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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.
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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 ...
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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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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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Impermanence in the Context of the Amazon Rainforest
The International Journal of the Image, 2022Ayana Saito Mira de Carvalho +1 more
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ICTs for health in the Amazon rainforest
2009Teoría de la Señal y ...
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The longevity and resilience of the Amazon rainforest
2005AbstractThis chapter highlights and explains the impressive story of the persistence of the Amazonian rainforest throughout the Cenozoic. Palaeoclimate and palaeoecological records suggest that the Amazon rainforest originated in the late Cretaceous and has been a permanent feature of South America for at least the last 55 million years.
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Cattle ranching in the Amazon rainforest
2003Depuis les années 1960, le troupeau bovin du bassin amazonien est passé de 5 millions à plus de 70 à 80 millions de têtes. Près de 15% de la forêt amazonienne a été remplacée et près de 80% des superficies déboisées ont été couvertes de pâturages (environ 900 000 km').
Da Veiga, Jonas Bastos +3 more
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