Most cited papers in Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory
What are the most cited papers in Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory?
The most cited paper in Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory is "Ameliorating physical and chemical properties of highly weathered soils in the tropics with charcoal - a review" (Bruno Glaser, Johannes C. Lehmann, Wolfgang Zech, 2002), with 2,893 citations. Next come "Black Carbon Increases Cation Exchange Capacity in Soils" (2,211) and "Nutrient availability and leaching in an archaeological Anthrosol and a Ferralsol of the Central Amazon basin: fertilizer, manure and charcoal amendments" (1,907).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 228 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ameliorating physical and chemical properties of highly weathered soils in the tropics with charcoal - a review Bruno Glaser, Johannes C. Lehmann, Wolfgang Zech · Biology and Fertility of Soils | Jun 2002 | 2,893 |
| 2 | Black Carbon Increases Cation Exchange Capacity in Soils Biqing Liang, Johannes C. Lehmann, Dawit Solomon et al. · Soil Science Society of America Journal | 22 Aug 2006 | 2,211 |
| 3 | Nutrient availability and leaching in an archaeological Anthrosol and a Ferralsol of the Central Amazon basin: fertilizer, manure and charcoal amendments Johannes C. Lehmann, José Pereira da Silva, Christoph Steiner et al. · Plant and Soil | Feb 2003 | 1,907 |
| 4 | The Pristine Myth: The Landscape of the Americas in 1492 William M. Denevan · Annals of the Association of American Geographers | Sep 1992 | 1,468 |
| 5 | Neotropical secondary forest succession: changes in structural and functional characteristics Manuel R. Guariguata, Rebecca Ostertag · Forest Ecology and Management | Jul 2001 | 1,390 |
| 6 | Long term effects of manure, charcoal and mineral fertilization on crop production and fertility on a highly weathered Central Amazonian upland soil Christoph Steiner, Wenceslau Geraldes Teixeira, Johannes C. Lehmann et al. · Plant and Soil | Feb 2007 | 1,323 |
| 7 | The Importance of Land-Use Legacies to Ecology and Conservation David R. Foster, Frederick J. Swanson, John D. Aber et al. · BioScience | 2003 | 1,213 |
| 8 | The 'Terra Preta' phenomenon: a model for sustainable agriculture in the humid tropics Bruno Glaser, Ludwig Haumaier, Georg Guggenberger et al. · Die Naturwissenschaften | 2001 | 1,112 |
| 9 | The role of soil organic matter in sustaining soil fertility H. Tiessen, Elvira Cuevas, Prudencio Chacón · Nature | Oct 1994 | 964 |
| 10 | Persistent effects of pre-Columbian plant domestication on Amazonian forest composition Carolina Levis et al. · Science | 2 Mar 2017 | 689 |
| 11 | The canopy effect, carbon isotope ratios and foodwebs in amazonia Nikolaas J. van der Merwe, Ernesto Medina · Journal of Archaeological Science | May 1991 | 644 |
| 12 | The Fishes and the Forest: Explorations in Amazonian Natural History. Ghillean Tolmie Prance, Michael Goulding · Brittonia | Apr 1981 | 631 |
| 13 | State of the scientific knowledge on properties and genesis of Anthropogenic Dark Earths in Central Amazonia (terra preta de Índio) Bruno Glaser, Jago Jonathan Birk · Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta | 2 Mar 2012 | 606 |
| 14 | Paleoindian Cave Dwellers in the Amazon: The Peopling of the Americas Anna Curtenius Roosevelt, Marcondes Lima da Costa, Christiane Lopes Machado et al. · Science | 19 Apr 1996 | 604 |
| 15 | Os pronomes cosmológicos e o perspectivismo ameríndio Eduardo Viveiros de Castro · Mana | Oct 1996 | 582 |
| 16 | The domestication of Amazonia before European conquest Charles Roland Clement, William M. Denevan, Michael Heckenberger et al. · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences | 23 Jul 2015 | 569 |
| 17 | Amazon Basin: A System in Equilibrium Enéas Salati, Peter B. Vose · Science | 13 Jul 1984 | 544 |
| 18 | The Research Program of Historical Ecology William Balée · Annual Review of Anthropology | 21 Jul 2006 | 542 |
| 19 | Soils of Amazonia with particular reference to the RAINFOR sites Carlos Alberto Quesada, Jon Lloyd, Liana O. Anderson et al. · Biogeosciences | Jun 2011 | 539 |
| 20 | Belowground cycling of carbon in forests and pastures of eastern Amazonia Susan Trumbore, Eric A. Davidson, Plínio Barbosa de Camargo et al. · Global Biogeochemical Cycles | Dec 1995 | 534 |
| 21 | Earth system impacts of the European arrival and Great Dying in the Americas after 1492 Alexander Koch, Chris Brierley, Mark Maslin et al. · Quaternary Science Reviews | 26 Jan 2019 | 530 |
| 22 | In Amazonia: A Natural History Michael Brown · Tipití Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America | Jun 2003 | 530 |
| 23 | Black carbon in density fractions of anthropogenic soils of the Brazilian Amazon region Bruno Glaser, Eugene V. Balashov, Ludwig Haumaier et al. · Organic Geochemistry | Jul 2000 | 528 |
| 24 | Indigenous management of tropical forest ecosystems: the case of the Kayap� indians of the Brazilian Amazon Darrell Addison Posey · Agroforestry Systems | 1985 | 522 |
| 25 | Millennial-Scale Dynamics of Southern Amazonian Rain Forests Francis Edward Mayle, R. Burbridge, Timothy J. Killeen · Science | 22 Dec 2000 | 518 |
| 26 | Amazonia 1492: Pristine Forest or Cultural Parkland? Michael Heckenberger, Afukaka Kuikuro, Urissap’a Tabata Kuikuro et al. · Science | 18 Sep 2003 | 507 |
| 27 | 1492 and the loss of amazonian crop genetic resources. I. The relation between domestication and human population decline Charles Roland Clement · Economic Botany | Apr 1999 | 489 |
| 28 | Prehistorically modified soils of central Amazonia: a model for sustainable agriculture in the twenty-first century Bruno Glaser · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences | 20 Dec 2006 | 465 |
| 29 | KINCENTRIC ECOLOGY: INDIGENOUS PERCEPTIONS OF THE HUMAN–NATURE RELATIONSHIP E. T. Salmon · Ecological Applications | Oct 2000 | 453 |
| 30 | Anthracology and taphonomy, from wood gathering to charcoal analysis. A review of the taphonomic processes modifying charcoal assemblages, in archaeological contexts Isabelle Théry‐Parisot, Lucie Chabal, Julia Chrzavzez · Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology | 14 Oct 2009 | 445 |
| 31 | Biochar: Potential for countering land degradation and for improving agriculture Chris J. Barrow · Applied Geography | 5 Nov 2011 | 440 |
| 32 | Convergent evolution and parallelism in plant domestication revealed by an expanding archaeological record Dorian Q. Fuller, Tim P. Denham, Manuel Arroyo‐Kalin et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 21 Apr 2014 | 436 |
| 33 | Origin and Domestication of Native Amazonian Crops Charles Roland Clement, Michelly de Cristo-Araújo, Géo Coppens D'Eeckenbrugge et al. · Diversity | 6 Jan 2010 | 436 |
| 34 | Starch Fossils and the Domestication and Dispersal of Chili Peppers ( Capsicum spp. L.) in the Americas Linda Perry, Ruth E. Dickau, Sonia Zarrillo et al. · Science | 15 Feb 2007 | 422 |
| 35 | Re-examining hypotheses concerning the use and knowledge of medicinal plants: a study in the Caatinga vegetation of NE Brazil Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque · Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine | 26 Jul 2006 | 388 |
| 36 | ANTHROSOLS AND HUMAN CARRYING CAPACITY IN AMAZONIA∗ Nigel J. H. Smith · Annals of the Association of American Geographers | Dec 1980 | 379 |
| 37 | Amazon Rain-Forest Fires Robert L. Sanford, Juan F. Saldarriaga, Kathleen Clark et al. · Science | 4 Jan 1985 | 377 |
| 38 | Advances in Historical Ecology N. Bukeavich · ISLE Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment | Jul 2000 | 376 |
| 39 | Stability of biomass-derived black carbon in soils Biqing Liang, Johannes C. Lehmann, Dawit Solomon et al. · Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta | 10 Oct 2008 | 370 |
| 40 | Ecosystem services or services to ecosystems? Valuing cultivation and reciprocal relationships between humans and ecosystems Claudia Comberti, Thomas F. Thornton, Victoria Wyllie de Echeverria et al. · Global Environmental Change | Sep 2015 | 368 |
| 41 | Amazonia during the last glacial T. van der Hammen, Maria Lúcia Absy · Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology | Jun 1994 | 357 |
| 42 | Pre-Columbian Urbanism, Anthropogenic Landscapes, and the Future of the Amazon Michael Heckenberger, Judith C. Russell, Carlos Fausto et al. · Science | 29 Aug 2008 | 357 |
| 43 | The Mid-Continental Journal Of Archaeology David S. Brose · Plains Anthropologist | Feb 1976 | 351 |
| 44 | Starch grains reveal early root crop horticulture in the Panamanian tropical forest Dolores R. Piperno, Anthony J. Ranere, Irene Holst et al. · Nature | Oct 2000 | 348 |
| 45 | Demographic Threats to the Sustainability of Brazil Nut Exploitation Carlos A. Peres, Cláudia Baider, Pieter A. Zuidema et al. · Science | 18 Dec 2003 | 343 |
| 46 | How "Virgin" Is Virgin Rainforest? Katherine J. Willis, Lindsey Gillson, Terry M. Brncic · Science | 15 Apr 2004 | 343 |
| 47 | How People Domesticated Amazonian Forests Carolina Levis, Bernardo M. Flores, Priscila Ambrósio Moreira et al. · Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution | 17 Jan 2018 | 340 |
| 48 | Indigenous knowledge and the shackles of wilderness Michael‐Shawn Fletcher, Rebecca Jenner Hamilton, Wolfram Dressler et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 27 Sep 2021 | 324 |
| 49 | Ancient trees in Amazonia Jeffrey Quintin Chambers, Níro Higuchi, Joshua P. Schimel · Nature | 1998 | 322 |
| 50 | Revisiting the historical distribution of Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests: new insights based on palaeodistribution modelling and palynological evidencegeb Fernanda P. Werneck, Gabriel C. Costa, Guarino Rinaldi Colli et al. · Global Ecology and Biogeography | 6 Oct 2010 | 321 |
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