The onset of grasses in the Amazon drainage basin, evidence from the fossil record [PDF]
, 2020 Poaceae (the grass family) originated in the Cretaceous, but first dominate the palynological records of the Amazon drainage basin (ADB) in the Neogene (23 to 2.5 million years ago (Ma)).
Hoorn, Carina, Kirschner, Judith A.
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Malaria Journal, 2020 Background The high incidence of Plasmodium vivax infections associated with clinical severity and the emergence of chloroquine (CQ) resistance has posed a challenge to control efforts aimed at eliminating this disease.
Fredy E. Villena +8 more
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Isopods Cymothoidae ectoparasites of fish from the Amazon
Revista Brasileira de Parasitologia Veterinária, 2020 Most freshwater species of Cymothoidae are distributed in South America. They have mainly been recorded in the eastern and western regions of the Amazon River basin.
Lucena Rocha Virgilio +5 more
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Silicate rock weathering and atmospheric/soil CO2 uptake in the Amazon basin estimated from river water geochemistry: seasonal and spatial variations [PDF]
, 2003 Using the data of the CAMREX project (1982–1984) on the water geochemistry of the Amazon river and its main tributaries, it was possible to assess the silicate rock weathering processes and the associated consumption of atmospheric/soil CO2, taking into
Mortatti, Jefferson, Probst, Jean-Luc
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Ancient Amazonian populations left lasting impacts on forest structure [PDF]
, 2017 Amazonia contains a vast expanse of contiguous tropical forest and is influential in global carbon and hydrological cycles. Whether ancient Amazonia was highly disturbed or modestly impacted, and how ancient disturbances have shaped current forest ...
Braswell, Bobby H. +8 more
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Spatial-temporal variation of dissolved inorganic material in the Amazon basin [PDF]
Acta Amazonica, 2015 The Amazon River basin is important in the contribution of dissolved material to oceans (4% worldwide). The aim of this work was to study the spatial and the temporal variability of dissolved inorganic materials in the main rivers of the Amazon basin ...
Liz Stefanny Hidalgo SÁNCHEZ +4 more
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Large emissions from floodplain trees close the Amazon methane budget [PDF]
, 2017 Wetlands are the largest global source of atmospheric methane (CH4), a potent greenhouse gas. However, methane emission inventories from the Amazon floodplain, the largest natural geographic source of CH4 in the tropics, consistently underestimate the ...
A Siegenthaler +46 more
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What drives interannual variation in tree ring oxygen isotopes in the Amazon? [PDF]
, 2016 Oxygen isotope ratios in tree rings (δ18OTR) from northern Bolivia record local precipitation δ18O and correlate strongly with Amazon basin-wide rainfall.
Arnold, SR +7 more
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Major changes in glacial and Holocene terrestrial temperatures and sources of organic carbon recorded in the Amazon fan by tetraether lipids [PDF]
, 2010 The Amazon basin is a major component of the global carbon and hydrological cycles, a significant natural source of methane, and home to remarkable biodiversity and endemism.
Bendle, JA +8 more
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Patents and Competition in the Automobile Industry [PDF]
, 1948 Methane (CH4) fluxes from world rivers are still poorly constrained, with measurements restricted mainly to temperate climates. Additional river flux measurements, including spatio-temporal studies, are important to refine extrapolations.
Ballester, Maria V. R. +5 more
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