Amazon rainforest
Understory host plant and insect gall diversity changes across topographic habitats differing in nutrient and water stress in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest
... Topographic gradients in terra firme forests are associated with pronounced changes in soil texture, soil nutrients and distance to the water-table, thereby creating different hydric and nutritional conditions for plants ...
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Floral biology and a pollinator eff ectiveness test of the diurnal fl oral visitors of Tabernaemontana undulata Vahl. (Apocynaceae) in the understory of Amazon Rainforest, Brazil
... (Floral biology and a pollinator eff ectiveness test of the diurnal fl oral visitors of Tabernaemontana undulata Vahl. (Apocynaceae) in the understory of Amazon Rainforest, Brazil). In this paper we ...
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Evaluation of geostatistical techniques to estimate the spatial distribution of aboveground biomass in the Amazon rainforest using high-resolution remote sensing data
... the Amazon is heterogeneous with a temporal and spatial variation, especially in relation to the different vegetation types of this ...the Amazon rainforest from Sucumbíos - ...
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Ancient Dispersal of the Human Fungal Pathogen Cryptococcus gattii from the Amazon Rainforest
... In conclusion, coalescence gene genealogy and phylogenetic analyses showed that the recent emergence of C. gattii AFLP6/ VGII into temperate Mediterranean climate regions was most likely due to ancient dispersal out of ...
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Fish Fauna in Oxbow Lakes of the Middle Purus River in the Neotropical Region of the Amazon Rainforest / Fauna de peixes em lagos de meandro abandonado no Médio Rio Purus na região Amazônica Neotropical
... Thus, information on fish assemblages that occur in oxbow lakes of the Middle Purus River is an important resource for gathering data on the richness of fish species, thereby contributing to the knowledge and ...
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Predicting the response of the Amazon rainforest to persistent drought conditions under current and future climates: a major challenge for global land surface models
... Pan, Y., Birdsey, R. A., Fang, J., Houghton, R., Kauppi, P. E., Kurz, W. A., Phillips, O. L., Shvidenko, A., Lewis, S. L., Canadell, J. G., Ciais, P., Jackson, R. B., Pacala, S. W., McGuire, A. D., Piao, S., Rautiainen, ...
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Quantitative and qualitative damage caused by Oebalus poecilus (Hemiptera, Pentatomidae) to upland rice cultivated in new agricultural frontier of the Amazon rainforest (Brazil)
... Although there are many studies reporting the damage of several species of Oebalus, most were conducted in irrigated rice (Ferreira; Vieira; Rangel, 2002; Ferreira; Barrigossi, 2006). Moreover, these studies usually ...
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Survey of social wasps (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Polistinae) in Amazon rainforest fragments in Acre, Brazil
... Brazilian Amazon rainforest has one of the greatest biodiversities in the world, including the greatest diversity of social wasps (Silveira 2002; Somavilla et ...western Amazon (which includes parts ...
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Characterization of active and total fungal communities in the atmosphere over the Amazon rainforest
... Abstract. Fungi are ubiquitous in the atmosphere and may play an important role in atmospheric processes. We inves- tigated the composition and diversity of fungal communities over the Amazon rainforest ...
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Neisseria meningitidis: A Neglected Cause of Infectious Haemorrhagic Fever in the Amazon Rainforest
... The Amazon is a malaria-endemic area and bacterial infections often complicate severe malaria. This is an additional problem to epidemiological surveillance because cerebral malaria is not easily distinguishable ...
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GUARDIANS OF AN ENORMOUS CARBON STOCK – THE AMAZON RAINFOREST AND ITS TRADITIONAL POPULATIONS BOUND BY THE SUSTAINABILITY DISPOSITIF
... In this section we present the analyses of the press articles, revealing the power of debates articulating the Amazon forest and traditional populations to the webs of sustai- nability dispositif. In order to do ...
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T he Amazon rainforest is one of the most important topics of global
... The emotional appeal of the slogan, connects the ‘murdering’ of Indians to the destruction of the forest whilst raising a sense of moral responsibility in the British consumer. It creates a story of victims and villains ...
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Geochemical Signature of Amazon Tropical Rainforest Soils
... the Amazon Basin has been a challenge largely because most study sites have been at the edge of the basin and it is difficult to get samples in such a ...general, Amazon rainforest soils are more ...
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BACTERIA DIVERSITY AND MICROBIAL BIOMASS IN FOREST, PASTURE AND FALLOW SOILS IN THE SOUTHWESTERN AMAZON BASIN
... that Amazon tropical forest soils contain high microbial ...of Amazon rainforest for pasture affects: (1) the diversity of the Bacteria domain evaluated by Polymerase Chain Reaction and Denaturing ...
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Interespecific variation in the composition of volatile oils from the leaves of Swietenia macrophylla King (Meliaceae)
... The volatile oils from leaves of ive Brazilian specimens of Swietenia macrophylla King (Meliaceae) collected in three different Amazon Rainforest Conservation Areas in the States of Mato Grosso, Pará, and ...
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Características e prevalência do pterígio em comunidades ribeirinhas dos Rios Solimões e Japurá localizados na Amazônia Brasileira.
... Purpose: To evaluate the prevalence and characteristics of pterygium in small communities along the Solimões and Japurá rivers, State of Amazonas, Brazil. Design: cross-sectional study. Methods: This study was carried ...
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Status report on malaria programs in the Americas (Based on 2002 data)
... and Amazon sub ...the Amazon rainforest. Known as the Amazon Malaria Initiative, USAID will provide approximately 2 million dollars annually to the sub ...
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Contribution of the institutions in the Northern region of Brazil to the development of plant cultivars and their impact on agriculture
... Camu-camu (Myrciaria dubia (Kunth) McVaugh) The camu-camu fruit, rich in vitamin C, is a species na- tive to the Amazon, growing in natural or wild state along most rivers, lakes and in looded forests of the ...
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Rev. Bras. Hist. vol.34 número67 en a19v34n67
... the Amazon emerged as a strategic location for the supply of this raw ...the Amazon concentrates on the political, cultural, and environ- mental analysis of the region, accompanied by the production of ...
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Nova espécie do gênero Galissus Dupont (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) e chave para identificação das espécies.
... Veragua Rainforest Reserve, Limón; crrc, Coleção Rolando Ramírez Campos, Heredia; MIucr, Museo de Insectos, Centro de Investigacio- nes en Protección de Cultivos, Escuela de Agronomía, Universidad de Costa Rica, ...
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