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Optimal selective logging regime and log landing location models: a case study in the Amazon forest [PDF]
Acta Amazonica, 2018 Reduced-impact logging is a well known practice applied in most sustainable forest management plans in the Amazon. Nevertheless, there are still ways to improve the operational planning process.
Paulo Henrique da SILVA +4 more
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Post-drought decline of the Amazon carbon sink [PDF]
, 2018 Amazon forests have experienced frequent and severe droughts in the past two decades. However, little is known about the large-scale legacy of droughts on carbon stocks and dynamics of forests.
Choi, Sungho +9 more
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Psyche: A Journal of Entomology, 2012 An experiment was conducted in a primary forest area of the Tropical Forest Experimental Station, 45 km from Manaus-Boa Vista Highway, in order to compare the insect fauna of the subfamily Scolytinae, in flight activity and on the ground.
Raimunda Liege Souza de Abreu +3 more
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Carbon Balance and Management, 2019 Background Brazilian Amazon forests contain a large stock of carbon that could be released into the atmosphere as a result of land use and cover change. To quantify the carbon stocks, Brazil has forest inventory plots from different sources, but they are
Graciela Tejada +4 more
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Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation, 2023 Habitat loss has major impacts on biodiversity. Yet, such impacts are not always linear, as there can be threshold values of habitat amount below which species become extirpated from human-modified landscapes (extinction thresholds).
Carmen Galán-Acedo +5 more
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Effects of forest fragmentation on the vertical stratification of neotropical bats [PDF]
, 2020 Vertical stratification is a key component of the biological complexity of rainforests. Understanding community- and species-level responses to disturbance across forest strata is paramount for evidence-based conservation and management.
Farneda, F +4 more
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Migration and forests in the Peruvian Amazon: A review [PDF]
, 2019 This paper reviews the literature on the links between migration and forests in the Peruvian Amazon. It highlights\ud not only the complexity of the migrant–forest interface in Peru but also the relative lack of research on these\ud dynamics. Historically, official narratives point to migrants as both the culprits of, and solutions to, the Amazon’s ...
Menton, Mary, Cronkleton, Peter
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Comparison of Cloud Cover Detection Algorithms on Sentinel–2 Images of the Amazon Tropical Forest
Remote Sensing, 2020 Tropical forests regulate the global water and carbon cycles and also host most of the world’s biodiversity. Despite their importance, they are hard to survey due to their location, extent, and particularly, their cloud coverage.
Alber Hamersson Sanchez +10 more
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Preliminary notes on the macrolichens of Serra do Cachimbo, northcentral Brazil [PDF]
Acta Amazonica, 1985 This paper reports on the April-May 1983 Projeto Flora expedition to Serra do cachimbo in northcentral Brazil, a phytogeographically poorly known area near the transition between the Amazon forest and the central Brazilian planalto. The objective of this
Lois Brako +2 more
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Urbanização e planejamento da Amazônia: diálogos com Bertha Becker
Confins, 2023 The aim is to understand the urbanization and planning of the Amazon based on the contributions of Bertha Becker. In the first moment, the urban phenomenon is considered from the Amazon in the books published in the 1980s and 1990s by Bertha Becker ...
Eudes Leopoldo
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