Dr. Yoshi Maezumi (she|her|hers)

Dr S. Yoshi Maezumi is, an Archaeologist, Paleoecologist, National Geographic Explorer, and Former Marie Curie Fellow specializing in past human-environment interactions in the tropics. She has an double-bachelors Degree in Anthropological Archaeology and Religious Studies from the University of California San Diego, a Masters Degree in Analytical Archaeology from California State University Long Beach, and a Doctorate in Physical Geography with a concentration in Paleoecology from the University of Utah, USA. After completing her PhD reconstructing past ecosystems in the Bolivian Amazon, she held a three-year post-doctoral fellowship in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Exeter, UK focused on the legacy of ancient human land use on modern forests in the Amazon. The results of Maezumi’s post-doctoral research were published in high-impact journals including Nature Plants, Science, Nature Ecology and Evolution, and Science Advances.

Following her post-doctoral research, she held one-year Lectureship position teaching on Climate Change in the Tropics in the Department of Geography and Geology at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica. During this time she was awarded a National Geographic Early Career Research Grant for her project: Jamaica a Last Island Frontier. This research implements an interdisciplinary approach combining archaeology, archaeobotany, paleoecology, and paleoclimatology to examine the influence of human colonization on island biogeography and fire activity in Jamaica. She was awarded a British Ecological Society Grant to expand here research in the Caribbean with a new project examining ancient resource management in Curaçao. Maezumi was then awarded a 2-year Marie Curie Research Fellowship at the Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics at the University of Amsterdam. Her project FIRE: Fire Intensity in Rainforest Ecotones, developed a state-of-the-art methodology to reconstruct past fire intensity. 

As a Senior Scientist in the Department of the Coevolution of Land Use and Urbanisation, Maezumi implements her multidisciplinary background in Archaeology, Archaeobotany, Palaeoecology, and Palaeoclimatology to examine the legacies of past human-environment interactions in tropical regions around the globe. You can follow Maezumi’s ongoing research projects and fieldwork adventures (including finding scorpions under her pillow in the Caribbean) via:

Website: http://yoshimaezumi.wixsite.com/paleoecology

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yoshi_maezumi

Publications

Roberts, P., Carleton, W.C., Los, S., Maezumi, S.Y. (2025) ‘Wildland-urban interfaces’ from an archaeological perspective. Journal of Urban Archaeology.

Kistler, L., de Oliveira Freitas, F., Gutaker, R., Maezumi, S.Y., Ramos-Madrigal, J., Simon, M.F., 
Mendoza Flores, J.M., Drovetski, S. V., Loiselle, H., de Oliveira, E., J., Vieira, E.A., Branco Carvalho, L.J.C., Ellis, M., Lin, A.T., Liu, H-L., Miller, R., Przelomska, N.A.S., Ratan, A., Wales, N., 
Wann, K., Zhang, S., García, M., Valenzuela, D., Rothhammer, F., Calogero Santoro, C., Domic, A., Capriles, J., Allaby, R. (2025) Historic manioc genomes reveal the traditional maintenance of diversity under long-term clonal cultivation. Science.

Mauceri, A.A., Konecky, B.L., Hutchings, J.A., Gosling, W.D., Iriarte, J., Maezumi, S.Y. Hydroclimate and vegetation changes in eastern Amazonia since the mid-Holocene. (in press). The Holocene.
Watling, J., Maezumi, S.Y., Shock, M.P., Iriarte, J. (2024) O que os dados paleoecológicos nos dizem sobre o Antropoceno na Amazônia? Dossiê do Antropoceno. Estudos Avançados.

Maezumi, S. Y., Fletcher, M-S., Safford, H., Roberts, P. Fighting with fire: Historical ecology and community-based approaches to fire management, stewardship, and ecosystem resilience. (2024). One Earth. 

Zuccarelli Freire, V., Ziegler, M.J., Caetano-Andrade, V., Iminjili, V., Lellau, R., Rudd, R. C., Stokes, F., Viegas, D. H., Antonosyan, M., Jha, D.K., Jha, G., S. Y. Maezumi, Winkelmann, R., Roberts, P., Furquim, L. Addressing the Anthropocene from the Global South: Integrating Paleoecology, Archaeology and Traditional Knowledge for COP Engagement. (2024) Frontiers in Earth Science.
 
Roberts, P., Caetano-Andrade, V. L., Fisher, M., Hamilton, R., Rudd, R.R., Stokes, F., Amano, N., Dugmore, A., Findley, D.M., Fisher, M., Furquim, L.P., Fletcher, M-S., Haberle, S., Hambrecht, G., Heddell-Stevens, P., Iminjili, V., Jha, D., Jha, G., Kinyanjui, R., Maezumi, S.Y., Morrison, K., Renn, J., Stevenson, J., Winkelmann, R., Ziegler, M., Zuccarelli, V., Scarborough, V., White, S., Degroot,D., Green, A., Isendahl, C. Uncovering the multi-biome environmental and Earth system legacies of past human societies. (2024) Annual Review of Environment and Resources.

Riris, P., Silva, F., Crema, E., Palmisano, A., Robinson, E., Siegel, P., French, J.C., Jørgensen, E.K., Maezumi, S.Y., Solheim, S., Bates, J., Davies, B., Oh, Y., Ren, X. (2024) Frequent disturbances enhance the resistance and recovery of past human populations. Nature. 

Kraan, C., Kappers, M., Lowe, K.M., Maezumi, S.Y., Giovas, C.M. (2024) Radiocarbon dates from Curaçao’s oldest Archaic site extend earliest island settlement to ca. 5700 cal BP. The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology. 

Minatre, K.L., Arienzo, M.M., Moosmüller, H., Maezumi, S.Y. Charcoal Analysis for Temperature Reconstruction with Infrared Spectroscopy. (2024) Frontiers in Earth Science. 

Roberts, P., Carleton, W. C., Amano, N., Findley, M., Hamilton, R., Maezumi, S.Y., Winkelmann, R., Laubichler, M.D., Renn, J. (2024) Using urban pasts to speak to urban presents in the Anthropocene. Nature Cities. 

David, B., M.-S. Fletcher, S. Connor, V.R. Pullin, J. Birkett-Rees, J.-J. Delannoy, M. Miriani, A. Romano, Maezumi, S.Y. (2024) Cultural Burning. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Connor, S., Fletcher, M-S., Mariani, M., Maezumi, S.Y. (2024) Cultural burning in the Quaternary record—some scientific approaches, methods and applications. In B. David (Ed.)  Cultural Burning. Cambridge University Press. 

Maezumi, S.Y., Power, M.J., Smith, R.J., Mclauchlan, K.K., Brunelle, A.R., Carleton, C., Roberts, P., Kay, A.U., Mayle, F.E. (2023) Fire-human-climate interactions in the Bolivian amazon rainforest ecotone from the Last Glacial Maximum to late Holocene. Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology.  

Zarza, M.M., Benito, X., Flores, C., Mandal, S.K., Maldonado, A., Maezumi, S. Y. (2023) Integration of proxies in human-environmental systems: paleoecology, paleoclimatology, and archeology. PAGES Magazine.

Sayedi, S.S., Abbott, B., Vannière, B., Leys, B., Colombaroli, D., Gil-Romera, G., Słowiński, M., Aleman, J., Blarquez, O., Feurdean, A., Brown, K., Aakala, T., Alenius, T., Allen, K., Andric, M., Bergeron, Y., Biagioni, S., Bradshaw, R., Bremond, L., Brisset, E., Brooks, J., Brugger, S.O., Brussel, T., Cadd, H., Cagliero, E., Carcaillet, C., Carter, V., Catry, F.X., Champreux, A., Chaste, E., Chavardès, R.D., Chipman, M., Conedera, M., Connor, S., Constantine, M., Mustaphi, C.C., Dabengwa, A., Daniels, W., De Boer, E., Dietze, E., Estrany, J., Fernandes, P., Finsinger, W., Flantua, S.G.A., Fox-Hughes, P., Gaboriau, D.M., Gayo, E.M., Girardin, M.P., Glenn, J., Glückler, R., González-Arango, C., Groves, M., Hamilton, D., Hamilton, R.J., Hantson, S., Hapsari, K.A., Hardiman, M., Hawthorne, D., Hoffman, K., Inoue, J., Karp, A.T., Krebs, P., Kulkarni, C., Kuosmanen, N., Lacourse, T., Ledru, M-P., Lestienne, M., Long, C., López-Sáez, J.A., Loughlin, N., Niklasson, M., Madrigal, J., Maezumi, S.Y., Marcisz, K., Mariani, M., McWethy, D., Meyer, G., Molinari, C., Montoya, E., Mooney, S., Morales-Molino, C., Morris, J., Moss, P., Oliveras, I., Miguel Pereira, J., Pezzatti, G.B., Pickarski, N., Pini, R., Rehn, E., Remy, C.C., Revelles, J., Rius, D., Robin, V., Ruan, Y., Rudaya, N., Russell-Smith, J., Seppä, H., Shumilovskikh, L., Sommers, W.T., Tavşanoğlu, C., Umbanhowar, C., Urquiaga, E., Urrego, D.H., Vachula, R., Wallenius, T.H., You, C., Daniau, A-L. (2023) Assessing changes in global fire regimes. Fire Ecology.

Peripato, V., Levis, C., Moreira, G.A., Gamerman, D., ter Steege, H., Pitman, N.C.A., de Souza, J.G., Iriarte, J., Robinson, M., Junqueira, A.B., Trindade, T.B., de Almeida, F.O., Moraes, C. de P., Lombardo, U., Tamanaha, E.K., Maezumi, S.Y., Ometto, J.P.H.B., Braga, J.R.G., Campanharo, W.A., Cassol, H.L.G., Leal, P.R., de Assis, M.L.R., da Silva, A.M., Phillips, O.L., Costa, F.R.C., Flores, B.M., Hoffman, B., Henkel, T.W., Umaña, M.N., Magnusson, W.E., Valderrama Sandoval, E.H., Barlow, J., Milliken, W., Lopes, M.A., Simon, M.F., van Andel, T.R., Laurance, S.G.W., Laurance, W.F., Torres-Lezama, A., Assis, R.L., Molino, J.-F., Mestre, M., Hamblin, M., Coelho, L. de S., Lima Filho, D. de A., Wittmann, F., Salomão, R.P., Amaral, I.L., Guevara, J.E., de Almeida Matos, F.D., Castilho, C.V., Carim, M. de J.V., Cárdenas López, D., Sabatier, D., Irume, M.V., Martins, M.P., Guimarães, J.R. da S., Bánki, O.S., Piedade, M.T.F., Ramos, J.F., Luize, B.G., Novo, E.M.M. de L., Núñez Vargas, P., Silva, T.S.F., Venticinque, E.M., Manzatto, A.G., Reis, N.F.C., Terborgh, J., Casula, K.R., Demarchi, L.O., Honorio Coronado, E.N., Monteagudo Mendoza, A., Montero, J.C., Schöngart, J., Feldpausch, T.R., Quaresma, A.C., Aymard C., G.A., Baraloto, C., Castaño Arboleda, N., Engel, J., Petronelli, P., Zartman, C.E., Killeen, T.J., Marimon, B.S., Marimon-Junior, B.H., Schietti, J., Sousa, T.R., Vasquez, R., Rincón, L.M., Berenguer, E., Ferreira, J., Mostacedo, B., do Amaral, D.D., Castellanos, H., de Medeiros, M.B., Andrade, A., Camargo, J.L., Farias, E. de S., Magalhães, J.L.L., Mendonça Nascimento, H.E., de Queiroz, H.L., Brienen, R., Cardenas Revilla, J.D., Stevenson, P.R., Araujo-Murakami, A., Barçante Ladvocat Cintra, B., Feitosa, Y.O., Barbosa, F.R., Carpanedo, R. de S., Duivenvoorden, J.F., de Noronha, J. da C., Rodrigues, D. de J., Mogollón, H.F., Ferreira, L.V., Householder, J.E., Lozada, J.R., Comiskey, J.A., Draper, F.C., de Toledo, J.J., Damasco, G., Dávila, N., García-Villacorta, R., Lopes, A., Cornejo Valverde, F., Alonso, A., Dallmeier, F., Gomes, V.H.F., Jimenez, E.M., Neill, D., Peñuela Mora, M.C., de Aguiar, D.P.P., Arroyo, L., Antunes Carvalho, F., Coelho de Souza, F., Feeley, K.J., Gribel, R., Pansonato, M.P., Ríos Paredes, M., Brasil da Silva, I., Ferreira, M.J., Fine, P.V.A., Fonty, É., Guedes, M.C., Licona, J.C., Pennington, T., Peres, C.A., Villa Zegarra, B.E., Parada, G.A., Pardo Molina, G., Vos, V.A., Cerón, C., Maas, P., Silveira, M., Stropp, J., Thomas, R., Baker, T.R., Daly, D., Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, I., Vieira, I.C.G., Weiss Albuquerque, B., Fuentes, A., Klitgaard, B., Marcelo-Peña, J.L., Silman, M.R., Tello, J.S., Vriesendorp, C., Chave, J., Di Fiore, A., Hilário, R.R., Phillips, J.F., Rivas-Torres, G., von Hildebrand, P., Pereira, L. de O., Barbosa, E.M., de Matos Bonates, L.C., Doza, H.P.D., Zárate Gómez, R., Gallardo Gonzales, G.P., Gonzales, T., Malhi, Y., de Andrade Miranda, I.P., Mozombite Pinto, L.F., Prieto, A., Rudas, A., Ruschel, A.R., Silva, N., Vela, C.I.A., Zent, E.L., Zent, S., Cano, A., Carrero Márquez, Y.A., Correa, D.F., Costa, J.B.P., Galbraith, D., Holmgren, M., Kalamandeen, M., Lobo, G., Nascimento, M.T., Oliveira, A.A., Ramirez-Angulo, H., Rocha, M., Scudeller, V.V., Sierra, R., Tirado, M., van der Heijden, G., Vilanova Torre, E., Ahuite Reategui, M.A., Baider, C., Balslev, H., Cárdenas, S., Casas, L.F., Farfan-Rios, W., Ferreira, C., Linares-Palomino, R., Mendoza, C., Mesones, I., Urrego Giraldo, L.E., Villarroel, D., Zagt, R., Alexiades, M.N., de Oliveira, E.A., Garcia-Cabrera, K., Hernandez, L., Palacios Cuenca, W., Pansini, S., Pauletto, D., Ramirez Arevalo, F., Sampaio, A.F., Valenzuela Gamarra, L., Aragão, L.E.O.C. 2023. More than 10,000 pre-Columbian earthworks are still hidden throughout Amazonia. Science. DOI: 10.1126/science.ade2541. 
Nascimento, M., McMichael, C.N.H., Kleijwegt, Z., Akesson, C., Gredal, C., Maezumi, S.Y., Bush, M.B., Gosling, W.D. (2023) Fire in the clouds: How changing land use shaped an Andean biodiversity hotspot. Quaternary Science Reviews. DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108278. 
Nascimento, M. N., Beltran, J., Bressers, C., J. van Delft, Vermeulen, J., de Ron, S., Bruijn, A., Raczka, M. F., Maezumi, S.Y., Gosling, W.D., Bush, M.B., McMichael, C. N. H. (2023) Charcoal abundance measurements are affected by freeze-drying. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2023.111790. 

van der Sande, M., Bush, M., Akesson, C., Berrio, J-C., Correa-Metrio, A., Flantua, S., Hooghiemstra, H., Maezumi, S. Y., McMichael, C., Montoya, Encarni, Mosblech, N., Nascimento, M., Pena Claros, M., Poorter, L., Raczka, M., Gosling, W. (2023) Warming, drought and disturbances lead to shifts in functional composition, a millennial-scale analysis for Amazonian and Andean sites. Global Change Biology. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.16818. 

Laming, A., Fletcher, M-S, Romano, A., Mullett, R. on behalf of Gunaikurnai Land and Waters Corporation, Connor, S., Mariani, M., Maezumi S.Y., Gadd, P.S. (2022) The Curse of Conservation: Empirical Evidence Demonstrating That Changes in Land-Use Legislation Drove Catastrophic Bushfires in Southeast Australia. Fire. DOI:  10.3390/fire5060175.

Silva, F., Coward, F., Davies, K., Elliott, S., Jenkins, E., Newton, A.C., Riris, P., Vander Linden, M., Bates, J., Cantarello, E., Contreras, D.A., Crabtree, S.A., Crema, E.R., Edwards, M., Filatova, T., Fitzhugh, B., Fluck, H., Freeman, J., Klein Goldewijk, K., Krzyzanska, M., Lawrence, D., Mackay, H., Madella, M., Maezumi, S.Y., Marchant, R., Monsarrat, S., Morrison, K.D., Rabett, R., Roberts, P., Saqalli, M., Stafford, R., Svenning, J.-C., Whithouse, N.J., Williams, A. (2022) Developing Transdisciplinary Approaches to Sustainability Challenges: The Need to Model Socio-Environmental Systems in the Longue Durée. Sustainability. DOI: 10.3390/su141610234. 

Elliott, S., Maezumi, S.Y., Robinson, M., Burn, M., Gosling, W.D., Mickleburgh, H.L., Walters, S. & Beier, Z.J.M. (2022) The legacy of 1300 years of land use in Jamaica. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology. DOI: 10.1080/15564894.2022.2078448.

Mariani, M., Connor, S., M.-S. Fletcher, M-S., Romano, A., Maezumi, S.Y. (2022). Higher fuel loads and more fire follow removal of Indigenous cultural burning across southeast Australia. PAGES Magazine. DOI: 10.22498/pages.30.1.34.

Snitker, G., Roos, C.I., Sullivan, A.P., Maezumi, S.Y., Bird, D.W., Michael R. Coughlan, M.R., Derr, K.M., Gassaway, L., Klimaszewski-Patterson, A., Loehman, R.A. (2022). A new collaborative agenda for archaeology and fire science. Nature Ecology and Evolution.

Umberto, L. l Arroyo-Kalin, M., Huisman, H., Geraldes Teixeira, W., Clement, C.R., Francisco Brazão Vieira Alho, C., Almeida, F., Helena Cunha Anjos, L., Bronk Ramsey, C., Brown G., Costa, M., Cunha, L., Denevan, W.M., Fontana, A., Glaser, B., Hecht, S., Jarosch, K.A., Braga, Junqueira, A. B., Kater, T., Kuyper, T.W., Leh,ann, J., Lima, H.P.,  Macedo, R. S., Madella, M., Maezumi, S.Y., Mayle,. F.E., McKey, D., de Paula Moraes, C., Morcote-Rios, G., Neves, E., Pugliese, F., Pupim, F., Raczka, M.F., Py-Daniel, A.R., Riris, P., Rodrigues, L., Rostain, S. Schmidt, M., Shock, M.P., Sprafke, T., Tamanaha, E.K., Vidal-Torrado, P., Villagran, X.S., Watling, J., Weber, S.L. (2022). Evidence confirms an anthropic origin of Amazonian Dark Earths (Comment to Silva L.C.R. et al. 2021). Nature Communications. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-31064-2.

Scerri, E.M.L, Roberts, P., Maezumi, S.Y., Malhi, Y. (2022) Tropical Forests in the Deep Human Past. Philosophical Transactions B. DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2020.0500.

Maezumi, S.Y., Elliott, S., Robinson, M., Jaimes Betancourt, C., De Souza, J.G., Alves, D., Grosvenor, M., Hilbert, L., Urrego, D., Gosling, W.D., Iriarte, J. (2022). Legacies of Indigenous Land use and Cultural Burning in the Bolivian Amazon. Philosophical Transactions B. DOI:  10.1098/rstb.2020.0499.
Della Libera, M.E., Novello, V.E., Cruz, F.W., Orrison, R., Vuille, M., Maezumi, S.Y., de Souza, J., Rodrigues, J.C., Pereira, J. L., Campos, S., Ampuero, A., Utida, G., Stríkis, N. M., Stumpf, C. F., Azevedo, V., Zhang, H., Edwards, R.L., Cheng, H. (2022). Paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental changes in Amazonian lowlands over the last three millennia. Quaternary Science Reviews. DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107383.

Gosling, W.D., Maezumi, S.Y., Heijink, B.M., Nascimento, M., Raczka, M.F., van der Sande, M.T., Bush, M .B., McMichael, C.N.H. (2021). Scarce fire activity in north and north-western Amazonian forests during the last 10,000 years. Plant Ecology and Diversity. DOI: 10.1080/17550874.2021.2008040.
Fletcher, M.S., Romano, A., Connor, S., Mariana, M., Maezumi, S.Y. (2021). Catastrophic bushfires, Indigenous fire knowledge and reframing science in southeast Australia. Fire. DOI: 10.3390/fire4030061. 

Maezumi, S.Y., Gosling, W.D., Kirschner, J., Chevalier, M., Cornelissen, H.L., Heinecke, T., McMichael, C.N.H. (2021). A modern analogue matching approach to characterise fire temperatures and plant species from charcoal. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110580.  

Kukla, T., Ahlström, A., Maezumi, S.Y., Chevalier, M., Lu, Z., Chamberlain, C. P. (2021). Amazon Resilience to Past and Present Drying. Global and Planetary Change. DOI:  10.1016/j.gloplacha.2021.103520.

Bush, M.B., M.N. Nascimento, M.N., Åkesson, C.M., Cardenes, G., Maezumi, S.Y., Behling, H., Correa-Metrio, A. Church, W., Huisman, S., Kelly, T., Mayle, F.E., McMichael, C.N.H. (2021). Widespread reforestation preceded European influence on Amazonia. Science. DOI: 10.1126/science.abf3870.
Carter, V. A., Brunelle, A., Power, M.J., DeRose, J.R., Bekker, M. F., Hart, I., Brewer, S., Spangler, J., Robinson, E., Abbott, M., Maezumi, S.Y., Codding, B.C. (2021). Legacies of Indigenous land use shaped past wildfire regimes in the Basin-Plateau Region, U.S.A. Communications Earth & Environment. DOI: 10.1038/s43247-021-00137-3.

Robinson, M., Betancourt, C.J., Elliott, S., Maezumi, S.Y., Hilbert, L.M., Alves, D., De Souza, J.G., Iriarte, J. (2020). Anthropogenic soil and settlement organisation in the Bolivian Amazon. Geoarchaeology. DOI: 10.1002/gea.21839.

Barnett, R.L., Charman, D.J., Johns, C., Ward, S.L., Bevan, A., Bradley, S., Camidge, K., Fyfe, R.M.,  Gehrels, W.R., Gehrels, M.J.,  Hatton, J.,  Khan, N.S., Marshall, P., Maezumi, S.Y., Mills, S., Mulville, J., Perez, M.,  Roberts, H.M., Scourse, J.D., Shepherd, F., Stevens, T. (2020). Non-linear landscape and cultural response to sea-level rise. Science Advances. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abb6376. 

Chevalier, M., Davis, B., Heiri, O., Gajewski, K., Seppa, H., Lacourse, T., Guiot., J., Marsicek, J., Tipton, J., Dawson, A., Holmström, L., Izumi, K., Maezumi, S.Y., Finsinger, W., Chase, B. M., Kühl, N., Telford, R.J., Zanon, M., Phelps, L., Carter, V., Mauri, A., Vallè, F., de Vernal, A., Goring, S., Chaput, M., Sommer, P., Kupriyanov, D., Nolan, C. (2020). A review of pollen-based climate reconstruction techniques for late Quaternary studies.  Earth-Science Reviews. DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103384. 

Iriarte, J., Elliott, S., Maezumi, S.Y., Alves, D., Gonda, R., Robinson, M., Gregorio De Souza, J., Handley, J, Watling, J. (2020). The origins of Amazonian landscapes: plant cultivation, domestication and the spread of food production in tropical South America. Quaternary Science Reviews. 10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106582. 

Smith, R. J., Mayle, F.E., Maezumi, S.Y., Power, M.J. (2020). Relating pollen representation to an evolving Amazonian landscape between the last glacial maximum and Late Holocene. Quaternary Research. DOI:10.1017/qua.2020.64. 

de Oliveira, E., Marimon-Jr, B., Marimon, B.S., Iriarte, J., Morandi, P., Maezumi, S.Y., Nogueira, D., Aragão, L., Brasil da Silva, I., Feldpausch, T. (2020). Legacy of Amazonia Dark Earth soils on forest structure and species composition. Global Ecology and Biogeography. DOI: 10.1111/geb.13116. 
McLauchlan, K.K., Higuera, P.E., Miesel, J., Rogers, B.M., Schweitzer, J., Shuman, J.K., Tepley, A., Varner, J.M., Veblen, T.T., Adalsteinsson, S.A., Balch, J.K., Baker, P., Batllori, E., Bigio, E., Brando, P., Cattau, M., Chipman, M.L., Coen, J., Crandall, R., Daniels, L., Enright, N., Gross, W.S., Harvey, B.J., Hatten, J.A., Hermann, S., Hewitt, R.E., Kobziar, L.N., Landesmann, J.B., Loranty, M.M., Maezumi, S.Y., Mearns, L., Moritz, M., Myers, J.A., Pausas, J.G., Pellegrini, A. F. A., Platt, W.J., Roozeboom, J., Safford, H., Santos, F., Scheller, R.M., Sherriff, R.L., Smith, K.G., Smith, M.D., Watts A.C. (2020). Fire as a fundamental ecological process: research advances and frontiers. Journal of Ecology. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.13403.  

Gregorio de Souza, J., Robinson, M., Maezumi, S.Y., Schaan, D., Urrego, D., Mayle, F., Whitney, B., Cruz, F., Novello, V., Alves, D., Capriles, J.M., Rostain, S., Apaestegui, J., Hooghiemstra, H., Hoggarth, J., Power, M., Iriarte, J. (2019). Climate change and cultural resilience in late pre-Columbian Amazonia. Nature, Ecology, and Evolution. DOI: 10.3390/fire2020031.  

Arienzo, M.M.; Maezumi, S.Y.; Chellman, N.J.; Iriarte, J. (2019) Pre-Columbian Fire Management Linked to Refractory Black Carbon Emissions in the Amazon. Fire. 

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