Reply to Silva: Dynamic human-vegetation-climate interactions at forest ecotones during the late-Holocene in lowland South America

Affiliations

¹ Department of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading RG6 6AB, United Kingdom; School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9XP, United Kingdom; j.f.carson@reading.ac.uk.
² School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9XP, United Kingdom;
³ Department of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading RG6 6AB, United Kingdom;
⁴ Department of Archaeology, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QE, United Kingdom;
⁵ Kommission für Archäologie Aussereuropäischer Kulturen, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, 53173 Bonn, Germany; and.
⁶ Herbario del Oriente Boliviano, Museo de Historia Natural 'Noel Kempff Mercado,' Universidad Autónoma Gabriel René Moreno, Casilla 2489, Santa Cruz, Bolivia.

Comment

John Francis Carson et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2014.

. 2014 Sep 16;111(37):E3833.

doi: 10.1073/pnas.1413867111. Epub 2014 Aug 26.

¹ Department of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading RG6 6AB, United Kingdom; School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9XP, United Kingdom; j.f.carson@reading.ac.uk.
² School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9XP, United Kingdom;
³ Department of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading RG6 6AB, United Kingdom;
⁴ Department of Archaeology, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QE, United Kingdom;
⁵ Kommission für Archäologie Aussereuropäischer Kulturen, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, 53173 Bonn, Germany; and.
⁶ Herbario del Oriente Boliviano, Museo de Historia Natural 'Noel Kempff Mercado,' Universidad Autónoma Gabriel René Moreno, Casilla 2489, Santa Cruz, Bolivia.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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