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Ecological Entomology, EarlyView.Species co‐occurrences rely on their ability to explore similar or distinct available resources, and possible niche overlap can prevent their presence and establishment in a given site Damselflies of the Calopterygidae family demonstrated negative co‐occurrences in streams inside and outside PAs, highlighting that their ecological similarity is ...
Joás Silva Brito +13 more
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Not so deep in the rainforest: two new species of Anastrepha (Diptera, Tephritidae) and a pictorial key to species from Amazonas state, Brazil [PDF]
ZooKeysTwo new species, Anastrepha dorsidentata Uramoto, Zucchi, Araújo & Savaris and A. norrbomi Uramoto, Zucchi, Araújo & Savaris, from a fragment of the Amazon Rainforest in the city of Manaus, state of Amazonas, Brazil, are described and ...
Keiko Uramoto +5 more
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Extractive Reserves: Building Natural Assets in the Brazilian Amazon [PDF]
In the Amazon rainforest, Brazil's rubber tappers were the first social group to challenge the predatory development model that is threatening ecological disaster there.
Anthony Hall
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State Integration and Violence at the Margins: The Logic of Police Raids in Rio de Janeiro's Favelas
The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates police raids in Rio de Janeiro's favelas through a property rights framework, exploring their organisational structure, motivations and implications. Using data from police reports, academic studies, NGOs and news sources, it examines why and how the state intervenes in these contested spaces.
Joseph Bouchard
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The Manaus industrial hub and the preservation of the standing amazon rainforest
, 2023 Michele Lins Aracaty e Silva
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Stable isotope data indicate origins of mislabelled historical bird specimens
Ibis, EarlyView.Natural history specimens provide valuable insights across diverse research fields, but those needing more accurate metadata have limited scientific value. We applied stable isotope analysis to investigate the origin of 19th century Atlantic Forest bird specimens attributed to the northeastern Brazilian state of Pernambuco, which are the only records ...
Rafael Dantas Lima +4 more
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Height-diameter allometry of tropical forest trees [PDF]
, 2011 Tropical tree height-diameter (H:D) relationships may vary by forest type and region making large-scale estimates of above-ground biomass subject to bias if they ignore these differences in stem allometry.
Affum-Baffoe, K. +23 more
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Insect Conservation and Diversity, EarlyView.Habitat transformation in Amazon due to agriculture expansion impairs Melolonthidae diversity. Assemblage response towards habitat transformation are group‐dependent. Although highly disturbed, Amazon arc of deforestation region dwells sensitive insect assemblages. Abstract Although the Amazon provides crucial goods and ecosystem services for humanity,
Kleyton Rezende Ferreira +4 more
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Loss of Amazon rainforest resilience since the early 2000s
, 2021 Chris A. Boulton +2 more
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The Legacy of Policy Inaction in Climate‐Growth Models
International Economic Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT To better understand the structure and core mechanisms of a broad class of climate‐growth models, we study a simplified version of the dynamic integrated model of climate and the economy (DICE) through the lens of growth theory. We analytically show that this model features a continuum of saddle‐point stable steady states.
Thomas Steger, Timo Trimborn
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