Increased floodplain inundation in the Amazon since 1980 [PDF]
Environmental Research Letters, 2023 Extensive floodplains throughout the Amazon basin support important ecosystem services and influence global water and carbon cycles. A recent change in the hydroclimatic regime of the region, with increased rainfall in the northern portions of the basin,
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Phenotypic, physicochemical, sensory, and functional attributes of cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.) from Brazilian Amazonian floodplain and upland ecosystems. [PDF]
J Sci Food AgricAbstract BACKGROUND Cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.) from the Brazilian Amazon plays an important role in national production. While most cocoa is cultivated in upland systems, floodplain ecosystems represent a traditional and distinct production environment that may influence bean composition and quality.
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Seasonality and assemblages of non-passeriform waterbirds in várzea lakes on the lower Amazonas River, Santarém, Pará, Brazil [PDF]
Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2023 Amazonian várzeas are annually flooded for at least five months, which influences the occurence of waterbirds. This study investigates the species richness and composition, and individual abundance of waterbird assemblages in 10 várzea lakes on the lower
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Modeling surface water dynamics in the Amazon Basin using MOSART-Inundation v1.0: impacts of geomorphological parameters and river flow representation [PDF]
Geoscientific Model Development, 2017 In the Amazon Basin, floodplain inundation is a key component of surface water dynamics and plays an important role in water, energy and carbon cycles. The Model for Scale Adaptive River Transport (MOSART) was extended with a macroscale inundation scheme
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Reconstructing historical forest cover change in the Lower Amazon floodplains using the LandTrendr algorithm [PDF]
Acta Amazonica, 2016 The Amazon várzeas are an important component of the Amazon biome, but anthropic and climatic impacts have been leading to forest loss and interruption of essential ecosystem functions and services.
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Eternal vigilance on an Amazon floodplain [PDF]
Current Biology, 2002 Deep and puzzling evolutionary questions are still being raised by the unfashionable work of systematic biologists. James S. Albert describes some such work and argues why we need much more of it in the face of unprecedented loss of species through human activity.
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Methane emissions from floodplains in the Amazon Basin: challenges in developing a process-based model for global applications [PDF]
Biogeosciences, 2014 Tropical wetlands are estimated to represent about 50% of the natural wetland methane (CH4) emissions and explain a large fraction of the observed CH4 variability on timescales ranging from glacial–interglacial cycles to the currently observed year-to ...
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PLoS ONE, 2016 This paper aims to describe the spatial-temporal variability in catch of the main fishery resources of the Amazon River and floodplain lakes of the Lower Amazon, as well as relating the Catch per Unit of Effort with anomalies of some of the Amazon River,
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Richness, abundance and microhabitat use by Ardeidae (Aves: Pelecaniformes) during one seasonal cycle in the floodplain lakesof the lower Amazon River [PDF]
Zoologia (Curitiba), 2019 The Amazon floodplains become periodically submerged as result of seasonal changes in the water levels throughout the year. These changes influence the availability of microhabitats and consequently the abundance of organisms in these ecosystems. In this
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Historic carbon burial spike in an Amazon floodplain lake linked to riparian deforestation near Santarém, Brazil [PDF]
Biogeosciences, 2018 Forests along the Amazon Basin produce significant quantities of organic material, a portion of which is deposited in floodplain lakes. Deforestation in the watershed may then have potentially important effects on the carbon fluxes.
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