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Article: Non-uniform tropical forest responses to the ‘Columbian Exchange’ in the Neotropics and Asia-Pacific

TitleNon-uniform tropical forest responses to the ‘Columbian Exchange’ in the Neotropics and Asia-Pacific
Authors
Issue Date2021
PublisherNature Publishing Group. The Journal's web site is located at https://www.nature.com/natecolevol/
Citation
Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2021, v. 5 n. 8, p. 1174-1184 How to Cite?
AbstractIt has been suggested that Iberian arrival in the Americas in 1492 and subsequent dramatic depopulation led to forest regrowth that had global impacts on atmospheric CO2 concentrations and surface temperatures. Despite tropical forests representing the most important terrestrial carbon stock globally, systematic examination of historical afforestation in these habitats in the Neotropics is lacking. Additionally, there has been no assessment of similar depopulation–afforestation dynamics in other parts of the global tropics that were incorporated into the Spanish Empire. Here, we compile and semi-quantitatively analyse pollen records from the regions claimed by the Spanish in the Atlantic and Pacific to provide pan-tropical insights into European colonial impacts on forest dynamics. Our results suggest that periods of afforestation over the past millennium varied across space and time and depended on social, economic and biogeographic contexts. We argue that this reveals the unequal and divergent origins of the Anthropocene as a socio-political and biophysical process, highlighting the need for higher-resolution, targeted analyses to fully elucidate pre-colonial and colonial era human–tropical landscape interactions.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/307607
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dc.contributor.authorHamilton, R-
dc.contributor.authorWolfhagen, J-
dc.contributor.authorAmano, N-
dc.contributor.authorBoivin, N-
dc.contributor.authorFindley, DM-
dc.contributor.authorIriarte, J-
dc.contributor.authorKaplan, JO-
dc.contributor.authorStevenson, J-
dc.contributor.authorRoberts, P-
dc.date.accessioned2021-11-12T13:35:05Z-
dc.date.available2021-11-12T13:35:05Z-
dc.date.issued2021-
dc.identifier.citationNature Ecology & Evolution, 2021, v. 5 n. 8, p. 1174-1184-
dc.identifier.issn2397-334X-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/307607-
dc.description.abstractIt has been suggested that Iberian arrival in the Americas in 1492 and subsequent dramatic depopulation led to forest regrowth that had global impacts on atmospheric CO2 concentrations and surface temperatures. Despite tropical forests representing the most important terrestrial carbon stock globally, systematic examination of historical afforestation in these habitats in the Neotropics is lacking. Additionally, there has been no assessment of similar depopulation–afforestation dynamics in other parts of the global tropics that were incorporated into the Spanish Empire. Here, we compile and semi-quantitatively analyse pollen records from the regions claimed by the Spanish in the Atlantic and Pacific to provide pan-tropical insights into European colonial impacts on forest dynamics. Our results suggest that periods of afforestation over the past millennium varied across space and time and depended on social, economic and biogeographic contexts. We argue that this reveals the unequal and divergent origins of the Anthropocene as a socio-political and biophysical process, highlighting the need for higher-resolution, targeted analyses to fully elucidate pre-colonial and colonial era human–tropical landscape interactions.-
dc.languageeng-
dc.publisherNature Publishing Group. The Journal's web site is located at https://www.nature.com/natecolevol/-
dc.relation.ispartofNature Ecology & Evolution-
dc.rightsThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.-
dc.titleNon-uniform tropical forest responses to the ‘Columbian Exchange’ in the Neotropics and Asia-Pacific-
dc.typeArticle-
dc.identifier.emailKaplan, JO: jkaplan@hku.hk-
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dc.description.naturepublished_or_final_version-
dc.identifier.doi10.1038/s41559-021-01474-4-
dc.identifier.pmid34112995-
dc.identifier.pmcidPMC8324576-
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dc.identifier.hkuros329568-
dc.identifier.volume5-
dc.identifier.issue8-
dc.identifier.spage1174-
dc.identifier.epage1184-
dc.identifier.isiWOS:000659806900002-
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom-

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