Frank Mayle

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+44 (0) 118 378 6260
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Professor in Tropical Palaeoecology
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 supervision
Frank is keen to discuss proposals for research within the broad themes of tropical palaeoecology, palaeoclimatology, and past human-environment interactions.
Current projects
- Joe Hirst – The domestication of Amazon rainforests by pre-Columbian societies. ('SCENARIO' NERC DTP award, 2020-2023).
- 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).
- 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 three years
- Smith - Amazonia under Mid-Holocene Drought. ('SCENARIO' NERC DTP award, 2014-2017).
- 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 centres and groups
Research projects
Human-Environment Relationships in pre-Columbian Amazonia (HERCA)
Background
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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Maezumi, S.
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Power, M.
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Smith, R.
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Mclauchlan, K.
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Brunelle, A.
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Carleton, C.
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Roberts, P.
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Kay, A.
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Mayle, F.
ORCID: 0000-0001-9208-0519 (2023) Fire-human-climate interactions in the Bolivian Amazon rainforest ecotone from the last glacial maximum to late Holocene. Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology , 2 ISSN: 2813-432X | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fearc.2023.1208985
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McMichael, C.
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Levis, C.
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Gosling, W.
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Junqueira, A.
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Piperno, D.
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Neves, E.
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Mayle, F.
ORCID: 0000-0001-9208-0519 , Pena-Claros, M. , Bongers, F. (2023) Spatial and temporal abilities of proxies used to detect pre-Columbian Indigenous human activity in Amazonian ecosystems. Quaternary Science Reviews , 321 ISSN: 0277-3791 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108354
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Hill, J.
ORCID: 0000-0002-1728-0913 , Black, S.
ORCID: 0000-0003-1396-4821 , Araujo-Murakami, A. , Boot, R. , Brienen, R. , Feldpausch, T.
ORCID: 0000-0002-6631-7962 , Leigue, J. , Murakami, S. , Monteagudo, A. , Pardo, G. , Peña-Claros, M. , Phillips, O.
ORCID: 0000-0002-8993-6168 , Toledo, M. , Vos, V.
ORCID: 0000-0002-0388-8530 , Zuidema, P. , Mayle, F.
ORCID: 0000-0001-9208-0519 (2023) An assessment of soil phytolith analysis as a palaeoecological tool for identifying pre-Columbian land use in Amazonian rainforests. Quaternary , 6 (2). pp 1. ISSN: 2571-550X | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/quat6020033
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Hill, J.
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Black, S.
ORCID: 0000-0003-1396-4821 , Soto, D. , Chavez, E. , Vos, V. , Mayle, F.
ORCID: 0000-0001-9208-0519 (2023) Differing local-scale responses of Bolivian Amazon forest ecotones to middle Holocene drought based upon multiproxy soil data. Journal of Quaternary Science ISSN: 1099-1417 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3521
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Lombardo, U.
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Arroyo-Kalin, M.
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Schmidt, M.
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Huisman, H.
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Lima, H.
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de Paula Moraes, C.
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Neves, E.
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Clement, C.
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da Fonseca, J.
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de Almeida, F.
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Alho, C.
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Ramsey, C.
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Brown, G.
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Cavallini, M.
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da Costa, M.
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Cunha, L.
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dos Anjos, L.
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Denevan, W.
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Fausto, C.
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Caromano, C.
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Fontana, A.
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Franchetto, B.
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Glaser, B.
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Heckenberger, M.
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Hecht, S.
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Honorato, V.
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Jarosch, K.
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Junquiera, A.
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Kater, T.
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Tamanaha, E.
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Kuyper, T.
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Lehmann, J.
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Madella, M.
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Maezumi, S.
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Cascon, L.
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Mayle, F.
ORCID: 0000-0001-9208-0519 , McKey, D. , Moraes, B. , Morcote-Rios, G. , Barbosa, C. , Magalhaes, M. , Prestes-Carneiro, G. , Pugliese, F. , Pupim, F. , Raczka, M.
ORCID: 0000-0002-6602-8087 , Py-Daniel, A. , Riris, P. , da Rocha, B. , Rodrigues, L. , Rostain, S. , Macedo, R. , Shock, M. , Sprafke, T. , Bassi, F. , Valle, R. , Vidal-Torrado, P. , Villagrán, X. , Watling, J. , Weber, S. , Teixeira, W. (2022) Evidence confirms an anthropic origin of Amazonian Dark Earths. Nature Communications , 13 (1). ISSN: 2041-1723 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31064-2
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da Silva, F.
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Franca, M.
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Cohen, M.
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Pessenda, L.
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Mayle, F.
ORCID: 0000-0001-9208-0519 , Fontes, N. , Lorente, F. , Buso Junior, A. , de C. Piccolo, M. , Bendassolli, J. , Macario, K. , Culligan, N. (2022) Late Holocene mangrove dynamics of the Doce River delta, southeastern Brazil: implications for the understanding of mangrove resilience to sea-level changes and channel dynamics. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology , 600 ISSN: 0031-0182 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2022.111055
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Smith, R.
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Singarayer, J.
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Mayle, F.
ORCID: 0000-0001-9208-0519 (2021) Response of Amazonian forests to mid-Holocene drought: a model-data comparison. Global Change Biology , 28 (1). pp. 201-226. ISSN: 1365-2486 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15929
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Wilson, O.
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Mayle, F.
ORCID: 0000-0001-9208-0519 , Walters, R. , Lingner, D. , Vibrans, A. (2021) Floristic change in Brazil’s southern Atlantic Forest biodiversity hotspot: from the Last Glacial Maximum to the late 21st Century. Quaternary Science Reviews , 264 ISSN: 0277-3791 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107005
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Bush, M.
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Nascimento, M.
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Akesson, C.
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Cardenes-Sandi, G.
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Maezumi, S.
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Behling, H.
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Correa-Metrio, A.
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Church, W.
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Huisman, S.
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Kelly, T.
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Mayle, F.
ORCID: 0000-0001-9208-0519 , McMichael, C. (2021) Widespread reforestation before European influence on Amazonia. Science , 372 (6541). pp. 484-487. ISSN: 1095-9203 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.abf3870
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Loughlin, N.
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Mayle, F.
ORCID: 0000-0001-9208-0519 , Nunez Otano, N. , O'Keefe, J. , Duncan, N. , Walker, J. , Whitney, B. (2021) Insights into past land-use and vegetation change in the Llanos de Moxos (Bolivia) using fungal non-pollen palynomorphs. Journal of Archaeological Science , 130 ISSN: 0305-4403 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2021.105382
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Morrison, K.
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Hammer, E.
ORCID: 0000-0002-7774-1988 , Boles, O. , Madella, M. , Whitehouse, N.
ORCID: 0000-0002-7044-6492 , Gaillard, M. , Bates, J.
ORCID: 0000-0002-7100-4741 , Vander Linden, M. , Merlo, S. , Yao, A.
ORCID: 0000-0002-9438-760X , Popova, L. , Hill, A. , Antolin, F. , Bauer, A. , Biagetti, S.
ORCID: 0000-0003-0936-3070 , Bishop, R. , Buckland, P. , Cruz, P. , Dreslerová, D. , Dusseldorp, G. , Ellis, E.
ORCID: 0000-0002-2006-3362 , Filipovic, D. , Foster, T.
ORCID: 0000-0003-3712-3744 , Hannaford, M. , Harrison, S. , Hazarika, M. , Herold, H.
ORCID: 0000-0001-8478-943X , Hilpert, J. , Kaplan, J. , Kay, A.
ORCID: 0000-0001-8285-1893 , Klein Goldewijk, K. , Kolář, J.
ORCID: 0000-0001-8013-6992 , Kyazike, E.
ORCID: 0000-0003-1503-7220 , Laabs, J. , Lancelotti, C.
ORCID: 0000-0003-1099-7329 , Lane, P. , Lawrence, D.
ORCID: 0000-0001-5613-1243 , Lewis, K. , Lombardo, U. , Lucarini, G.
ORCID: 0000-0003-4722-1065 , Arroyo-Kalin, M. , Marchant, R. , Mayle, F.
ORCID: 0000-0001-9208-0519 , McClatchie, M.
ORCID: 0000-0001-6371-333X , McLeester, M. , Mooney, S.
ORCID: 0000-0003-4449-5060 , Moskal-del Hoyo, M. , Navarrete, V.
ORCID: 0000-0001-9377-298X , Ndiema, E. , Góes Neves, E. , Nowak, M. , Out, W.
ORCID: 0000-0001-7262-5358 , Petrie, C. , Phelps, L.
ORCID: 0000-0002-7385-3907 , Pinke, Z. , Rostain, S.
ORCID: 0000-0003-0985-6406 , Russell, T.
ORCID: 0000-0002-0241-216X , Sluyter, A.
ORCID: 0000-0002-1509-0681 , Styring, A. , Tamanaha, E.
ORCID: 0000-0001-9400-0682 , Thomas, E. , Veerasamy, S.
ORCID: 0000-0003-2374-9690 , Welton, L. , Zanon, M. (2021) Mapping past human land use using archaeological data: a new classification for global land use synthesis and data harmonization. PLOS ONE , 16 (4). pp 0. ISSN: 1932-6203 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0246662
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Smith, R.
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Mayle, F.
ORCID: 0000-0001-9208-0519 , Maezumi, S. , Power, M. (2021) Relating pollen representation to an evolving Amazonian landscape between the last glacial maximum and late Holocene. Quaternary Research , 99 pp. 63-79. ISSN: 1096-0287 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/qua.2020.64
- Francisquini, M. , Lorente, F. , Pessenda, L. , Buso Jr., A. , Mayle, F. , Cohen, M. , Franca, M. , Bendassolli, J. , Giannini, P. , Schiavo, J. , Macario, K. (2020) Cold and humid Atlantic forest during the late glacial, northern Espírito Santo state, southeastern Brazil. Quaternary Science Reviews , 244 ISSN: 0277-3791 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106489
- Montoya, E. , Lombardo, U. , Levis, C. , Aymard, G. , Mayle, F. (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://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31167-4
- Gomes, V. , Mayle, F. , Gosling, W. , Vieira, I. , Salomão, R. , 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://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13833
- Schiavo, J. , Pessenda, L. , Buso Junior, A. , Calegari, M. , Fornari, M. , Secretti, M. , Pereira, M. , Mayle, F. (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 ISSN: 0895-9811 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2019.102435
- Plumpton, H. , Mayle, F. , Whitney, B. (2020) Palaeoecological potential of phytoliths from lake sediment records from the tropical lowlands of Bolivia. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology , 275 ISSN: 0034-6667 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2019.104113
- Plumpton, H. , Mayle, F. , Whitney, B. (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://dx.doi.org/10.1017/qua.2019.55
- Wilson, O. , Walters, R. , Mayle, F. , Lingner, D. , Vibrans, A. (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://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14755
- Plumpton, H. , Whitney, B. , 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://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959683619862021
- de Souza, J. , Robinson, M. , Maezumi, Y. , Capriles, J. , Hoggarth, J. , Lombardo, U. , Novello, V. , Apaestegui, J. , Whitney, B. , Urrego, D. , Alves, D. , Rostain, S. , Power, M. , Mayle, F. , da Cruz Jr, F. , Hooghiemstra, H. , 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://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0924-0
- Cardenas, M. , Wilson, O. , Schorn, L. , Mayle, F. , 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://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2019.03.003
- Buso Junior, A. , Pessenda, L. , Mayle, F. , Lorente, F. , Volkmer-Ribeiro, C. , Schiavo, J. , Pereira, M. , Bendassolli, J. , Macario, K. , Siqueira, G. (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://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2019.02.002
- Lombardo, U. , Ruiz-Perez, J. , Rodriguez, L. , Mestrot, A. , Mayle, F. , Madella, M. , Szidat, S. , 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://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2019.01.008
- Whitney, B. , Smallman, T. , Mitchard, E. , Carson, J. , Mayle, F. , Bunting, M. (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://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959683618810394
- Lorente, F. , Pessenda, L. , Oboh-Ikuenobe, A. , de Fatima Rossetti, D. , Giannini, P. , Cohen, M. , de Oliveira, P. , Mayle, F. , Francisquini, M. , Bendassolli, J. , 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://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2018.04.006
- Watling, J. , Mayle, F. , 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://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2018.05.001
- Robinson, M. , De Souza, J. , Maezumi, S. , Cardenas, M. , Pessenda, L. , Prufer, K. , Corteletti, R. , Scunderlick, D. , Mayle, F. , De Blasis, P. , Iriarte, J. (2018) Uncoupling human and climate drivers of late Holocene vegetation change in southern Brazil. Scientific Reports , 8 ISSN: 2045-2322 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-24429-5
- Maezumi, S. , Whitney, B. , Mayle, F. , de Souza, J. , 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://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2017.11.053
- Smith, R. and Mayle, F. (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://dx.doi.org/10.1017/qua.2017.89
- Gosling, W. , Julier, A. , Adu-Bredu, S. , Djagbletey, G. , Fraser, W. , Jardine, P. , Lomax, B. , Malhi, Y. , Manu, E. , Mayle, F. , 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://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00334-017-0642-y
- Sánchez Goñi, M. , Desprat, S. , Daniau, A. , Bassinot, F. , Polanco-Martínez, J. , Harrison, S. , Allen, J. , Anderson, R. , Behling, H. , Bonnefille, R. , Burjachs, F. , Carrión, J. , Cheddadi, R. , Clark, J. , Combourieu-Nebout, N. , Courtney-Mustaphi, C. , Debusk, G. , Dupont, L. , Finch, J. , Fletcher, W. , Giardini, M. , González, C. , Gosling, W. , Grigg, L. , Grimm, E. , Hayashi, R. , Helmens, K. , Heusser, L. , Hill, T. , Hope, G. , Huntley, B. , Igarashi, Y. , Irino, T. , Jacobs, B. , Jiménez-Moreno, G. , Kawai, S. , Kershaw, P. , Kumon, F. , Lawson, I. , Ledru, M. , Lézine, A. , Liew, P. , Magri, D. , Marchant, R. , Margari, V. , Mayle, F. , McKenzie, M. , Moss, P. , Müller, S. , Müller, U. , Naughton, F. , Newnham, R. , Oba, T. , Pérez-Obiol, R. , Pini, R. , Ravazzi, C. , Roucoux, K. , Rucina, S. , Scott, L. , Takahara, H. , Tzedakis, P. , Urrego, D. , van Geel, B. , Valencia, B. , Vandergoes, M. , Vincens, A. , Whitlock, C. , Willard, D. , 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://dx.doi.org/10.5194/essd-9-679-2017
- Watling, J. , Iriarte, J. , Mayle, F. , Schaan, D. , Pessenda, L. , Loader, N. , Street-Perrott, F. , Dickau, R. , Damasceno, A. , 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://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1614359114
- Robinson, M. , Iriarte, J. , de Souza, J. , Corteletti, R. , Ulguim, P. , Fradley, M. , Cardenas, M. , De Blasis, P. , Mayle, F. , 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://dx.doi.org/10.1017/laq.2017.11
- Iriarte, J. , Smith, R. , de Souza, J. , Mayle, F. , Whitney, B. , Cardenas, M. , Singarayer, J. , Carson, J. , Roy, S. , 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://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959683616678461
- de Souza, J. , Robinson, M. , Corteletti, R. , Cárdenas, M. , Wolf, S. , Iriarte, J. , Mayle, F. , DeBlasis, P. (2016) Understanding the chronology and occupation dynamics of oversized pit houses in the southern Brazilian highlands. PLoS ONE , 11 (7). ISSN: 1932-6203 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0158127
- Power, M. , Whitney, B. , Mayle, F. , Neves, D. , de Boer, E. , Maclean, K. (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). ISSN: 0962-8436 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0165
- Carson, J. , Mayle, F. , Whitney, B. , Iriarte, J. , Soto, J. (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://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jqs.2835
- Watling, J. , Iriarte, J. , Whitney, B. , Consuelo, E. , Mayle, F. , Castro, W. , Schaan, D. , Feldpausch, T. (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://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2015.12.002
- Matthews-Bird, F. , Gosling, W. , Coe, A. , Bush, M. , Mayle, F. , Axford, Y. , Brooks, S. (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://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.1833
- Fornace, K. , Whitney, B. , Galy, V. , Hughen, K. , Mayle, F. (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://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2016.01.007
- Flantua, S. , Hooghiemstra, H. , Vuille, M. , Behling, H. , Carson, J. , Gosling, W. , Hoyos, I. , Ledru, M. , Montoya, E. , Mayle, F. , Maldonado, A. , Rull, V. , Tonello, M. , Whitney, B. , 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://dx.doi.org/10.5194/cp-12-483-2016
- Cárdenas, M. , Robinson, M. , Corteletti, R. , Ulguim, P. , Gregório de Souza, J. , Iriarte, J. , Mayle, F. , Scunderlick Eloy de Farias, D. , DeBlasis, P. (2015) Integrating archaeology and palaeoecology to understand Jê landscapes in southern Brazil. Antiquity Project Gallery , 348
- Maezumi, S. , Power, M. , Mayle, F. , McLauchlan, K. , 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://dx.doi.org/10.5194/cp-11-835-2015
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- Bush, M. , de Oliveira, P. , Raczka, M. , Gosling, W. , Mayle, F. , McMichael, C. , Urrego, D. (2014) Paleocliates of Amazonia: An Ice-Age view.. In: de Souza Carvalho, I. , Garcia, M. , Strohschoen, O. , Lana, C. , (eds.) Paleontologia: Cenarios de Vida - Paleoclimas. , 5. Interciencia , Rio de Janeiro. pp. 353-368. ISBN: 9788571933439
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- Carson, J. , Whitney, B. , Mayle, F. , Iriarte, J. , Prümers, H. , Soto, J. , 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). pp. E3833-E3833. ISSN: 0027-8424 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1413867111
- Metcalfe, S. , Whitney, B. , Fitzpatrick, K. , Mayle, F. , Loader, N. , Street-Perrott, A. , Mann, D. (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://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jqs.2702
- Carson, J. , Whitney, B. , Mayle, F. , Iriarte, J. , Prümers, H. , Soto, J. , 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://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1321770111
- Whitney, B. , Dickau, R. , Mayle, F. , Walker, J. , Soto, J. , 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://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959683613517401
- Whitney, B. , Mayle, F. , Burn, M. , Guillen, R. , Chavez, E. , Pennington, R. (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://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00334-013-0395-1
- Whitney, B. , Dickau, R. , Mayle, F. , Soto, J. , 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://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.yqres.2013.06.005
- Mayle, F. 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://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2012.08.038
- Power, M. , Mayle, F. , Bartlein, P. , Marlon, J. , Anderson, R. , Behling, H. , Brown, K. , Carcaillet, C. , Colombaroli, D. , Gavin, D. , Hallett, D. , Horn, S. , Kennedy, L. , Lane, C. , Long, C. , Moreno, P. , Paitre, C. , Robinson, G. , Taylor, Z. , Walsh, M. (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://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959683612450196
- Dickau, R. , Whitney, B. , Iriarte, J. , Mayle, F. , Soto, J. , Metcalfe, P. , Street-Perrott, F. , Loader, N. , Ficken, K. , Killeen, T. (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://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2013.01.004
- Mayle, F. and Whitney, B. (2012) Long-term perspectives on tropical forest-savanna dynamics in lowland Bolivia from the last ice age until the present. In: Myster, R. , (eds.) Ecotones between forest and grassland. Springer , New York. pp. 189-207. ISBN: 9781461437963
- Dickau, R. , Bruno, M. , Iriarte, J. , Prumers, H. , Betancourt, C. , Holst, I. , Mayle, F. (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://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2011.09.021
- Iriarte, J. , Power, M. , Rostain, S. , Mayle, F. , Jones, H. , Watling, J. , Whitney, B. , McKey, D. (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://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1201461109
- 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://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10933-012-9583-8
- Whitney, B. , Rushton, E. , Carson, J. , Iriarte, J. , Mayle, F. (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://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959683612441842
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- Mayle, F. (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://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gh-66-202-2011
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- Gosling, W. , Mayle, F. , Tate, N. , Killeen, T. (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://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2008.06.007
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