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Amazon ecology: Footprints in the forest

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Researchers are tracking just how much impact ancient peoples had on the Amazon.

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Tollefson, J. Amazon ecology: Footprints in the forest. Nature 502, 160–162 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/502160a

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