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48
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - William S. Cooper Award, The Ecological Society of America Persistent effects of pre-Columbian plant domestication on Amazonian forest composition. Science 355(6328): 925-931. DOI: 10.1126/science.aal0157

Overview

Charles R. Clement is affiliated with the National Institute of Amazonian Research in Brazil. Their research spans several fields primarily within Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Arts and Humanities. The scientist's work includes significant contributions to subfields such as History, Plant Science, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and General Health Professions.

The primary research topics addressed by Charles R. Clement include:

  • Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Banana Cultivation and Research
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Cassava research and cyanide
  • Indigenous Health and Education
  • Plant Diversity and Evolution

Their recent notable publications include:

  • Disentangling Domestication from Food Production Systems in the Neotropics (2021, Quaternary)
  • Help restore Brazil's governance of globally important ecosystem services (2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution)
  • Ancient and Traditional Agriculture in South America: Tropical Lowlands (2020, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Environmental Science)
  • Contributions of human cultures to biodiversity and ecosystem conservation (2024, Nature Ecology & Evolution)
  • Evidence confirms an anthropic origin of Amazonian Dark Earths (2022, Nature Communications)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Charles R. Clement include:

  • Carolina Levis
  • Maria Julia Ferreira
  • Elizabeth Ann Veasey
  • Mariana Franco Cassino
  • Myrtle P. Shock

Common publication venues where the scientist's work appears are:

  • Human Ecology
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Scientific Reports
  • PLoS ONE
  • Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution

In 2020, Charles R. Clement received the William S. Cooper Award from The Ecological Society of America. This award recognized work on the persistent effects of pre-Columbian plant domestication on Amazonian forest composition as published in Science.

Best Publications

  • 1492 and the loss of amazonian crop genetic resources. I. The relation between domestication and human population decline

    Charles Roland Clement

  • Persistent effects of pre-Columbian plant domestication on Amazonian forest composition

    C. Levis;F. R. C. Costa;F. Bongers;M. Peña-Claros

  • The domestication of Amazonia before European conquest.

    Charles R. Clement;William M. Denevan;Michael J. Heckenberger;André Braga Junqueira;André Braga Junqueira

  • How people domesticated Amazonian forests

    Carolina Levis;Carolina Levis;Bernardo M. Flores;Priscila A. Moreira;Bruno G. Luize

  • Non-timber products from tropical forests: evaluation of a conservation and development strategy.

    Daniel C. Nepstad;Stephan Schwartzman

  • Markets Drive the Specialization Strategies of Forest Peoples

    Manuel Ruiz-Pérez;Brian Belcher;Ramadhani Achdiawan;Miguel Alexiades

  • Fungal Planet description sheets: 716-784.

    Pedro W. Crous;Michael J. Wingfield;T.I. Burgess;G.E.St.J. Hardy

  • 1492 and the loss of Amazonian crop genetic resources. II. Crop biogeography at contact

    Charles Roland Clement

  • Pejibaye palm ( Bactris gasipaes, Arecaceae ): Multi-use potential for the lowland humid tropics

    Charles R. Clement;Jorge E. Mora UrpÍ

  • Disentangling Domestication from Food Production Systems in the Neotropics

    Charles Roland Clement;Alejandro Casas;Fabiola Alexandra Parra-Rondinel;Carolina Levis

  • Secondary forests on anthropogenic soils in Brazilian Amazonia conserve agrobiodiversity

    André Braga Junqueira;Glenn Harvey Shepard;Charles Roland Clement

  • Historical human footprint on modern tree species composition in the Purus-Madeira interfluve, central Amazonia.

    Carolina Levis;Priscila Figueira de Souza;Juliana Schietti;Thaise Emilio

  • Why extensive research and development did not promote use of peach palm fruit in Latin America

    C. R. Clement;J. C. Weber;J. van Leeuwen;C. Astorga Domian

  • Agrobiodiversity in Amazônia and Its Relationship with Dark Earths

    Charles R. Clement;Joseph M. McCann;Nigel J. H. Smith

  • Somatic embryogenesis in peach palm using the thin cell layer technique: induction, morpho-histological aspects and AFLP analysis of somaclonal variation.

    D. A. Steinmacher;N. G. Krohn;A. C. M. Dantas;V. M. Stefenon

  • The management of tree genetic resources and the livelihoods of rural communities in the tropics: non-timber forest products, smallholder agroforestry practices and tree commodity crops

    Ian K. Dawson;Roger Leakey;Charles R. Clement;John C. Weber

  • Somatic embryogenesis from immature peach palm inflorescence explants: towards development of an efficient protocol

    Douglas A. Steinmacher;Charles R. Clement;Charles R. Clement;Miguel P. Guerra;Miguel P. Guerra

  • Between a Pristine Myth and an Impoverished Future

    Charles R. Clement;André B. Junqueira

  • Documenting Domestication. New Genetic and Archaeological Paradigms

    Charles R. Clement

  • Padronização de medidas de crescimento e produção em experimentos com pupunheira para palmito

    Charles R. Clement;Marilene Leão Alves Bovi

  • Somatic embryogenesis from peach palm zygotic embryos

    D. A. Steinmacher;G. C. Cangahuala-Inocente;C. R. Clement;M. P. Guerra

  • Secondary Forests on Anthropogenic Soils of the Middle Madeira River: Valuation, Local Knowledge, and Landscape Domestication in Brazilian Amazonia

    André Braga Junqueira;Glenn Harvey Shepard;Charles R. Clement

Frequent Co-Authors

Søren Wichmann
Søren Wichmann Kiel University
Eike Luedeling
Eike Luedeling University of Bonn
Flávia R. C. Costa
Flávia R. C. Costa National Institute of Amazonian Research
Marielos Peña-Claros
Marielos Peña-Claros Wageningen University & Research
Hans ter Steege
Hans ter Steege Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Juliana Schietti
Juliana Schietti Federal University of Amazonas
Alejandro Casas
Alejandro Casas National Autonomous University of Mexico
George G. Brown
George G. Brown Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation
Miguel Pedro Guerra
Miguel Pedro Guerra Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
Paul C. Struik
Paul C. Struik Wageningen University & Research

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