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Overview

Francis E. Mayle is affiliated with the University of Reading in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple intersecting disciplines, with a primary focus on Earth and Planetary Sciences, Arts and Humanities, and Environmental Science. Specific subfields of study include History, Atmospheric Science, Anthropology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Ecology.

The thematic concentration of Mayle's work covers a range of topics related to Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Plant Diversity and Evolution, Archaeology and ancient environmental studies, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies.

Mayle has contributed to a number of recent publications, which include:

  • Widespread reforestation before European influence on Amazonia, 2021, Science
  • Evidence confirms an anthropic origin of Amazonian Dark Earths, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Floristic change in Brazil's southern Atlantic Forest biodiversity hotspot: From the Last Glacial Maximum to the late 21st Century, 2021, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Modelling the distribution of Amazonian tree species in response to long-term climate change during the Mid-Late Holocene, 2020, Journal of Biogeography
  • Insights into past land-use and vegetation change in the Llanos de Moxos (Bolivia) using fungal non-pollen palynomorphs, 2021, Journal of Archaeological Science

The scientist collaborates regularly with several researchers, including Umberto Lombardo, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, S. Yoshi Maezumi, Eduardo Góes Neves, and Marco F. Raczka.

Their research findings have been published in multiple venues, with frequent contributions to Quaternary Science Reviews, Journal of Archaeological Science, Science, Nature Communications, and Nature.

Best Publications

  • Changes in Fire Regimes Since the Last Glacial Maximum: An Assessment Based on a Global Synthesis and Analysis of Charcoal Data

    Mitch J. Power;J. Marlon;N. Ortiz;P. J. Bartlein

  • Millennial-Scale Dynamics of Southern Amazonian Rain Forests

    Francis E. Mayle;Rachel Burbridge;Timothy J. Killeen

  • Responses of Amazonian ecosystems to climatic and atmospheric carbon dioxide changes since the last glacial maximum

    Francis E. Mayle;David J. Beerling;William D. Gosling;William D. Gosling;Mark B. Bush

  • Impact of a drier Early–Mid-Holocene climate upon Amazonian forests

    Francis E Mayle;Mitchell J Power

  • Fifty-thousand-year vegetation and climate history of Noel Kempff Mercado National Park, Bolivian Amazon

    Rachel E. Burbridge;Francis E. Mayle;Timothy J. Killeen

  • A previously unrecognized late-glacial cold event in eastern North America

    André J. Levesque;Francis E. Mayle;Ian R. Walker;Les C. Cwynar

  • Long-term forest-savannah dynamics in the Bolivian Amazon: implications for conservation

    Francis E Mayle;Robert P Langstroth;Rosie A Fisher;Patrick Meir

  • Differentiation between neotropical rainforest, dry forest, and savannah ecosystems by their modern pollen spectra and implications for the fossil pollen record.

    William D. Gosling;Francis E. Mayle;Nicholas J. Tate;Timothy J. Killeen

  • Impact of pre-Columbian "geoglyph" builders on Amazonian forests.

    Jennifer Watling;Jennifer Watling;José Iriarte;Francis E. Mayle;Denise Schaan

  • Environmental impact of geometric earthwork construction in pre-Columbian Amazonia.

    John Francis Carson;John Francis Carson;Bronwen S. Whitney;Francis E. Mayle;José Iriarte

  • A 45kyr palaeoclimate record from the lowland interior of tropical South America

    Bronwen S. Whitney;Francis E. Mayle;Surangi W. Punyasena;Katharine A. Fitzpatrick

  • Climate variability and human impact in South America during the last 2000 years: synthesis and perspectives from pollen records

    Suzette Flantua;H. Hooghiemstra;Mathias Vuille;H. Behling

  • Assessment of the Neotropical dry forest refugia hypothesis in the light of palaeoecological data and vegetation model simulations

    Francis E. Mayle

  • Stomatal frequency adjustment of four conifer species to historical changes in atmospheric CO2.

    Lenny L. R. Kouwenberg;Jennifer C. McElwain;Wolfram M. Kürschner;Friederike Wagner

  • Pollen-based biome reconstructions for Latin America at 0, 6000 and 18 000 radiocarbon years ago

    R. Marchant;A. Cleef;S. P. Harrison;H. Hooghiemstra

  • Fire-free land use in pre-1492 Amazonian savannas

    José Iriarte;Mitchell J. Power;Stéphen Rostain;Francis E. Mayle

  • Climatic control of the biomass-burning decline in the Americas after ad 1500

    Mitchell J. Power;F. E. Mayle;P. J. Bartlein;J. R. Marlon

  • The chronology of palaeoenvironmental changes during the Last Glacial-Holocene transition: towards an event stratigraphy for the British Isles

    J. J. Lowe;H. H. Birks;S. J. Brooks;G. R. Coope

  • Accelerator-mass-spectrometer ages for the Younger Dryas event in Atlantic Canada

    Francis E. Mayle;André J. Levesque;Les C. Cwynar

  • Diversity of cultivars and other plant resources used at habitation sites in the Llanos de Mojos, Beni, Bolivia: evidence from macrobotanical remains, starch grains, and phytoliths

    Ruth Dickau;Maria C. Bruno;José Iriarte;Heiko Prümers

  • Responses of Amazonian ecosystems to climatic and atmospheric carbon dioxide changes since the last glacial maximum: One contribution of 17 to a Theme Issue 'Tropical forests and global atmospheric change'

    Francis E. Mayle;David J. Beerling;William D. Gosling;Mark B. Bush

Frequent Co-Authors

José Iriarte
José Iriarte University of Exeter
William D. Gosling
William D. Gosling University of Amsterdam
Mark B. Bush
Mark B. Bush Florida Institute of Technology
Luiz Carlos Ruiz Pessenda
Luiz Carlos Ruiz Pessenda Universidade de São Paulo
Hermann Behling
Hermann Behling University of Göttingen
Les C. Cwynar
Les C. Cwynar University of New Brunswick
David J. Beerling
David J. Beerling University of Sheffield
Sandy P. Harrison
Sandy P. Harrison University of Reading
Henry Hooghiemstra
Henry Hooghiemstra University of Amsterdam
J. John Lowe
J. John Lowe Royal Holloway University of London

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