Historical deforestation drives strong rainfall decline across the southern Amazon basin [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsThe Amazon forest has recently experienced substantial human-induced loss of forest cover. However, the extent to which such historical deforestation has altered regional observed precipitation through inter-regional atmospheric moisture transport ...
Jiangpeng Cui +4 more
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Evapotranspiration seasonality across the Amazon Basin [PDF]
Earth System Dynamics, 2017 Evapotranspiration (ET) of Amazon forests is a main driver of regional climate patterns and an important indicator of ecosystem functioning. Despite its importance, the seasonal variability of ET over Amazon forests, and its relationship with ...
E. E. Maeda +6 more
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The export of African mineral dust across the Atlantic and its impact over the Amazon Basin [PDF]
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2023 The Amazon Basin is frequently influenced by transatlantic transport of African dust plumes during its wet season (January–April), which not only interrupts the near-pristine atmospheric condition in that season, but also provides nutrient inputs to the ...
X. Wang +23 more
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Biogeographic evidence supports the Old Amazon hypothesis for the formation of the Amazon fluvial system [PDF]
PeerJ, 2021 The Amazon has high biodiversity, which has been attributed to different geological events such as the formation of rivers. The Old and Young Amazon hypotheses have been proposed regarding the date of the formation of the Amazon basin.
Karen Méndez-Camacho +2 more
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Fires Drive Long-Term Environmental Degradation in the Amazon Basin
Remote Sensing, 2022 The Amazon Basin is undergoing extensive environmental degradation as a result of deforestation and the rising occurrence of fires. The degradation caused by fires is exacerbated by the occurrence of anomalously dry periods in the Amazon Basin.
Carlos Antonio da Silva Junior +15 more
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An explicit GIS-based river basin framework for aquatic ecosystem conservation in the Amazon [PDF]
Earth System Science Data, 2016 Despite large-scale infrastructure development, deforestation, mining and petroleum exploration in the Amazon Basin, relatively little attention has been paid to the management scale required for the protection of wetlands, fisheries and other aspects of
E. Venticinque +9 more
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Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2022 Key challenges to regionalization of methane fluxes in the Amazon basin are the large seasonal variation in inundated areas and habitats, the wide variety of aquatic ecosystems throughout the Amazon basin, and the variability in methane fluxes in time ...
John M. Melack +12 more
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Neotropical Ichthyology, 2021 The Hoplias malabaricus group encompasses six valid species and still is believed to harbors cryptic diversity. In this work, an integrative approach including morphological, DNA barcoding, and cytogenetic considerations was conducted to characterize a ...
Karen L. A. Guimarães +4 more
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Large and increasing methane emissions from eastern Amazonia derived from satellite data, 2010–2018 [PDF]
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2021 We use a global inverse model, satellite data and flask measurements to estimate methane (CH4) emissions from South America, Brazil and the basin of the Amazon River for the period 2010–2018.
C. Wilson +15 more
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Genetic diversity and structuring in the arapaima (Osteoglossiformes, Osteoglossidae) population reveal differences between the Amazon and the Tocantins-Araguaia basins [PDF]
Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2020 Arapaima is a widely-distributed fish of enormous economic importance in the Amazon region. In the present study, a total of 232 specimens were sampled, 121 from five sites in the Amazon basin and 111 from five sites in the Tocantins-Araguaia basin.
Fabrícia Nogueira +7 more
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