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Open AccessGenetic analyses and dispersal patterns unveil the Amazonian origin of guava domestication
Guava (Psidium guajava L.) is a semi-domesticated fruit tree of moderate importance in the Neotropics, utilized for millennia due to its nutritional and medicinal benefits, but its origin of domestication remains...
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Contributions of human cultures to biodiversity and ecosystem conservation
The expansion of globalized industrial societies is causing global warming, ecosystem degradation, and species and language extinctions worldwide. Mainstream conservation efforts still focus on nature protecti...
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Amazonian Invertebrates in the Traditional diet of the Paiter Suruí in Southeastern Brazil
The Paiter Suruí people in the southwestern Brazilian Amazon have a complex food system that includes insects and crustaceans. We designed our study to systematize data about the invertebrates they incorporate...
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Adaptations of Pre-Columbian Manioc Storage Techniques as Strategies to Adapt to Extreme Climatic Events in Amazonian Floodplains
In Amazonian floodplains, manioc flour is the main plant food product and source of income for local populations. In the context of climate change, extreme flooding is more frequent and intense, making it diff...
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Open AccessEvidence confirms an anthropic origin of Amazonian Dark Earths
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Open AccessSelective signatures and high genome-wide diversity in traditional Brazilian manioc (Manihot esculenta Crantz) varieties
Knowledge about genetic diversity is essential to promote effective use and conservation of crops, because it enables farmers to adapt their crops to specific needs and is the raw material for breeding. Manioc (M...
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Walter Leal Filho, Victor T. King, and Ismar Borges de Lima, Editors, Indigenous Amazonia, Regional Development and Territorial Dynamics: Contentious Issues. Cham, Springer Nature, 2020. ISBN 978–3–030–29,152–5 (Hardback). XVIII + 433 pages
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Genetic structure and diversity identify incipient domestication of Piquiá [Caryocar villosum (Aubl.) pers.] along the lower Tapajós River, Brazilian Amazonia
In Amazonia there are at least 85 arboreal species with domesticated populations, among which piquiá [Caryocar villosum (Aubl.) Pers.] is widely distributed. In some regions, there is ethnobotanical evidence of d...
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Indigenous Agroecology Introducer: Charles R. Clement
The two book chapters in this section synthesize William Denevan’s thinking about how Native Amazonians created and managed agroforestry systems for food production and in the process created an anthropogenic ...
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Archaeobotany of Brazilian Indigenous Peoples and Their Food Plants
In this chapter, we review archaeobotanical evidence for indigenous people’s uses of food plants during the Holocene in what is now Brazil. We present the diversity of plant species used, which includes native...
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Open AccessPre-Columbian soil fertilization and current management maintain food resource availability in old-growth Amazonian forests
The extent and persistence of pre-Columbian human legacies in old-growth Amazonian forests are still controversial, partly because modern societies re-occupied old settlements, challenging the distinction betw...
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Help restore Brazil’s governance of globally important ecosystem services
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Pickersgill, Barbara
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Reference Work Entry In depth
Landscape Domestication and Archaeology
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Domesticated Nature: The Culturally Constructed Niche of Humanity
William Denevan argued that pristine landscapes are a myth, including in Amazonia—imagined by many as one of the last bastions of pristine Nature. During the last century, evidence accumulated to show that hum...
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Genetic diversity and population structure show different patterns of diffusion for bitter and sweet manioc in Brazil
Although many important crops originated in Amazonia, the general patterns of their evolutionary histories are still obscure. Currently a major global food crop, manioc originated in southwestern Amazonia and ...
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Genomic Diversity of Three Brazilian Native Food Crops Based on Double-Digest Restriction Site-Associated DNA Sequencing
The megabiodiversity of Brazil created opportunities for the domestication of a number of crop species, including some of major global importance. Considering the economic value of many Brazilian native crops,...
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The role of fertile anthropogenic soils in the conservation of native and exotic agrobiodiversity in Amazonian homegardens
Amazonian dark earths (ADE) are anthropogenic soils mostly created between 500 and 2500 years ago by pre-Columbian populations. ADE are currently used by local people for different agricultural and agroforestr...
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Ethnobotany and Ethnoecology Applied to Historical Ecology
In this chapter, the reader will find guidelines and suggestions for the application of ethnobotanical and ethnoecological methods in archaeological sites and their surroundings, aiming to establish a closer d...
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The Influence of Soil Quality and Market Orientation on Manioc (Manihot esculenta) Varietal Choice by Smallholder Farmers along the Lower Tapajós River, Pará, Brazil
