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Plant Dominance in the Amazon Is Shaped by Past Civilizations (5 of 15)

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Plant Dominance in the Amazon Is Shaped by Past Civilizations (5 of 15)

image: Forest with domesticated species on anthropogenic dark soils at the Tapajós River. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the March 3, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by C. Levis at Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia - INPA in Manaus, Brazil, and colleagues was titled, "Persistent effects of pre-Columbian plant domestication on Amazonian forest composition." view more 

Credit: Carolina Levis


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