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2012

McMichael, C.H., Bush, M.B., Silman, M.R., Piperno, D.R., Raczka, M., Lobato, L.C., Zimmerman, M., Hagen, S. & Palace, M. (2012) Historical fire and bamboo dynamics in western Amazonia. Journal of Biogeography DOI: 10.1111/jbi.12002
Urrego, D.H., Bush, M.B., Silman, M.R., Niccum, B.A., De La Rosa, P., McMichael, C.H., Hagen, S. & Palace, M. (2012) Holocene fires, forest stability and human occupation in south-western Amazonia. Journal of Biogeography DOI: 10.1111/jbi.12016
Raczka, M.F., Oliveira, P., Bush, M.B. & McMichael, C.H. (in press) Two paleoecological histories spanning the period of human settlement in southeastern Brazil. Journal of Quaternary Science
Sublette Mosblech NA, Chepstow-Lusty A, Valencia BG, Bush MB (2012) Anthropogenic control of late-Holocene landscapes in the Cuzco region, Peru. The Holocene.
McMichael CH, Piperno DR, Bush MB, Silman MR, Zimmerman AR, Raczka MF, Lobato LC (2012) Sparse Pre-Columbian Human Habitation in Western Amazonia. Science, 336, 1429-1431.
McMichael CH, Bush MB, Piperno DR, Silman MR, Zimmerman AR, Anderson C. (2012) Spatial and temporal scales of pre-Columbian disturbance associated with western Amazonian lakes. Holocene, 22, 131-141.
Mcmichael C, Correa-Metrio A, Bush MB (2012) Pre-Columbian fire regimes in lowland tropical rainforests of southeastern Peru. . Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 342-343, 72-83.
Correa-Metrio A, Bush MB, Hodell DA, Brenner M, Escobar J, Guilderson T (2012) The influence of abrupt climate change on the ice-age vegetation of the Central American lowlands. Journal of Biogeography, 39, 497-509.
Bush MB, Gosling WD (2012) Environmental change in the humid tropics and monsoonal regions. In: The SAGE handbook of environmental change: Volume 2. Human Impacts and Response (eds Matthews JA, et al. ) pp 113-140. London, Sage.
Bush MB, Flenley JR, Gosling WD (eds) 2012 Tropical rainforest responses to climate change. Praxis, Chichester. (BOOK)

2011

Urrego DH, Silman MR, Correa-Metrio A, Bush MB (2011) Pollen–vegetation relationships along steep climatic gradients in western Amazonia. Journal of Vegetation Science, 22, 795-806.
Mosblech NA, Bush MB, Van Woesik R (2011) On Metapopulations and Microrefugia: palaeoecological insights. Journal of Biogeography, 38, 419-429.
Hanselman JA, Bush MB, Gosling WD, Collins A, Knox C, Baker PA, Fritz SC (2011) A 370,000-year record of vegetation and fire history around Lake Titicaca (Bolivia/Peru). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 305, 201-214.
Feeley K, M.R. S, Bush MB et al. (2011) Upslope migration of Andean trees. Journal of Biogeography, 38, 783–791.
Correa-Metrio A, Bush MB, Pérez L, Schwalb A, Cabrera KR (2011) Pollen distribution along climatic and biogeographic gradients in northern Central America. The Holocene, 21, 681-692.
Collins A, Bush MB (2011) An analysis of modern pollen representation and climatic conditions on the Galápagos Islands. The Holocene, 21, 237-250.
Bush MB, Mosblech NA (2011) Quaternary tropical plant extinction: A paleoecological view from the Neotropics. In: Saving a million species: Extinction risk from climate change. (eds Hannah L, Lovejoy TE) pp 199-214. Washington DC., Island Press.
Bush MB, Gosling WD, Colinvaux PA (2011) Climate Change in the Lowlands of the Amazon Basin, 2nd Edn. In: Tropical rainforest responses to climate change. (eds Bush MB, Flenley JR, Gosling WD) pp Page. Chichester, Praxis Springer.

2010

Correa-Metrio, A. ; Cabrera, K.R.; and Bush, M.B. 2010. Quantifying ecological change through discriminant analysis: a paleoecological example from the Peruvian Amazon. Journal of Vegetation Science 21: 695-704.
Correa-Metrio, A., Urrego, D.H., Cabrera, K., and Bush, M.B. 2010. paleoMAS: paleoecological analysis. http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=paleoMAS .
Urrego, D.H., Niccum, B.A., La Drew, C.F., Silman, M.R., Bush, M.B. in press. Fire and drought as drivers of past treeline changes in the Peruvian Andes. Journal of Quaternary Science.
Urrego, D.H., Bush, M.B. and Silman, M.R. 2010. A long history of cloud and forest migration from Lake Consuelo, Peru. Quaternary Research 73: 364-373.
Valencia, B.G., Urrego, D.H., Silman, M.R. and Bush, M.B. 2010. From ice age to modern: a record of landscape change in an Andean cloud forest. Journal of Biogeography.

2009

Bush, M.B., A. Correa-Metrio, D.A. Hodell, M. Brenner, D. Ariztegui, D. Anselmetti, A. Gilli, C. Burton and A.D. Muller. 2009. The Last Glacial Maximum: Central America. Past climate variability from the Last Glacial Maximum to the Holocene in South America and sourounding regions. F. Vimeux, F. Sylvestre and M. Khodri. Springer, Paris.
Conroy, J., A. Restrepo, J.T. Overpeck, M. Steinitz-Kannan, J.E. Cole, M.B. Bush and P.A. Colinvaux. 2009. Unprecedented recent warming in the eastern tropical Pacific. Nature Geosciences.
Hillyer, R., M.B. Bush, B.G. Valencia, M. Steinitz-Kannan and M.R. Silman. 2009. A 24,000-year paleolimnological history from the Peruvian Andes. Quaternary Research.
Mayle, F.E., M.J. Burn, M. Power and D.H. Urrego. 2009. Vegetation and fire at the Last Glacial Maximum in tropical South America. Past climate variability from the Last Glacial Maximum to the Holocene in South America and surrounding regions. F. Vimeux, F. Sylvestre and M. Khodri, Springer, Paris.
Raper D.J. and M.B. Bush. 2009. A test of Sporormiella representation as a predictor of megaherbivore presence and abundance. Quaternary Research.
Urrego, D.H., M.B. Bush, M.R. Silman, A. Correa-Metrio, M.-P. Ledru, F.E. Mayle and B.G. Valencia. 2009. Millennial-scale ecological changes in tropical South America since the Last Glacial Maximum. Past climate variability from the Last Glacial Maximum to the Holocene in South America and surrounding regions. F. Vimeux, F. Sylvestre and M. Khodri, Springer, Paris.
Urrego, D. H. & Bush, M.B. 2009. Climate change and history of western Amazonian forests. A paleoecological analysis. Verlag Dr. Müller, Saarbrücken, Germany. 149 p.
Urrego, D.H.; Aronson, R. and Bush, B. 2009. Holocene ITCZ and ENSO-driven climate variability from the Panama isthmus. Eos Trans. AGU 90(52) Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract PP22B-06.

Bush, M.B., M. R. Silman, C. McMichael, and S. Saatchi. 2008. Fire, climate change and biodiversity in Amazonia: a Late-Holocene perspective. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B.
Bush, M.B. and P.E. De Oliveira. 2008. Amazonian conservation: A long-term cultural and climate change perspective. Estratégias de Sustentabilidade, aspectos científicos, sociais e legais. Contexto Global, visão comparativa. G. Araujo. São Paulo.
Bush, M.B. and M.R. Silman. 2008. Amazonia: a cultural landscape? An international forum on sustainability. G. Nelson and I. Hronsky. Arisztotelész Publishing, Budapest.
Richardson, C.J., P. Vaihivanathan, R.G. Qualls, M.B. Bush, C.A. Stow and M. Ho. 2008. Water quality, soil chemistry, and ecosystem responses to P dosing. The Everglades Experiments. C. J. Richardson. Springer, Washington.
de Toledo, M. and M.B. Bush. 2008. Vegetation and hydrology changes in Eastern Amazonia inferred from a pollen record. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciéncias 80.
de Toledo, M. and M.B. Bush. 2008. A Holocene pollen record of savanna establishment in coastal Amapá. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciéncias 80: 341-351.
Gosling, W. D., M. B. Bush, J. A. Hanselman, and A. J. Chepstow-Lusty. 2008. Glacial-interglacial changes in moisture balance and the impact on vegetation in the southern hemisphere tropical Andes (Bolivia/Peru). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 259:35-50.
Hodell, D.A., D. Anselmetti, D. Ariztegui, M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, A. Gilli, D.A. Grzesik, T.J. Guilderson, A.D. Muller, M.B. Bush, A. Correa-Metrio, J. Escobar and S. Kutterolf. 2008. An 85-ka record of climate change in lowland Central America. Quaternary Science Reviews 27: 1152-1165.
Power, M.J., J. Marlon, N. Ortiz, P.J. Bartlein, S.P. Harrison, F.E. Mayle, A. Ballouche, R.H.W. Bradshaw, C. Carcaillet, C. Cordova, S. Mooney, P.I. Moreno, I.C. Prentice, K. Thonicke, W. Tinner, C. Whitlock, Y. Zhang, Y. Zhao, A.A. Ali, R.S. Anderson, R. Beer, H. Behling, C. Briles, K.J. Brown, A. Brunelle, M.B. Bush, P. Camill, G.Q. Chu, J. Clark, D. Colombaroli, S. Connor, A.-L. Daniau, M. Daniels, J. Dodson, E. Doughty, M.E. Edwards, W. Finsinger, D. Foster, F. J., M.-J. Gaillard, D.G. Gavin, E. Gobet, S. Haberle, D.J. Hallett, P. Higuera, G. Hope, S. Horn, J. Inoue, P. Kaltenrieder, L. Kennedy, Z.C. Kong, C. Larsen, C.J. Long, J. Lynch, E.A. Lynch, M. McGlone, S. Meeks, S. Mensing, G. Meyer, T. Minckley, J. Mohr, D.M. Nelson, J. New, R. Newnham, R. Noti, W. Oswald, J. Pierce, P.J.H. Richard, C. Rowe, M.F. Sanchez Goñi, B.J. Shuman, H. Takahara, J. Toney, C. Turney, D.H. Urrego, C. Umbanhowar, M. Vandergoes, B. Vanniere, E. Vescovi, M. Walsh, X. Wang, N. Williams, J. Wilmshurst and J.H. Zhang 2008. Changes in fire regimes since the Last Glacial Maximum: an assessment based on a global synthesis and analysis of charcoal data. Climate Dynamics 30: 887-907.

Bush, M. B., M. R. Silman, M. B. de Toledo, C. Listopad, W. D. Gosling, C. Williams, P. E. de Oliveira, and C. Krisel. 2007. Holocene fire and occupation in Amazonia: records from two lake districts. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B.
Bush, M. B., M. R. Silman, and C. M. C. S. Listopad. 2007. Climate change and human occupation in Peruvian Amazonia: A paleoecological perspective. Journal of Biogeography.
Bush, M.B. and Lovejoy, T.E. 2007. Amazonian conservation: pushing the limits of biogeographical knowledge. Journal of Biogeography 34: 1291-1293.
de Toledo, M. B., and M. B. Bush. 2007. A mid-Holocene environmental change in Amazonian savannas. Journal of Biogeography 34:1313-1326.
Bush, M.B. and Flenley, J.R. 2007. Tropical Rainforest Responses to Climate Change. Praxis, Chichester.

Bush, M. B., and P. E. Oliveira. 2006. The rise and fall of the Refugial Hypothesis of Amazonian Speciation: a paleo-ecological perspective. Biota Neotropica 6.
Bush, M. B., and C. Weng. 2006. Introducing a new (freeware) tool for palynology Journal of Biogeography 34:377-380.
Urrego, L. E., L. A. Molina, D. H. Urrego, and L. F. Ramírez. 2006. Holocene space-time succession of the Middle Atrato Wetlands, Choco Biogeographic Region, Colombia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 234:45-61.

Bush, M. B., B. C. S. Hansen, D. T. Rodbell, G. O. Seltzer, K. R. Young, B. León, M. B. Abbott, M. R. Silman, and W. D. Gosling. 2005. A 17 000-year history of Andean climate and vegetation change from Laguna de Chochos, Peru. Journal of Quaternary Science 20:703-714.
Bush, M. B. 2005. Of orogeny, precipitation, precession and parrots. Journal of Biogeography 32:1301-1302.
Chepstow-Lusty, A. J., M. B. Bush, M. R. Frogley, P. A. Baker, S. C. Fritz, and J. Aronson. 2005. Vegetation and climate change on the Bolivian Altiplano between 108,000 and 18,000 yr ago. Quaternary Research 63:90-98.
Hanselman, J. A., W. D. Gosling, G. M. Paduano, and M. B. Bush. 2005. Contrasting pollen histories of MIS 5e and the Holocene from Lake Titicaca (Bolivia/Peru). Journal of Quaternary Science 20:663-670.
Urrego, D. H., M. R. Silman, and M. B. Bush. 2005. The Last Glacial Maximum: stability and change in a western Amazonian cloud forest. Journal of Quaternary Science 20:693-701.
Bush, M. B., and H. Hooghiemstra. 2005. Tropical biotic responses to climate change. Pages 125-137 in T. E. Lovejoy and L. Hannah, editors. Climate Change and Biodiversity. Yale University Press, New Haven.
Bush, M. B. 2005. Holocene climates of the lowland tropical forests. Pages 293-306 in A. Mackay, R. Battarbee, J. Birks, and F. Oldfield, editors. Global Change in the Holocene. Academic Press, 2005.
Silman, M. R., A. Araujo-Murakami, D. H. Urrego, M. B. Bush, and H. Pariamo. 2005. Estructura de las comunidades de árboles en el límite sur de la Amazonía occidental: Manu and Madidi. Ecología en Bolivia 40:441-451.

Bush, M. B., and M. R. Silman. 2004. Observations on Late Pleistocene cooling and precipitation in the lowlands Neotropics. Journal of Quaternary Science 19:677-684.
Bush, M. B., P. E. De Oliveira, P. A. Colinvaux, M. C. Miller, and E. Moreno. 2004. Amazonian paleoecological histories: one hill, three watersheds. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 214:359-393.
Bush, M. B., M. R. Silman, and D. H. Urrego. 2004. 48,000 years of climate and forest change in a biodiversity hot spot. Science 303:827-829.

Paduano, G. M., M. B. Bush, P. A. Baker, S. C. Fritz, and G. O. Seltzer. 2003. A vegetation and fire history of Lake Titicaca since the Last Glacial Maximum. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 194:259-279.
Chepstow-Lusty, A., M. R. Frogley, B. S. Bauer, M. B. Bush, and A. T. Herrera. 2003. A late Holocene record of arid events from the Cuzco region, Peru. Journal of Quaternary Science 18:491-502.

Bush, M. B., M. C. Miller, P. E. De Oliveira, and P. A. Colinvaux. 2002. Orbital-forcing signal in sediments of two Amazonian lakes. Journal of Paleolimnology 27:341-352.
Bush, M. B. 2002. Distributional change and conservation on the Andean flank: a paleoecological perspective. Global Ecology and Biogeography 11:463-473.
Bush, M. B. 2002. On the interpretation of fossil Poaceae pollen in the humid lowland neotropics. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 177:5-17.

Bush, M. B., E. Moreno, P. E. De Oliveira, E. Asanza, and P. A. Colinvaux. 2001. The influence of biogeographic and ecological heterogeneity on Amazonian pollen spectra. Journal of Tropical Ecology 17:729-743.
Bush, M. B., and R. Rivera. 2001. Reproductive ecology and pollen representation among neotropical trees. Global Ecology and Biogeography 10:359-368.

Bush, M. B. 2000. Deriving response matrices from Central American modern pollen rain. Quaternary Research 54:132-143.
Bush, M. B., M. C. Miller, P. E. De Oliveira, and P. A. Colinvaux. 2000. Two histories of environmental change and human disturbance in eastern lowland Amazonia. The Holocene 10:543-554.