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Fire, ice, and invasionContact: Annie Drinkard
annie@esa.org
Ecological Society of America
Fire, ice, and invasion
Unraveling the past to understand our future
| Quote: | The November 2007 Special Issue of Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment focuses on paleoecology, which uses fossilized remains and soil and sediment cores to reconstruct past ecosystems.
Some scientists argue that the pre-Columbian Amazon was pristine, with indigenous people living in harmony with nature. Others suggest that the Amazon is a “manufactured” landscape, altered by and disturbed by human activities even before the arrival of Europeans. In “Amazonian exploitation revisited: ecological asymmetry and the policy pendulum,” Mark Bush (Florida Institute of Technology) and Miles Silman (Wake Forest University) discuss this debate. |
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-11/esoa-fia111407.php
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