.

AB - The marks of prehistoric human societies on tropical forests can still be detected today. Levis et al. performed a basin-wide comparison of plant distributions, archaeological sites, and environmental data. Plants domesticated by pre-Columbian peoples are much more likely to be dominant in Amazonian forests than other species. Furthermore, forests close to archaeological sites often have a higher abundance and richness of domesticated species. Thus, modern-day Amazonian tree communities across the basin remain largely structured by historical human use.Science, this issue p. 925The extent to which pre-Columbian societies altered Amazonian landscapes is hotly debated. We performed a basin-wide analysis of pre-Columbian impacts on Amazonian forests by overlaying known archaeological sites in Amazonia with the distributions and abundances of 85 woody species domesticated by pre-Columbian peoples. Domesticated species are five times more likely than nondomesticated species to be hyperdominant. Across the basin, the relative abundance and richness of domesticated species increase in forests on and around archaeological sites. In southwestern and eastern Amazonia, distance to archaeological sites strongly influences the relative abundance and richness of domesticated species. Our analyses indicate that modern tree communities in Amazonia are structured to an important extent by a long history of plant domestication by Amazonian peoples.

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U2 - 10.1126/science.aal0157

DO - 10.1126/science.aal0157

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SN - 0036-8075

VL - 355

SP - 925

EP - 931

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

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