Response to Comment on "Persistent effects of pre-Columbian plant domestication on Amazonian forest composition".

Junqueira, André Braga; Levis, Carolina; Bongers, Frans; Peña-Claros, Marielos; Clement, Charles Roland; Costa, Flávia; Ter Steege, Hans · Science · 2017

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Abstract

McMichael <i>et al</i> state that we overlooked the effects of post-Columbian human activities in shaping current floristic patterns in Amazonian forests. We formally show that post-Columbian human influences on Amazonian forests are indeed important, but they have played a smaller role when compared to the persistent effects of pre-Columbian human activities on current forest composition.

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