Insights into past land-use and vegetation change in the Llanos de Moxos (Bolivia) using fungal non-pollen palynomorphs
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8063446 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nicholas J D Loughlin (0000-0003-2205-044X, Northumbria University, corresponding author), Francis E Mayle (0000-0001-9208-0519, University of Reading), Noelia B Nuñez Otaño (0000-0001-6235-3942, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas), Jennifer M K O’Keefe (0000-0003-1793-593X, Morehead State University), Neil A Duncan (0000-0002-3178-7454, University of Central Florida), John H Walker (0000-0002-8095-5434, University of Central Florida), Bronwen S Whitney (0000-0002-2329-9645, Northumbria University) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 130 |
| Pages | 105382-105382 |
| Publication date | 2021-04-23 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Archaeological Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-4403 • E-ISSN: 1095-9238 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.jas.2021.105382 |
| OpenAlex | W3157172077 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 70 |
Here we document a 1000-year fungal record from the raised-field region of the Llanos de Moxos, a seasonally inundated forest-savanna mosaic in the Bolivian Amazon. Fungi are extremely sensitive to changes in vegetation due to their close relationship with the local environment, providing a useful proxy for past local vegetation and land-use change. Here the remains of fungal non-pollen palynomorphs (NPPs) are identified from a sediment core taken from Laguna El Cerrito. A multivariate constrained ordination is used to extract relationships between the fungal NPP types and environmental gradients, specifically, tree cover, near-shore vegetation, crop cultivation, burning and local sediment input. NPP types such as Neurospora cf. cerealis are identified as indicative of pre-European agriculture and offer the ability to expand on the temporal range of cultivation in the raised-field region. Constrained cluster analysis indicates that the most significant changes in the NPP assemblage occurs c. 1500 and c. 1700 CE, corresponding to the arrival of Europeans to the Americas and Jesuit missionaries to the Llanos de Moxos respectively. The modern savanna landscape is one shaped by changes in land-use and the introduction of cattle following the European Encounter
Biology · Geography · Grassland · Land use · Ordination · Paleoecology · Physical geography · Pollen · Vegetation (pathology · Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Ecology
Spores of the Dung Fungus Sporormiella
Four thousand years of environmental change and human activity in the Cochabamba Basin, Bolivia
Pre-Columbian landscape impact and agriculture in the Monumental Mound region of the Llanos de Moxos , lowland Bolivia
Identifying environmental drivers of fungal non-pollen palynomorphs in the montane forest of the eastern Andean flank, Ecuador
The Handbook of South American Archaeology
Pleistocene Megafaunal Collapse, Novel Plant Communities, and Enhanced Fire Regimes in North America
Very high resolution interpolated climate surfaces for global land areas
The Domesticated Landscapes of the Bolivian Amazon
Earth system impacts of the European arrival and Great Dying in the Americas after 1492
Fossil ascomycetes in Quaternary deposits
Determination of the number of zones in a biostratigraphical sequence
Canonical Correspondence Analysis
Early Holocene crop cultivation and landscape modification in Amazonia
Amazonia
Amazonia 1492
An artificial landscape-scale fishery in the Bolivian Amazon
Loss on ignition as a method for estimating organic and carbonate content in sediments
Flexible paleoclimate age-depth models using an autoregressive gamma process
A palaeoecological study of holocene peat bog sections in Germany and The Netherlands, based on the analysis of pollen, spores and macro- and microscopic remains of fungi, algae, cormophytes and animals
Biogeography of the Llanos de Moxos
Late Quaternary palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of central Tierra del Fuego (Argentina) based on pollen and fungi
Integrating fire-scar, charcoal and fungal spore data to study fire events in the boreal forest of northern Europe
Relating dung fungal spore influx rates to animal density in a temperate environment
Grazing impacts and woodland management in Eriksfjord
Woodland disturbance and possible land-use regimes during the Late Mesolithic in the English uplands
Human-made fires and forest clearance as evidence for late Holocene landscape domestication in the Orinoco Llanos (Venezuela)
Pollen and non-pollen palynomorph evidence of medieval farming activities in southwestern Greenland
Fresh insights into the palaeoecological and palaeoclimatological value of Quaternary non-pollen palynomorphs
Modern and fossil non-pollen palynomorphs from the Basque mountains (western Pyrenees, France)
Environmental reconstruction of a Roman Period settlement site in Uitgeest (The Netherlands), with special reference to coprophilous fungi
IntCal, SHCal, or a Mixed Curve? Choosing a 14 C Calibration Curve for Archaeological and Paleoenvironmental Records from Tropical South America
SHCal20 Southern Hemisphere Calibration, 0–55,000 Years cal BP
Human–environment interactions in pre-Columbian Amazonia
Raised fields in the Bolivian Amazonia
Pre-Columbian raised-field agriculture and land use in the Bolivian Amazon
Mission Culture on the Upper Amazon
Time and Complexity in Historical Ecology
| Citations per year | 0.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |