*4.1. Authors*

There is important participation of authors affiliated with foreign countries doing Historical Ecology in Brazil, especially in the Amazon biome, though the Brazilian affiliations still hold the majority. This shows the importance of the Amazon biome for international research due to it historically being regarded as the largest tropical forest remnant in the world and its relevance to global ecology and climate change [177]. Furthermore, it has attracted the attention of numerous foreign anthropologists, ecologists, and biologists,

many of which helped develop the field of Historical Ecology (e.g., William Balée, Michael Heckenberger).

Concerning the gender perspective, men make up a higher proportion of historical ecology researchers in Brazil within our study period compared to women. Considering only the researchers with Brazilian affiliation, we find a slightly more equitable proportion of 58% men and 42% women. This is more equitable than a gender study analyzing the differences between men and women researchers getting the scientific productivity funding from the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), which shows a significantly bigger proportion in absolute numbers of men researchers getting the funding. However, if we focus on Applied Social Sciences and Biological Sciences, where Historical Ecology topics might be included, the disproportion is smaller [178].
