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Unpicking the rhythms of the Amazon rainforest
Nature, 2021PhD student James Ball maps tree trunks to better understand a crucial ecosystem and its response to climate change. PhD student James Ball maps tree trunks to better understand a crucial ecosystem and its response to climate change.
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Amazon rainforest: biodiversity and biopiracy
BMJ, 2005The Amazon rainforest is home to a flora with an enormous and vastly unexplored pharmacological potential.
Klaus Morales dos Santos +1 more
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Climatic legacy effects on the drought response of the Amazon rainforest
Global Change Biology, 2022AbstractExtreme precipitation and drought events are predicted to become more intense and more frequent over the Amazon rainforest. Because changes in forest dynamics could prompt strong feedback loops to the global climate, it is of crucial importance to gain insight into the response of tropical forests to these recurring extreme climatic events ...
Johanna Van Passel +6 more
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Geochemistry Signatures of Mercury in Soils of the Amazon Rainforest Biome
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2021Mercury (Hg) toxicity in soils depends on Hg species and other physical and chemical attributes, as selenium (Se) hotspots in soils, particularly relevant in Amazonian soils. The study of Hg species and their relations in representative locations of the Amazon rainforest biome is critical for assessing the potential risks of Hg in this environment ...
Francielle R.D. Lima +11 more
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“Dr Zhivago” in the Amazon rainforest
Latinskaia Amerika, 2022The author of the article makes an attempt to verify the veracity of the story set out by Yevgeny Yevtushenko in his poem "Dora Franco". It is about a copy of Doctor Zhivago, which the poet discovered in a small library in the town of Leticia in the Amazon part of Colombia in 1968.
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Medicinal Bioprospecting of the Amazon Rainforest: A Modern Eldorado?
Trends in Biotechnology, 2016Ignorant of the New World, Europeans believed in El Dorado, a hidden city of immense wealth in gold. Many consider the Amazonian forest to be a medicinal treasure chest and potentially the largest drug dispensary in the world. Yet, the quest to obtain drugs from indigenous tropical plants remains elusive.
Skirycz, A. +4 more
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Are there lightning Fires in the Amazon Rainforest?
Tropical rainforests have exceptionally high biodiversity and store large amounts of carbon in biomass. However, large and frequent fires across tropical rainforests in the last decades threaten the ecosystem integrity of these ecosystems. The general belief is that fires in the Amazon rainforest are all human-ignited and that lightning fires do not ...Cunhui Zhang +3 more
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Atmospheric impact of sesquiterpenes in the Amazon rainforest
2020<p>Sesquiterpenes (C<sub>15</sub>H<sub>24</sub>) are highly reactive biogenic volatile organic compounds playing an important role in atmospheric chemistry. Once emitted from the Earth&#8217;s surface, primarily by vegetation, they are rapidly oxidized to ...
Nora Zannoni +6 more
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Valuation of Rainforest Preservation in the Amazon
2019Abstract Different ecosystem values of the Amazon rainforest are surveyed in economic terms. Spatial rainforest valuation is crucial for good forest management, such as where to put the most effort to stop illegal logging and forest fires, and which areas to designate as new nationally protected areas.
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AMAZON RAINFOREST AND INTERNATIONAL LAW
Journal of Southwest Jiaotong UniversityThis paper aims to analyze the effect of climate change on the principle of state sovereignty. This study examines the case of the Amazon rainforest, the ‘lungs’ of the earth, which has 60% of its land inside Brazil’s territory and provides a natural ecosystem that helps stabilize the world’s climate.
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