TheTimeKnife@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoAmazon drought: 'We've never seen anything like this'www.bbc.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square7fedilinkarrow-up119arrow-down10
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minus-squareripcord@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoThere’s lots of evidence of domestication, cultivation, tending over the last 13,000+ years. But calling it a “planted forest” - like as if the majority of plants out in the Amazon were seeded/planted manually by humans - seems like a huge stretch.
minus-squareburgersc12@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-21 year agoAccording to this paper, about 1/5 of the species variations was due to people
minus-squareripcord@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoOk, but that’s still really far off from being a “planted forest”.
minus-squarewebghost0101@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoThere probably different zones, deeper ones are natural and authentic, zones at the borders will be mostly planted. Its probably fair to call the amazon a collection of forests and other biomes rather then “a forest” but i am no ecologist so don’t quote me on that.
There’s lots of evidence of domestication, cultivation, tending over the last 13,000+ years. But calling it a “planted forest” - like as if the majority of plants out in the Amazon were seeded/planted manually by humans - seems like a huge stretch.
According to this paper, about 1/5 of the species variations was due to people
Ok, but that’s still really far off from being a “planted forest”.
There probably different zones, deeper ones are natural and authentic, zones at the borders will be mostly planted.
Its probably fair to call the amazon a collection of forests and other biomes rather then “a forest” but i am no ecologist so don’t quote me on that.