[PDF] Top 20 Land use systems in the Amazon: Impacts on ant biodiversity

... to the dynamic changes that are leading to the expansion of the agricultural frontier in the Amazon, another threat to biodiversity in the region is ... See full document

... eversoncezar@yahoo.com.br, The increasing use of natural resources in a disor- derly way has been demanding constant monitoring and ecological-economic ...zoning. The knowledge on ... See full document

... into the ribeirinhos way of using natural resources. This is understood as the manifestation of a conservation ethic that is grounded in a long-standing process of co-evolution of man and ... See full document

... extracted the ants with Winkler extractors during 48h. We found 103 ant species from 29 genera and eight ...subfamilies. The fi ve richest genera were Pheidole (19 species), Solenopsis (8), ... See full document

... of the tropical forests of the Amazon basin between the 1990s and 2090s and ascribed this to be the major driver of the decreas- ing isoprene ...of the Amazon ... See full document

... considering the in- creased focus on more economic and environ- mental sustainable farm systems, there is an increased interest in building models to improve the whole-farm ... See full document

... consensus in Earth systems science that global temperatures are increasing and will continue to do so over the next century, leading to changes in global climate regimes (IPCC, 2014; Nunes ... See full document

... of the most impacting land uses are farming and livestock breeding, due to water and air pollution and consequent eutrophication on soils and water bodies, thereby reducing the health and ... See full document

... policy impacts on agriculture and ...of the integrated functionality of a linear programming model to estimate the Positive Mathematical Program- ming production cost function coef ficients of ... See full document

... species in Sorghum and Coleus trap cultures that were not previously present in field sampling of apple ...from the field to microcosms in order to complement their diversity estimates based ... See full document

... ahead, land use management decisions rely more often on process-based models to provide information about climate change impacts on the productivity of land use ... See full document

... of the most biodiverse biomes, the Amazon has a featured role in the discovery of new species of plants, animals and microorganisms, which may be important for the functionality ... See full document

... species, the impact of land use change is even more clear (Figure ...from the major locations along the Madeira River. The results show that notwithstanding the smaller ... See full document

... based on our research priorities, cost-effectiveness and the need to col- lect a large number of representative samples [34] (table ...terrestrial biodiversity focused on trees and lianas, ... See full document

... particularly the movement of residential and commercial land use to rural areas at the periphery of metropolitan areas, has long been considered as a sign of regional economic vitality (Yuan ... See full document

... found the abundance and composition of predators to be more related to crop (Wheat, pea, sugar beet, potato, onion and carrot) than to farming system, Clough et ...activity-density in organic field, but ... See full document

... has the potential to make a major contribution to the mitigation of climate change, and enhancement of plant ...However, in order for biochar to fulfill this promise, the industry and ... See full document

... In the AGFORWARD project agroforestry is defined as “the practice of deliberately integrating woody vegetation (trees or shrubs) with crop and/or animal systems to benefit from the ... See full document

... to the National Guide for Collecting and Preservation of Samples (ANA e CETESB, 2011) and were analyzed in the field and in the ...laboratory. The field determinations were ... See full document

... regions in Europe by ...and the value of EGS (Ecosystem Goods and Services), but the direction of this relationship depended on the type of EGS under ...services. The regional ... See full document