PLoS ONE, 2017 The Bolivian Amazon holds a complex configuration of people and forested landscapes in which communities hold secure tenure rights over a rich ecosystem offering a range of livelihood income opportunities.
Marlene Soriano +4 more
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La forêt guyanaise, entre valorisation et protection des ressources écosystémiques
VertigO, 2012 Forests in French Guiana form an extremely complex ecosystem and have a wealth of flora and fauna of great diversity. During a long time, the exploitation of resources inside and outside the ecosystem was insignificant and was never considered in a ...
André Calmont
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River logjams cause frequent large-scale forest die-off events in southwestern Amazonia [PDF]
Earth System Dynamics, 2017 This paper investigates the dynamics of logjam-induced floods and alluvial deposition in the Bolivian Amazon and the effects these have on forest disturbance and recovery cycles. It expands on previous work by Gullison et al.
U. Lombardo
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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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Ecological research in the Large Scale Biosphere Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia: A discussion of early results [PDF]
, 2004 The Large-scale Biosphere–Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia (LBA) is a multinational, interdisciplinary research program led by Brazil. Ecological studies in LBA focus on how tropical forest conversion, regrowth, and selective logging influence carbon ...
Alencar, Ane +20 more
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Forest Systems, 2023 Aim of study: This study evaluates the potential of the Google Earth Engine tool, supported by fine-scale information obtained by Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, to apply and characterize the dynamics of the successional stages of the Amazon Forest in the ...
Iací D. SANTOS-BRASIL +5 more
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Community based forest management plans in the Brazilian Amazon: current barriers threatening long term economic viability [PDF]
, 2011 Community-based forest management (CBFM) projects are often seen as an alternative to protect forest and at the same time to provide incomes for small landholders.
Drigo, Isabel +3 more
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Isotopic values of the Amazon headwaters in Peru: comparison of the wet upper Río Madre de Dios watershed with the dry Urubamba-Apurimac river system [PDF]
, 2012 RATIONALE: The Amazon River is a huge network of long tributaries, and little is known about the headwaters. Here we present a study of one wet tropical Amazon forest side, and one dry and cold Atiplano plateau, originating from the same cordillera.
Clima +35 more
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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.
Everton Hafemann FRAGAL +2 more
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Adjustment of Thinning Equations for Forest Management Area in the Western Amazon
Jurnal Sylva Lestari, 2023 Logging in the Amazon using reduced impact methods has high potential. However, one of the problems of forest management is an accurate estimation of the wood stock of a forest.
Aécio Silva Dos Santos +4 more
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