Amazonian forest
Propagação vegetativa de espécies florestais da Amazônia/Vegetative propagation of Amazonian forest species
... The possibility of using native species on a larger scale, both for commercial purposes and for revegetation of degraded areas depends on the availability of seeds as well as the mastery of quality seedling production ...
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Scalar turbulent behavior in the roughness sublayer of an Amazonian forest
... Abstract. An important current problem in micrometeorol- ogy is the characterization of turbulence in the roughness sublayer (RSL), where most of the measurements above tall forests are made. There, scalar turbulent ...
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Anopheles darlingi bionomics and transmission of Plasmodium falciparum, Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium malariae in Amerindian villages of the Upper-Maroni Amazonian forest, French Guiana
... Study site - This study was implemented in three Am- erindian villages, namely Twenké (3°23’N, 54°03’W), Taluène (3°22’N, 54°02’W) and Cayodé (3°23’N, 53°55’W), located in the Amazonian forest, in the Up- ...
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A 15-year post evaluation of the fire effects on ant community in an area of Amazonian forest
... rain forest (Bacaba Plateau) burned 15-years ago and compare our data with the data of primary unburned ...damaged forest studied supports an intermediate richness of ants when compared to a primary ...
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Repositório Institucional da UFPA: Species composition and reproductive modes of anurans from a transitional Amazonian forest, Brazil
... The authors are grateful to O. Portela and A. Portela, A. Pedroso (Bibal), J. Serrão (Donga), Darlison and Sandro for their invaluable assistance in the field, to O. Carvalho Jr and W. Silva of IPAM (Institute for ...
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THE IMPORTANCE OF FOREST DISTURBANCE FOR THE RECRUIT- MENT OF THE LARGE ARBORESCENT PALM ATTALEA MARIPA IN A SEASONALLY-DRY AMAZONIAN FOREST
... the forest interior, waiting for a gap to develop further the size of their leaves and the diameter of their subterraneous stem, unless killed by fallen trunks and branches or ...
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Allometric equations for total, above- and below- ground biomass and carbon of the Amazonian forest type known as campinarana
... Amazon forest below-ground biomass is equivalent to 20% of the above- ground biomass (Gibbs et ...dense forest (Silva 2007). Both forest types occur in the same area and share the same temperature ...
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The thecamoebae (Protozoa, Rhizopoda) of small Amazonian forest streams and their possible use as indicator organisms for waterquality (1)
... and quantitative analysis indicate that spectrum and frequency of morphotypes, as well as general density, are dependent on water quality, and that, therefore, popula[r] ...
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Diet and Prey Availability of Terrestrial Insectivorous Birds Prone to Extinction in Amazonian Forest Fragments
... in forest fragments, including physiological sensitivity to microclimatic changes, habitat specificity, dispersal ability, and food scarcity (Sekercioglu et ...because forest fragmentation generally alters ...
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Arthropod responses to the experimental isolation of Amazonian forest fragments
... to forest deforestation and fragmentation based on studies conducted at the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project (BDFFP), located in central ...in forest area, includ- ing altered ...
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Composition and richness of Odonata (Insecta) in streams with different levels of conservation in a Cerrado-Amazonian Forest ecotone
... Figura 4 - Riqueza estimada de espécies ( jackknife de primeira ordem) por níveis de conservação dos ambientes amostrados da Bacia do Rio Suiá-Missu, MT, Brasil: A) para ordem Odonat[r] ...
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ALM SPECIES IN CENTRAL AMAZONIAN FOREST
... in amazonian fragments) Forest fragmentation may affect the abundance and distribution of ...eight forest fragments (three of 1-, three of 10- and two of 100-ha), in three sites (Dimona, Porto Alegre ...
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Spatial distribution and functional significance of leaf lamina shape in Amazonian forest trees
... mature forest with natural gap-phase dynamics and a canopy dominated by non-pioneer species and, furthermore, none of the plots is believed to have experienced any recent human- caused ...
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Response of frugivorous primates to changes in fruit supply in a northern Amazonian forest
... Relatively large fruit supplies are followed by sharp declines at MES, resulting in little fruit available during relatively long periods (Mendes Pontes, 2000; Nunes, 1998; this study). When food is scarce, animals may ...
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A trans-Amazonian screening of mtDNA reveals deep intraspecific divergence in forest birds and suggests a vast underestimation of species diversity.
... Our study reveals consistently large values of intraspecific divergence across the northern Amazon in 40 species of forest understory birds. The presence of clear genetic separation between trans-Amazonian ...
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SYSTEMATICS, MORPHOLOGY AND PHYSIOLOGY
... the Amazonian Forest; Wittmann et ...Atlantic Forest of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil; Rebêlo & Garófalo (1991, 1997), for the semi- deciduous Atlantic Forest of northeastern ...
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MATERIAL AND METHODS Study area
... Deforestation has negative impacts on diversity and community patterns of several taxa. In the eastern Amazon, where much deforestation is predicted for the coming years, forests patches may be essential to maintain the ...
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Physical, chemical, and biological properties of soil under soybean cultivation and at an adjacent rainforest in Amazonia
... in Amazonian forest and pastures showed that, although the pasture soils had more organic C and N in the soil and the microbial biomass, mineralization of C and N during the dry season was significantly ...
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Leaf-litter amount as a factor in the structure of a ponerine ants community (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Ponerinae) in an eastern Amazonian rainforest, Brazil
... humid forest areas, but may be found in dry forest with seasonal rainfall (Lattke, 2003; Quiroz-Robledo & Valenzuela-González ...eastern Amazonian forest ...
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... A survey of Central Amazonian forest frog species and an. analysis of structural and behavioural features of their vocalizations.[r] ...
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