Novel Chronic Anaplasmosis in Splenectomized Patient, Amazon Rainforest [PDF]
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2022 We report a case of unusual human anaplasmosis in the Amazon rainforest of French Guiana. Molecular typing demonstrated that the pathogen is a novel Anaplasma species, distinct to all known species, and more genetically related to recently described ...
Olivier Duron +12 more
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Drought Sensitivity of the Amazon Rainforest [PDF]
Science, 2009 Amazon forests are a key but poorly understood component of the global carbon cycle. If, as anticipated, they dry this century, they might accelerate climate change through carbon losses and changed surface energy balances. We used records from multiple long-term monitoring plots across Amazonia to assess forest responses to the intense ...
Oliver L Phillips +2 more
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Amazon rainforest adjusts to long-term experimental drought. [PDF]
Nat Ecol EvolAbstract Drought-induced mortality is expected to cause substantial biomass loss in the Amazon basin. However, rainforest responses to prolonged drought are largely unknown. Here, we demonstrate that an Amazonian rainforest plot subjected to more than two decades of large-scale experimental drought reached eco-hydrological stability.
Sanchez-Martinez P +13 more
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Amazon rainforest photosynthesis increases in response to atmospheric dryness. [PDF]
Sci Adv, 2020 Models show that increasing air dryness reduces photosynthesis in the Amazon rainforest, while observations show the opposite.
Green JK +4 more
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Recurrent droughts increase risk of cascading tipping events by outpacing adaptive capacities in the Amazon rainforest. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2022 Significance The Amazon rainforest is among the Earth’s climate tipping elements. Under ongoing global warming, the frequency of severe droughts such as in 2005 and 2010 is projected to increase strongly, up to the point where these droughts may become ...
Wunderling N +7 more
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Haplocauda, a New Genus of Fireflies Endemic to the Amazon Rainforest (Coleoptera: Lampyridae). [PDF]
Insects, 2022 Simple Summary The Amazon Rainforest is still a frontier in the study of insect biodiversity, housing several species yet to be described and studied.
Silveira LFLD +3 more
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Legacies of Indigenous land use and cultural burning in the Bolivian Amazon rainforest ecotone. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2022 The southwestern Amazon Rainforest Ecotone (ARE) is the transitional landscape between the tropical forest and seasonally flooded savannahs of the Bolivian Llanos de Moxos.
Maezumi SY +10 more
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Detection of Anaplasma and Ehrlichia bacteria in humans, wildlife, and ticks in the Amazon rainforest. [PDF]
Nat CommunTick-borne bacteria of the genera Ehrlichia and Anaplasma cause several emerging human infectious diseases worldwide. In this study, we conduct an extensive survey for Ehrlichia and Anaplasma infections in the rainforests of the Amazon biome of French ...
Buysse M +11 more
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Water deficit and storm disturbances co-regulate Amazon rainforest seasonality. [PDF]
Sci AdvCanopy leaf abundance of Amazon rainforests increases in the dry season but decreases in the wet season, contrary to earlier expectations of water stress adversely affecting plant functions.
Lian X, Morfopoulos C, Gentine P.
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The economic value of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest ecosystem services: A meta-analysis of the Brazilian literature. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2022 The main objective of this study is to assess the economic value of the Brazilian Amazon’s ecosystem services accruing to Brazilians based on a meta-analysis of the Brazilian valuation literature.
Brouwer R, Pinto R, Dugstad A, Navrud S.
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