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Chagas disease in the Amazon Region
... The Amazon region corresponds to the eastern most part of Ecuador, and represents about one third of the country ...on the Andes foothills. The extremely high biological ...
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Palm species richness, latitudinal gradients, sampling effort, and deforestation in the Amazon region
... The Amazon region maintains a dynamic and suitable environmental heterogeneity for palms (Arecaceae) ...diversification. The Amazon has fewer threatened palm species than other Neotropical ...
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IMPACT OF RURAL SETTLEMENTS ON THE DEFORESTATION OF THE AMAZON
... have the social, economic and environmental relevance as the rural colonization projects in the ...In the history of these settlements is written the success or failure of thousands of ...
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BRAZILIAN FORESTRY LEGISLATION AND TO COMBAT DEFORESTATION GOVERNMENT POLICIES IN THE AMAZON (BRAZILIAN AMAZON)
... around the new forest code has been accompanied by changes in deforestation in the Amazon ...in the Amazon for centuries and intensified in the 80s and ...At the end of ...
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INTRAPOPULATIONAL GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION IN Anopheles (N.) darlingi ROOT, 1926 (DIPTERA: CULICIDAE) IN THE AMAZON REGION
... in the last few years due to the importance of this mosquito as the major vector of human malaria in Brazil, especially in the Amazon ...affect the transmission of this disease ...
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Identification key to the Gerridae (Insecta: Heteroptera: Gerromorpha) from the Amazon River floodplain, Brazil, with new records for the Brazilian Amazon
... possess the most striking color pattern as compared to other species of the genus, with most of the thorax dorsally flavous, in contrast with the black ...Besides the coloration, other ...
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Convective storm initiation in the Amazon
... of the precipitation during the summer months in continental areas comes from deep ...regions. The diurnal cycle represents an important element for determining where and when convective ...
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1 The amazon and its social representations
... Abstract: The Amazon has historically been represented as a terrestrial paradise in social ...into the social representations of environmental problems and the impacts of these problems on ...
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The Amazon and the Internationalisation of Chinese Companies
... in the com- pany Plena Transmissoras, in Brazil. Its presence in the Brazilian electricity sector has expanded considerably since ...was the winner, with a 51% interest in a con- sortium with ...
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CITIES IN THE AMAZON, TERRITORIAL SYSTEMS AND THE URBAN NETWORK
... using the territorial approach that can make good contributions towards thinking about the relational and procedural character in studies of cities in the ...Amazon. The system of ...
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Notes on the frog fauna of the Amazon Basin
... The association of most Amazonian frogs with one or the other major habitat type suggests thàt the species have evolved In either forests or open habitats, not [r] ...
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Neuroptera of the Amazon Basin
... contrarius in the British Museum (Na- tural History). pictus in Greifswald Museum, Greifswald, D.D.R. Present description based on types of H. HEAD: Occiput dark brown [r] ...
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A climatological study of the trospospheric circulation over the Amazon region
... (Fig. By considering the effects of continuity. divergence at h1gh leveis must be associated with rising air motion at mid-levels and con- vergence at low leveis. T[r] ...
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Malaria program in the amazon region of Brazil
... Vector control activities were ordered to be instituted around the international airport, hospitals and other selected areas, along with the applica- tion of insecticide at ultr[r] ...
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Variation and Its Distribution in Wild Cacao Populations from the Brazilian Amazon
... by the expansion of the agricultural frontier. For instance, in the last 20 years, approximately 550 thousand km 2 (14%) of the Amazon forest were ...that the cacao genepool be ...
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A short history of malaria in Brazil
... to the existence of perennially suitable larval habitats ...is the major South American malaria vector. This is the case with most of the territory outside the Amazon, compris- ...
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Estud. av. vol.20 número56
... is the first global factor of biodiversity destruction. The Atlantic Forest used to occupy an area of ...left. The same predatory cycle is being repeated in the ...on the reduction of ...
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Proliferation of hydroelectric dams in the Andean Amazon and implications for Andes-Amazon connectivity.
... in the Neotropics. This is especially true in the wet and rugged Andean Amazon, where regional governments are prioritizing new hydroelectric dams as the centerpiece of long-term energy ...
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