Amazon forest
Carbon in Physical Fractions and Organic Matter Chemical Composition of an Acrisol after Amazon Forest Burning and Conversion into Pasture
... The aim of this study was to investigate impacts of Amazon Forest (AF) fire and conversion to pasture on carbon accumulation in particle size fractions and organic matter (OM) composition of an Acrisol. ...
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Amazon Forest Maintenance as a Source of Environmental Services
... Amazonian forest produces environmental services such as maintenance of biodiversity, water cycling and carbon ...standing forest into the foundation of an economy based on maintaining rather than ...
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Chemical composition of aerosol collected in the amazon forest.
... CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF AEROSOL COLLECTED IN THE AMAZON FOREST. It was identified and quantified several organic compounds in the atmosphere of a site into Amazon Basin with high impact of biomass ...
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Sampling procedures for inventory of commercial volume tree species in Amazon Forest
... commercial forest inventories, therefore, appropriate sampling procedures are required to survey species with different spatial patterns in the Amazon ...National Forest, Brazil, where trees with ...
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Regional and large-scale patterns in Amazon forest structure and function are mediated by variations in soil physical and chemical properties
... Quesada, C. A., Lloyd, J., Schwarz, M., Pati ˜no, S., Baker, T. R., Czimczik, C., Fyllas, N. M., Martinelli, L., Nardoto, G. B., Schmerler, J., Santos, A. J. B., Hodnett, M. G., Herrera, R., Luiz ˜ao, F. J., Arneth, A., ...
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Airborne laser scanning for terrain modeling in the Amazon forest
... Misclassification of the ground returns commonly results in errors in the final DTM (Stereńczak and Kozak 2011). Many factors affect DTM accuracy, including density and distribution of the elevation sample, the filtering ...
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Optimal selective logging regime and log landing location models: a case study in the Amazon forest
... sustainable forest management plans in the ...assessed. Forest structure aspects, income and wood production were set in the model, as well as the adjacency ...ombrophylous forest in the western ...
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Digital Approach for Measuring Tree Diameters in the Amazon Forest
... of forest measurement determines measures without physical contact with the ...stand-level forest measurement are examples of indirect measurement equipment developed for individual (Alder & Synnott, ...
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Variations in leaf physiological properties within Amazon forest canopies
... 1981) – as generally seems to be also the case for tropical forest trees (Rozendaal et al., 2006). The intra-tree Mg gradient was not, however, significant when expressed on a leaf area basis, despite both [N] A ...
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Climate response to Amazon forest replacement by heterogeneous crop cover
... Amazon results in an albedo increase, lowering net radiation, which in turn modifies the surface fluxes. Both latent heat flux and sensible heat flux are reduced, but the evaporative fraction decreases, modifying ...
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Luiz Antonio Martinelli 1,3 Solange Filoso
... the Amazon forest by ...Atlantic forest, for instance, was replaced by crop fields and urban areas centuries ago (Branstom & Oliveira ...the Amazon region, where deforestation rates are ...
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Medicinal plants used in Rondônia, Western Amazon, Brazil
... Western Amazon and provides information that can be used in phytochemical ...Brazilian Amazon, focusing on native ...the Amazon Forest: Theobroma grandiflorum ...native Amazon species ...
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Forest spatial heterogeneity and palm richness, abundance and community composition in Terra Firme forest, Central Amazon
... Peruvian Amazon forest Astrocraryum seedling survival was found to be positively related to the amount of incident light (Cintra & Terborgh ...2000). Forest architecture or the number of ...
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Population structure and genetic diversity of the giant anteater( Myrmecophaga tridactyla : Myrmecophagidae, Pilosa) in Brazil
... The giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla, Pilosa, Linnaeus 1758) belongs to the mammalian order Pilosa and presents a large distribution along South America, occupying a great variety of habitats. It is listed in the ...
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Rev. Esc. Minas vol.64 número1
... Colombian Amazon forest showing high content of archaeological ceramic fragments similarly to those in the Brazilian Amazon represented by Quebrada Tacana ...
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Global warming in Amazonia: Impacts and Mitigation
... the Amazon forest offers one of the most valuable and cost-effective options for mitigating climate ...and forest fires (as in ...the forest provides rainfall that maintains climatic ...
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Some palaeoecological data fr om Ron
... At the present time the Amazon Basin is largely covered by forest but some areas have a savanna vegetation which may serve as refuges for species of plants and an[r] ...
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Lumber Yield of Four Native Forest Species of the Amazon Region
... The Amazon region stands out as one of the main producers of tropical wood worldwide, and the north region of Mato Grosso state is highlighted in forest production (Melo et ...Sustainable Forest ...
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High-resolution Mapping of Forest Carbon Stocks in the Colombian Amazon
... historical forest change maps (deforestation, disturbance, regrowth) and variables from SRTM including elevation, slope, aspect and a terrain ruggedness index ...
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