Staff Profile:Professor Frank Mayle

Name:

Professor Frank Mayle

Job Title:

Professor in Tropical Palaeoecology

Responsibilities:

Areas of Interest:

• Millennial, Holocene and Quaternary-scale interactions between pre-Columbian societies, climate change, fire, and tropical ecosystems in tropical South America, especially Amazonia.
• Key techniques: analysis of fossil pollen, charcoal, and phytoliths from lake sediments and soils.

Research questions of current interest: 

• What are the long-term relationships between pre-Columbian (pre-AD1492) human societies, climate change, and natural resource availability in Amazonia through the Holocene (last 12,000 years)?
• How did millennia of pre-Columbian land use alter tropical forest biodiversity in South America, and what are the implications for conservation policy and land use?
• What lessons can we draw from pre-Columbian human-environment relationships in Amazonia - with respect to resilience, sustainability, thresholds, and 'tipping points'?

Postgraduate and Postdoctoral Supervision:

Frank is keen to discuss proposals for research within the broad themes of tropical palaeoecology, palaeoclimatology, and past human-environment interactions.

PhD Supervision:

Current

• Joe Hirst – The domestication of Amazon rainforests by pre-Columbian societies. ('SCENARIO' NERC DTP award, 2020-2023).
• James Hill – Millennial-scale history of Amazon forest dynamics. (‘SCENARIO’ NERC DTP award, 2017-2020).
• Oliver Wilson – Assessing the resilience of Brazil’s iconic Araucaria forest to past and future climate change. (University of Reading GTA award, 2017-2021).
• Bastiaan van Dalen – Are we reinventing the wheel on environmental sustainability? A comparative archaeological analysis of the tropical forest landscapes of the pre-Columbian Maya lowlands and the Amazon basin. (AHRC DTP award, 2019-2022).

Completions in past 3 years

• Richard Smith - Amazonia under Mid-Holocene Drought. ('SCENARIO' NERC DTP award, 2014-2017).
• Heather Plumpton - Amazonia and the 6K Drought. (UoR Faculty of Science & SAGES award, 2014-2017).

Current Postdocs:

• Marco Raczka – Human-Environment Relationships in pre-Columbian Amazonia (HERCA). (AHRC-FAPESP award, 2019-2023).

Research groups / Centres:

• Archaeology Research Division
• Centre for Past Climate Change
• Tropical Palaeoecology Research Group
• Landscape, Climate and Lived Environment

Current Research Projects:

• Human-Environment Relationships in pre-Columbian Amazonia (HERCA)

 

Key facts:

Frank Mayle has a BSc in Botany from the University of Reading (1986), an MSc in Palynology from the University of Sheffield (1988), and a PhD in Palaeoecology from the University of New Brunswick, Canada (1993), where he studied the impact of abrupt late-glacial climate change upon vegetation of Atlantic Canada. He was a NERC-funded PDRA at Royal Holloway, University of London (1993-94), where he worked with John Lowe on late-glacial environmental change in Scotland. Shortly after taking up his first academic post at the University of Leicester in late 1994, Frank's research focus shifted to tropical South America, where he has worked ever since, examining the impacts of past climate change and human land use upon tropical forest ecosystems, especially in the Bolivian Amazon. He moved to The University of Edinburgh in 2004, before returning to Reading in June 2013.

His earliest forays into the Amazon, published in Science (2000), demonstrated the responsiveness of southern Amazonian forests to millennial-scale climate change. Since then, his interests have evolved to consider, not only the impacts of past climate change upon rainforests, but also pre-Columbian land use and fire. Since 1995, he has led 14 field expeditions to remote corners of lowland Bolivia, in collaboration with the 'Noel Kempff Mercado' Natural History Museum of Santa Cruz, Bolivia. His lab has assembled a Neotropical pollen reference collection of over 1500 Amazonian taxa and has made important methodological advances in pollen analysis and other palaeoenvironmental techniques.

Frank’s interests in Holocene human-environment interactions in the South American tropics have led to fruitful, inter-disciplinary, collaboration with palaeoenvironmental scientists, archaeologists, and biologists across the world – in the UK, Europe, USA, Bolivia, and Brazil.

He is currently leading a large international research project, co-funded by the UK and Brazil, entitled Human-Environment Relationships in pre-Columbian Amazonia - HERCA (AHRC-FAPESP, 2019-2023).

Previous research grants include: Je Landscapes of southern Brazil: Ecology, History and Power in a transitional landscape during the late Holocene (AHRC-FAPESP, 2014-2017); Origin of Biodiversity in the Central Atlantic Forest of Brazil (CNPq, Brazil, 2014-2016); Environmental Impact of the Pre-Columbian geoglyph builders in western Amazonia (National Geographic, 2012-2013); The Origins of Plant Domestication in the Upper Madeira river basin in lowland South America (Newton RCUK-CONFAP, 2015-2016); Pre-Columbian human land-use and impacts in the Bolivian Amazon (The Leverhulme Trust, 2010-2013).

Frank is Associate Editor for The Holocene (2006 - present) and was a member of the NERC Environment radiocarbon panel from 2014-2020.

Publications:

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Number of items: 61.

2020

• Smith, R. J., Mayle, F. E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9208-0519, Maezumi, S. Y. and Power, M. J. (2020) Relating pollen representation to an evolving Amazonian landscape between the last glacial maximum and late Holocene. Quaternary Research. ISSN 1096-0287 doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/qua.2020.64
• Francisquini, M. I., Lorente, F. L., Pessenda, L. C.R., Buso Jr., A. A., Mayle, F. E., Cohen, M. C.L., Franca, M. C., Bendassolli, J. A., Giannini, P. C.F., Schiavo, J. A. and Macario, K. (2020) Cold and humid Atlantic forest during the late glacial, northern Espírito Santo state, southeastern Brazil. Quaternary Science Reviews. ISSN 0277-3791 (In Press)
• Gomes, V. H. F., Mayle, F. E., Gosling, W. D., Vieira, I. C. G., Salomão, R. P. and ter Steege, H. (2020) Modelling the distribution of Amazonian tree species in response to long-term climate change during the mid-late Holocene. Journal of Biogeography, 47 (7). pp. 1530-1540. ISSN 1365-2699 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13833
• Plumpton, H. J., Mayle, F. E. and Whitney, B. S. (2020) Palaeoecological potential of phytoliths from lake sediment records from the tropical lowlands of Bolivia. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 275. 104113. ISSN 0034-6667 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2019.104113
• Montoya, E., Lombardo, U., Levis, C., Aymard, G. A. and Mayle, F. E. (2020) Human contribution to Amazonian plant diversity: legacy of pre-Columbian land use in modern plant communities. In: Rull, V. and Carnaval, A. (eds.) Neotropical Diversification: Patterns and Processes. Fascinating Life Sciences. Springer, Berlin, pp. 495-520. ISBN 9783030311674 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31167-4
• Schiavo, J. A., Pessenda, L. C. R., Buso Junior, A. A., Calegari, M. R., Fornari, M., Secretti, M. L., Pereira, M. G. and Mayle, F. E. (2020) Genesis and variation spatial of Podzol in depressions of the Barreiras formation, northeastern Espírito Santo State, Brazil, and its implications for Quaternary climate change. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 98. 102435. ISSN 0895-9811 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2019.102435
• Plumpton, H. J., Mayle, F. E. and Whitney, B. S. (2020) Long-term impacts of mid-Holocene drier climatic conditions on Bolivian tropical dry forests. Quaternary Research, 93 (1). pp. 204-224. ISSN 1096-0287 doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/qua.2019.55

2019

• Wilson, O. J., Walters, R. J., Mayle, F. E., Lingner, D. V. and Vibrans, A. C. (2019) Cold spot microrefugia hold the key to survival for Brazil's critically endangered Araucaria tree. Global Change Biology, 25 (12). pp. 4339-4251. ISSN 1365-2486 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14755
• de Souza, J. G., Robinson, M., Maezumi, Y., Capriles, J., Hoggarth, J. A., Lombardo, U., Novello, V. F., Apaestegui, J., Whitney, B., Urrego, D., Alves, D. T., Rostain, S., Power, M. J., Mayle, F. E., da Cruz Jr, F. W., Hooghiemstra, H. and Iriarte, J. (2019) Climate change and cultural resilience in late pre-Columbian Amazonia. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 3 (7). pp. 1007-1017. ISSN 2397-334X doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0924-0
• Cardenas, M., Wilson, O., Schorn, L., Mayle, F. and Iriarte, J. (2019) A quantitative study of modern pollen-vegetation relationships in southern Brazil's Araucaria forest. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 265. pp. 27-40. ISSN 0034-6667 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2019.03.003
• Buso Junior, A. A., Pessenda, L. C. R., Mayle, F. E., Lorente, F. L., Volkmer-Ribeiro, C., Schiavo, J. A., Pereira, M. G., Bendassolli, J. A., Macario, K. C. D. and Siqueira, G. S. (2019) Palaeovegetation and palaeoclimate dynamics during the last 7000 years in the Atlantic forest of Southeastern Brazil based on palynology of a waterlogged sandy soil. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 264. pp. 1-10. ISSN 0034-6667 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2019.02.002
• Lombardo, U., Ruiz-Perez, J., Rodriguez, L., Mestrot, A., Mayle, F., Madella, M., Szidat, S. and Veit, H. (2019) Holocene land cover change in south-western Amazonia inferred from paleoflood archives. Global and Planetary Change, 174. pp. 105-114. ISSN 0921-8181 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2019.01.008
• Whitney, B. S., Smallman, T. L., Mitchard, E. T. A., Carson, J. F., Mayle, F. and Bunting, M. J. (2019) Constraining pollen-based estimates of forest cover in the Amazon: a simulation approach. The Holocene, 29 (2). pp. 262-270. ISSN 0959-6836 doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683618810394
• Plumpton, H., Whitney, B. and Mayle, F. (2019) Ecosystem turnover in palaeoecological records: the sensitivity of pollen and phytolith proxies to detecting vegetation change in southwestern Amazonia. The Holocene, 29 (11). pp. 1720-1730. ISSN 1477-0911 doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683619862021

2018

• Maezumi, S. Y., Whitney, B. S., Mayle, F. E., de Souza, J. G. and Iriarte, J. (2018) Reassessing climate and pre-Columbian drivers of paleofire activity in the Bolivian Amazon. Quaternary International, 488. pp. 81-94. ISSN 1040-6182 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2017.11.053
• Lorente, F. L., Pessenda, L. C. R., Oboh-Ikuenobe, A. A. B. J., de Fatima Rossetti, D., Giannini, P. C. F., Cohen, M. C. L., de Oliveira, P. E., Mayle, F. E., Francisquini, M. C. F., Bendassolli, J. A. and Macario, K. (2018) An 11,000-year record of depositional environmental change based upon particulate organic matter and stable isotopes (C and N) in a lake sediment in southeastern Brazil. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 84. pp. 373-384. ISSN 0895-9811 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2018.04.006
• Watling, J., Mayle, F. E. and Schaan, D. (2018) Historical ecology, human niche construction and landscape in pre-Columbian Amazonia: a case study of the geoglyph builders of Acre, Brazil. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 50. pp. 128-139. ISSN 0278-4165 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2018.05.001
• Gosling, W. D., Julier, A. C.M., Adu-Bredu, S., Djagbletey, G. D., Fraser, W. T., Jardine, P. E., Lomax, B. H., Malhi, Y., Manu, E. A., Mayle, F. E. and Moore, S. (2018) Pollen-vegetation richness and diversity relationships in the tropics. Vegetation History & Archaeobotany, 27 (2). pp. 411-418. ISSN 1617-6278 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-017-0642-y
• Smith, R. J. and Mayle, F. E. (2018) Impact of mid-to-late Holocene precipitation changes on vegetation across lowland tropical South America: a palaeo-data synthesis. Quaternary Research, 89 (1). pp. 134-155. ISSN 0033-5894 doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/qua.2017.89
• Robinson, M., De Souza, J. G., Maezumi, S. Y., Cardenas, M., Pessenda, L., Prufer, K., Corteletti, R., Scunderlick, D., Mayle, F. E., De Blasis, P. and Iriarte, J. (2018) Uncoupling human and climate drivers of late Holocene vegetation change in southern Brazil. Scientific Reports, 8. 7800. ISSN 2045-2322 doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-24429-5

2017

• Sánchez Goñi, M. F., Desprat, S., Daniau, A.-L., Bassinot, F. C., Polanco-Martínez, J. M., Harrison, S. P., Allen, J. R. M., Anderson, R. S., Behling, H., Bonnefille, R., Burjachs, F., Carrión, J. S., Cheddadi, R., Clark, J. S., Combourieu-Nebout, N., Courtney-Mustaphi, C. J., Debusk, G. H., Dupont, L. M., Finch, J. M., Fletcher, W. J., Giardini, M., González, C., Gosling, W. D., Grigg, L. D., Grimm, E. C., Hayashi, R., Helmens, K., Heusser, L. E., Hill, T., Hope, G., Huntley, B., Igarashi, Y., Irino, T., Jacobs, B., Jiménez-Moreno, G., Kawai, S., Kershaw, P., Kumon, F., Lawson, I. T., Ledru, M.-P., Lézine, A.-M., Liew, P. M., Magri, D., Marchant, R., Margari, V., Mayle, F. E., McKenzie, M., Moss, P., Müller, S., Müller, U. C., Naughton, F., Newnham, R. M., Oba, T., Pérez-Obiol, R., Pini, R., Ravazzi, C., Roucoux, K. H., Rucina, S. M., Scott, L., Takahara, H., Tzedakis, P. C., Urrego, D. H., van Geel, B., Valencia, B. G., Vandergoes, M. J., Vincens, A., Whitlock, C. L., Willard, D. A. and Yamamoto, M. (2017) The ACER pollen and charcoal database: a global resource to document vegetation and fire response to abrupt climate changes during the last glacial period. Earth System Science Data, 9 (2). pp. 679-695. ISSN 1866-3516 doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-9-679-2017
• Iriarte, J., Smith, R. J., de Souza, J. G., Mayle, F. E., Whitney, B. S., Cardenas, M. L., Singarayer, J., Carson, J. F., Roy, S. and Valdes, P. (2017) Out of Amazonia: late-Holocene climate change and the Tupi–Guarani trans-continental expansion. The Holocene, 27 (7). pp. 967-975. ISSN 0959-6836 doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683616678461
• Robinson, M., Iriarte, J., de Souza, J., Corteletti, R., Ulguim, P., Fradley, M., Cardenas, M., De Blasis, P., Mayle, F. and Scunderlick, D. (2017) Moieties and mortuary mounds: dualism at a mound and enclosure complex in the southern Brazilian Highlands. Latin American Antiquity, 28 (2). pp. 232-251. ISSN 1045-6635 doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/laq.2017.11
• Watling, J., Iriarte, J., Mayle, F. E., Schaan, D., Pessenda, L. C.R., Loader, N. J., Street-Perrott, F. A., Dickau, R. E., Damasceno, A. and Ranzi, A. (2017) Impact of pre-Columbian 'geoglyph' builders on Amazonian forests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 114 (8). pp. 1868-1873. ISSN 0027-8424 doi: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1614359114

2016

• de Souza, J. G., Robinson, M., Corteletti, R., Cárdenas, M. L., Wolf, S., Iriarte, J., Mayle, F. and DeBlasis, P. (2016) Understanding the chronology and occupation dynamics of oversized pit houses in the southern Brazilian highlands. PLoS ONE, 11 (7). e0158127. ISSN 1932-6203 doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0158127
• Power, M. J., Whitney, B. S., Mayle, F. E., Neves, D. M., de Boer, E. J. and Maclean, K. S. (2016) Fire, climate and vegetation linkages in the Bolivian Chiquitano Seasonally Dry Tropical Forest. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 371 (1696). 20150165. ISSN 0962-8436 doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0165
• Carson, J. F., Mayle, F. E., Whitney, B. S., Iriarte, J. and Soto, J. D. (2016) Pre-Columbian ring ditch construction and land use on a “chocolate forest island” in the Bolivian Amazon. Journal of Quaternary Science, 31 (4). pp. 337-347. ISSN 0267-8179 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.2835
• Fornace, K. L., Whitney, B. S., Galy, V., Hughen, K. A. and Mayle, F. E. (2016) Late Quaternary environmental change in the interior South American tropics: new insight from leaf wax stable isotopes. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 438. pp. 75-85. ISSN 0012-821X doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2016.01.007
• Watling, J., Iriarte, J., Whitney, B. S., Consuelo, E., Mayle, F., Castro, W., Schaan, D. and Feldpausch, T. R. (2016) Differentiation of neotropical ecosystems by modern soil phytolith assemblages and its implications for palaeoenvironmental and archaeological reconstructions II: Southwestern Amazonian forests. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 226. pp. 30-43. ISSN 0034-6667 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2015.12.002
• Flantua, S. G. A., Hooghiemstra, H., Vuille, M., Behling, H., Carson, J. F., Gosling, W. D., Hoyos, I., Ledru, M. P., Montoya, E., Mayle, F., Maldonado, A., Rull, V., Tonello, M. S., Whitney, B. S. and González-Arango, C. (2016) Climate variability and human impact in South America during the last 2000 years: synthesis and perspectives from pollen records. Climate of the Past, 12 (2). pp. 483-523. ISSN 1814-9332 doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-12-483-2016
• Matthews-Bird, F., Gosling, W. D., Coe, A. L., Bush, M., Mayle, F. E., Axford, Y. and Brooks, S. J. (2016) Environmental controls on the distribution and diversity of lentic Chironomidae (Insecta: Diptera) across an altitudinal gradient in tropical South America. Ecology and Evolution, 6 (1). pp. 91-112. ISSN 2045-7758 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.1833

2015

• Cárdenas, M. L., Robinson, M., Corteletti, R., Ulguim, P., Gregório de Souza, J., Iriarte, J., Mayle, F. E., Scunderlick Eloy de Farias, D. and DeBlasis, P. (2015) Integrating archaeology and palaeoecology to understand Jê landscapes in southern Brazil. Antiquity Project Gallery, 348.
• Carson, J., Watling, J., Mayle, F., Whitney, B. S., Iriarte, J., Prumers, H. and Soto, J. D. (2015) Pre-Columbian land use in the ring-ditch region of the Bolivian Amazon. The Holocene, 25 (8). pp. 1285-1300. ISSN 0959-6836 doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683615581204
• Maezumi, S. Y., Power, M. J., Mayle, F. E., McLauchlan, K. K. and Iriarte, J. (2015) Effects of past climate variability on fire and vegetation in the cerrãdo savanna of the Huanchaca Mesetta, NE Bolivia. Climate of the Past, 11 (6). pp. 835-853. ISSN 1814-9324 doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-11-835-2015

2014

• Carson, J., Whitney, B., Mayle, F., Iriarte, J., Prümers, H., Soto, J. D. and Watling, J. (2014) Reply to Silva: Dynamic human-vegetation-climate interactions at forest ecotones during the late-Holocene in lowland South America. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 111 (37). E3833-E3833. ISSN 0027-8424 doi: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1413867111
• Carson, J. F., Whitney, B. S., Mayle, F. E., Iriarte, J., Prümers, H. and Watling, J. (2014) Environmental impact of geometric earthwork construction in pre-Columbian Amazonia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 111 (29). pp. 10497-10502. ISSN 0027-8424 doi: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1321770111
• Metcalfe, S. E., Whitney, B. S., Fitzpatrick, K. A., Mayle, F. E., Loader, N. J., Street-Perrott, A. A. and Mann, D. G. (2014) Hydrology and climatology at Laguna La Gaiba, lowland Bolivia: complex responses to climatic forcings over the last 25,000 years. Journal of Quaternary Science, 29 (3). pp. 289-300. ISSN 1099-1417 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.2702
• Whitney, B. S., Dickau, R., Mayle, F. E., Walker, J. H., Soto, J. D. and Iriarte, J. (2014) Pre-Columbian raised-field agriculture and land use in the Bolivian Amazon. The Holocene, 24 (2). pp. 231-241. ISSN 0959-6836 doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683613517401
• Whitney, B. S., Mayle, F. E., Burn, M. J., Guillen, R., Chavez, E. and Pennington, R. T. (2014) Sensitivity of Bolivian seasonally-dry tropical forest to precipitation and temperature changes over glacial-interglacial timescales. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 23 (1). pp. 1-14. ISSN 1617-6278 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-013-0395-1
• Bush, M. B., McMichael, C. H., Raczka, M. F., de Toledo, M. B., Power, M. J., Mayle, F. E. and de Oliveira, P. E. (2014) The Holocene of the Amazon. In: de Souza Carvalho, I., Garcia, M. J., Strohschoen, O. and Lana, C. C. (eds.) Paleontologia: Cenarios de Vida - Paleoclimas. Interciencia, pp. 387-396. ISBN 9788571933439
• Bush, M. B., de Oliveira, P. E. D., Raczka, M. F., Gosling, W. D., Mayle, F. E., McMichael, C. H. and Urrego, D. H. (2014) Paleocliates of Amazonia: An Ice-Age view. In: de Souza Carvalho, I., Garcia, M. J., Strohschoen, O. and Lana, C. C. (eds.) Paleontologia: Cenarios de Vida - Paleoclimas. Interciencia, Rio de Janeiro, pp. 353-368. ISBN 9788571933439

2013

• Whitney, B. S., Dickau, R., Mayle, F. E., Soto, J. D. and Iriarte, J. (2013) Pre-Columbian landscape impact and agriculture in the Monumental Mound region of the Llanos de Moxos, lowland Bolivia. Quaternary Research, 80 (2). pp. 207-217. ISSN 0033-5894 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yqres.2013.06.005
• Power, M. J., Mayle, F. E., Bartlein, P. J., Marlon, J. R., Anderson, R. S., Behling, H., Brown, K. J., Carcaillet, C., Colombaroli, D., Gavin, D. G., Hallett, D. J., Horn, S. P., Kennedy, L. M., Lane, C. S., Long, C. J., Moreno, P. I., Paitre, C., Robinson, G., Taylor, Z. and Walsh, M. K. (2013) Climatic control of the biomass-burning decline in the Americas after AD 1500. The Holocene, 23 (1). pp. 3-13. ISSN 0959-6836 doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683612450196
• Dickau, R., Whitney, B. S., Iriarte, J., Mayle, F. E., Soto, J. D., Metcalfe, P., Street-Perrott, F. A., Loader, N. J., Ficken, K. J. and Killeen, T. J. (2013) Differentiation of neotropical ecosystems by modern soil phytolith assemblages and its implications for palaeoenvironmental and archaeological reconstructions. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 193. pp. 15-37. ISSN 0034-6667 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2013.01.004
• Mayle, F. E. and Iriarte, J. (2013) Integrated palaeoecology and archaeology: a powerful approach for understanding pre-Columbian Amazonia. Journal of Archaeological Science, 51. pp. 54-64. ISSN 0305-4403 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2012.08.038

2012

• Dickau, R., Bruno, M.C., Iriarte, J., Prumers, H., Betancourt, C. J., Holst, I. and Mayle, F. E. (2012) Diversity of cultivars and other plant resources used at habitation sites in the Llanos de Mojos, Beni, Bolivia: Evidence from macrobotanical remains, starch grains, and phytoliths. Journal of Archaeological Science, 39 (2). pp. 357-370. ISSN 0305-4403 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2011.09.021
• Iriarte, J., Power, M. J., Rostain, S., Mayle, F. E., Jones, H., Watling, J., Whitney, B. S. and McKey, D. B. (2012) Fire-free land use in pre-1492 Amazonian savannas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109 (17). pp. 6473-6478. ISSN 1091-6490 doi: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1201461109
• Mayle, F. E. and Whitney, B. S. (2012) Long-term perspectives on tropical forest-savanna dynamics in lowland Bolivia from the last ice age until the present. In: Myster, R. M. (ed.) Ecotones between forest and grassland. Springer, New York, pp. 189-207. ISBN 9781461437963
• Whitney, B. and Mayle, F. (2012) Pediastrum species as potential indicators of lake-level change in tropical South America. Journal of Paleolimnology, 47 (4). pp. 601-615. ISSN 0921-2728 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-012-9583-8
• Whitney, B. S., Rushton, E. A. C., Carson, J. F., Iriarte, J. and Mayle, F. E. (2012) An improved methodology for the recovery of Zea mays and other large crop pollen, with implications for environmental archaeology in the Neotropics. The Holocene, 22 (10). pp. 1087-1096. ISSN 0959-6836 doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683612441842

2011

• Whitney, B. S., Mayle, F. E., Punyasena, S. W., Fitzpatrick, K. A., Burn, M. J., Guillen, R., Chavez, E., Mann, D., Pennington, R. T. and Metcalfe, S. E. (2011) A 45 kyr palaeoclimate record from the lowland interior of tropical South America. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 307 (1-4). pp. 177-192. ISSN 0031-0182 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.05.012
• Jones, H. T., Mayle, F. E., Pennington, R. T. and Killeen, T. J. (2011) Characterisation of Bolivian savanna ecosystems by their modern pollen rain and implications for fossil pollen records. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 164 (3-4). pp. 223-237. ISSN 0034-6667 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2011.01.001
• Mayle, F. E. (2011) A review of Holocene rainforest ecotonal dynamics at opposite ends of the Amazon - Bolivia versus Colombia. Geographica Helvetica, 66 (3). pp. 202-207. ISSN 2194-8798 doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-66-202-2011

2010

• Burn, M. J., Mayle, F. E. and Killeen, T. J. (2010) Pollen-based differentiation of Amazonian rainforest communities and implications for lowland palaeoecology in tropical South America. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 295 (1-2). pp. 1-18. ISSN 0031-0182 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.05.009

2009

• Gosling, W. D., Mayle, F. E., Tate, N. J. and Killeen, T. J. (2009) Differentiation between Neotropical rainforest, dry forest and savannah ecosystems by their modern pollen spectra and implications for the fossil pollen record. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 153 (1-2). pp. 70-85. ISSN 0034-6667 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2008.06.007
• Urrego, D. H., Bush, M. B., Silman, M. R., Correa-Metrio, A. Y., Ledru, M.-P., Mayle, F. E., Paduano, G. and Valencia, B. G. (2009) Millennial-scale ecological changes in tropical South America since the Last Glacial Maximum. In: Sylvestre, F., Vimeux, F. and Khodri, M. (eds.) Past climate variability in South America and surrounding regions: from the Last Glacial Maximum to the Holocene. Developments in paleoenvironmental research (14). Springer, New York, pp. 283-300. ISBN 9789048126729
• Marchant, R., Cleef, A., Harrison, S.P., Hooghiemstra, H., Markgraf, V., van Boxel, J., Ager, T., Almeida, L., Anderson, R., Baied, C., Behling, H., Berrio, J.C., Burbridge, R., Bjorck, S., Byrne, R., Bush, M., Duivenvoorden, J., Flenley, J., de Oliveira, P., van Geel, B., Graf, K., Gosling, W.D., Harbele, S., van der Hammen, T., Hansen, B., Horn, S., Kuhry, P., Ledru, M.-P., Mayle, F.E., Leyden, B., Lozano-Garcia, S., Melief, A.M., Moreno, P., Moar, N.T., Preito, A., van Reenen, G., Salgado-Labouriau, M., Schabitz, F., Schreve-Brinkman, E.J. and Wille, M. (2009) Pollen-based biome reconstructions for Latin America at 0, 6000 and 18000 radiocarbon years. Climate of the Past, 5. pp. 369-461. ISSN 1814-9324 doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-5-725-2009
• Mayle, F. E., Burn, M. J., Power, M. and Urrego, D. H. (2009) Vegetation and fire at the Last Glacial Maximum in tropical South America. In: Sylvestre, F., Vimeux, F. and Khodri, M. (eds.) Past climate variability in South America and surrounding regions: from the Last Glacial Maximum to the Holocene. Developments in paleoenvironmental research (14). Springer, New York, pp. 89-112. ISBN 9789048126729

2008

• Mayle, F. E. and Power, M. J. (2008) Impact of a drier Early-Mid-Holocene climate upon Amazonian forests. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 363 (1498). pp. 1829-1838. ISSN 0962-8436 doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2007.0019
• Burn, M. J. and Mayle, F. E. (2008) Palynological differentiation between genera of the Moraceae family and implications for Amazonian palaeoecology. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 149 (3-4). pp. 187-201. ISSN 0034-6667 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2007.12.003
• Punyasena, S. W., Mayle, F. E. and McElwain, J. C. (2008) Quantitative estimates of glacial and Holocene temperature and precipitation change in lowland Amazonian Bolivia. Geology, 36 (8). pp. 667-670. ISSN 0091-7613 doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/G24784A.1

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