The impact of prehistoric agriculture and land occupation on natural vegetation
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TL;DR
Paleoecological and paleoethnobotanical evidence from Europe and North America indicates that prehistoric human populations affected the biota by changing the dominance structure within forest communities.
Abstract
Paleoecological and paleoethnobotanical evidence from Europe and North America indicates that prehistoric human populations affected the biota by: (1) changing the dominance structure within forest communities; (2) extending or truncating the distributional ranges of both woody and herbaceous plant species; (3) providing opportunities for invasion of ruderals into disturbed areas, with their subsequent population expansions as they became weeds; and (4) changing the pattern of the landscape mosaic, especially the proportion of forested to nonforested land.