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Pre-Columbian red pine (Pinus resinosa Ait.) fire regimes of north-central Pennsylvania, USA
BackgroundFire-dependent vegetation communities in the northeastern USA have undergone significant transitions since social and ecological...
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Combining Milpa and Push-Pull Technology for sustainable food production in smallholder agriculture. A review
Achieving food security remains a pressing challenge for small-scale farmers, especially in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. Ongoing climate...
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Human Contribution to Amazonian Plant Diversity: Legacy of Pre-Columbian Land Use in Modern Plant Communities
Amazonia is the world’s largest tropical forest and is globally important in terms of its ecosystem services and extraordinarily high levels of...
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Climate change and cultural resilience in late pre-Columbian Amazonia
The long-term response of ancient societies to climate change has been a matter of global debate. Until recently, the lack of integrative studies...
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Agriculture in the Americas Before the European Conquest
When Columbus first touched the Americas in 1492, there was a massive indigenous population in the western hemisphere of 40–100 million. To feed this...
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Tropical Agriculture Introducer: Christine Padoch
This essay introduces two of Denevan’s articles that contributed profoundly to a reevaluation of Amazonian agriculture both in the present and in the...
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Mechanisms and Processes Sha** Patterns of Forest-Grassland Mosaics in Southern Brazil
Mosaics of forest and grassland are frequent in South Brazilian landscapes, both in the highlands of the Atlantic Forest and southward into the Pampa...
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Dynamics of South Brazilian Grasslands During the Late Quaternary
In many parts of southern Brazil, mosaics of grassland and forests are found, but little is known how this vegetation pattern has been formed. Are...
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Quinoa, A Model Crop for Tomorrow’s Agriculture
The worldwide interest in cultivating quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa, Willd.) is mainly due to the plant’s hardiness and its strong nutritional...
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Human-mediated migration of plants, their pathogens and parasites
The adoption of agriculture in several parts of the world during the early Neolithic period led to a fundamental change in human migration. By...
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Mammalian defaunation across the Devonian kniferidges and meridional plateaus of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest
The vast majority of empirical studies on regional mammal defaunation across the Atlantic Forest biome of South America are concentrated in...
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An unavoidably short history of inland aquatic animal diversity research in the US Virgin Islands
The first freshwater species from the US Virgin Islands (USVI) was described 190 years ago, but research on inland aquatic animals, particularly...
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Fifty Years Later—The Legacy of Alfred Crosby’s “The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492”
Fifty Years Later—The Legacy of Alfred Crosby’s “The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492.” It has been 50 years since...
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Ethnobotany of the Sierra Norte de Puebla
The Sierra Norte de Puebla is an environmentally, biologically, and culturally diverse region comprising 60 municipalities in the north of the state...
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Genomic insights of Fictibacillus terranigra sp. nov., a versatile metabolic bacterium from Amazonian Dark Earths
The Amazon rainforest, a hotspot for biodiversity, is a crucial research area for scientists seeking novel microorganisms with ecological and...
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Human influence on the distribution of cacao: insights from remote sensing and biogeography
Cacao ( Theobroma cacao , Malvaceae) is an important tree crop in Africa and in the Americas. Current genomic evidence suggests that its original range...
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Ethnobotany of the Sierra Norte De Puebla
The Sierra Norte de Puebla is an environmentally, biologically, and culturally diverse region comprising 60 municipalities in the north of the state...
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History and status of local cotton Gossypium spp. in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Ecuador
Cotton ( Gossypium spp.) contains more than 45 diploid (2n = 26) and at least five allotetraploid (2n = 4x = 52) species. The five allotetraploid...
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Use of biochar as a sustainable agronomic tool, its limitations and impact on environment: a review
Ensuring global food security under present and futuristic scenario of climate change accompanied by expanding population is of major concern...
