[PDF] Top 20 Human pressure on the Brazilian Amazon forest

... incipient human pressure are valuable for conservation—due to relatively low intensity of use and occupation—it will be financially and politically costly to establish protected areas in these zones given ... See full document

... queries on ‘combating illicit environmental activities’ it was highly suggestive to note that we received no responses ...compliance, the agencies responsible for ‘monitoring forest policies’ notably ... See full document

... that the presence of shade and the proximity to human dwellings (P < ...were the best predictors for explaining the occurrence of ...with the proximity to dwellings, but not ... See full document

... reflects the patterns of resource ...along the flooded rivers and extend inland to include lakes or ...to the four aforementioned ...commons on which all owners may graze their ...as ... See full document

... in the Brazilian Amazon and are responsible for high forest ...and the spatiotemporal extension of forests impacted by logging activities between 2003 and 2014 in portions of the ... See full document

... that the environmental het- erogeneity of the forest through its forest structure components at the local and regional levels (large spatial scale) can be de- terminants to explain ... See full document

... 2 – Relationship between positive rabies cases on bovine livestock and total bovine livestock from 1999 to 2004 in the state of Pará, Brazilian Amazon... Most victims reported in 2004, f[r] ... See full document

... based on diet analysis allow the drawing of inferences about the feeding tactic(s) used by the species, direct observation of foraging behavior is usually the safest and most efficient ... See full document

... based on diet analysis allow the drawing of inferences about the feeding tactic(s) used by the species, direct observation of foraging behavior is usually the safest and most efficient ... See full document

... tropical forest stands at different successional ...of the ecosystems there is a high correlation between the height and the AGB, DBH and basal area (BA) ( Feldpausch et ...of the top ... See full document

... periods on forest conservation were simulated for settlement projects in the Brazilian Amazon that produce a fish-bone pattern of occupation and where slash-and-burn agriculture is ... See full document

... wider forest expansion and together with cattle farming, which were introduced at around 170 cal yr BP (1780 AD) in the region, also maintain the current sharp boundaries between savanna and forests ... See full document

... 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 ... See full document

... in the Brazilian Amazon). A survey of Habenaria in the Amazon region in northern Brazil was ...for the region. The majority of the species occur in savannah ... See full document

... conducted on a global scale and use expensive methods. In the present study, we assess whether the reported governance of Amazonian municipalities is related to reductions in ...0.82). The ... See full document

... primary forest cover at both transects and catchment scales had positive influence species ...effect on present diversity. At transect scale, forest transects were not better explained than ... See full document

... all Brazilian biomes, not only in the ...of the immediate potential each Brazilian biome presents, so as to maximize the reduction of emissions and promote activities to support ... See full document

... in forest plantations, since the tree crown is responsible for reducing the direct impact of raindrops and the direct incidence of solar radiation on the soil (Ignácio et ...to ... See full document

... since the records associated with each individual cadaver were nowhere to be found due to changes of the museum location over the ...as the total number of individuals originally donated to ... See full document

... Amazonia, the average precipitation and temperature are high. Thus, the leaf abscission performed by the deciduous species to avoid high rates of transpiration in higher temperature periods probably ... See full document