Olaf Kaltmeier is a professor of Iberoamerican history at Universität Bielefeld. Since its foundation in 2008, he has been the director of CALAS - Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences. He is founding director and member of the Executive Board for the Center for InterAmerican Studies (CIAS) at Universität Bielefeld and director of the collaborative research project »Turning Land into Capital«.
Antoine Acker is an environmental historian and professor at Université de Genève, with a particular interest in international connections and the place of Latin America in the history of the Anthropocene. He directs the AnthropoSouth: Latin American Oil Revolutions in the Development Century project, and co-directs Lost Cities, a collaborative project funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation.
León Enrique Ávila Romero is a full-time professor-researcher in Sustainable Development at the Intercultural University of Chiapas (UNICH). He is the leader of the consolidated academic body »Heritage, territory, and development in the southern border of Mexico«, a member of the SNI-CONACyT level I, and an honorary member of the SEI Cocytech.
Regina Horta Duarte has been a full professor at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais in Brazil since 1988, and is currently a permanent professor of its Graduate Program in History. Her research focuses on the Brazilian Republic, history and nature, the history of biology, and animal history. She coordinates the Center of Animal History (CEA-UFMG).

Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Acknowledgements 9
Academic Advisory Board 11
The Anthropocene as Multiple Crisis 15
Introduction: Biodiversity and the Anthropocene in Colonial Latin America 49
Biodiversity in the Southern Cone in the Colonial Period 57
Biodiversity in the Andes in the Colonial Period 77
Biodiversity in the Amazon in the Colonial Period 103
Biodiversity in Mesoamerica in the Colonial Period 123
Biodiversity in the Caribbean in the Colonial Period 139
Introduction: Biodiversity and the Anthropocene in Latin America from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to 1950 159
Biodiversity in the Southern Cone from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to 1950 167
Biodiversity in the Andes from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to 1950 195
Biodiversity in the Amazon from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to 1950 219
Biodiversity in Mesoamerica from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to 1950 243
Biodiversity in the Caribbean from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to 1950 261
Introduction: Biodiversity and the Anthropocene in Latin America from 1950 to the Present 281
Biodiversity in the Southern Cone from 1950 to the Present 293
Biodiversity in the Andes from 1950 to the Present 315
Biodiversity in the Amazon from 1950 to the Present 335
Biodiversity in Mesoamerica from 1950 to the Present 363
Biodiversity in the Caribbean from 1950 to the Present 385
Biographical Notes 413