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The Amazon rainforest plays an important role in the global carbon cycle. However, due to its structural complexity, current estimates of its carbon dynamics are very imprecise.
Luise Bauer, Nikolai Knapp, Rico Fischer
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Checklist of Amazonian gasteroid fungi (Agaricomycetidae, Phallomycetidae, Basidiomycota) [PDF]
The Amazon rainforest is the largest tropical rainforest in the world, with high biodiversity of organisms. Despite the increasing knowledge about fungal diversity in the last few years, many fungal taxa, including gasteroid clades, are still poorly ...
Nathalia Mendonça de ASSIS +4 more
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Observations and models suggest that the Amazon rainforest might transition to a savanna-like state in response to anthropogenic climate and land use change.
Da Nian +6 more
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Chagas Disease in Pregnant Women in the Peruvian Amazon Basin. Cross-Sectional Study
Aims: To assess the prevalence of Chagas disease in pregnant women in Iquitos City, Peru.Material and Methods: Cross-sectional survey in 300 pregnant women in Iquitos (Peru) from 1 May 2019 to 15 June 2019.
José-Manuel Ramos-Rincón +12 more
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Chillcottomyia Saigusa new to Europe (Diptera, Empidoidea, Hybotidae) [PDF]
A new species of Chillcottomyia Saigusa, 1986 is described from Portugal, C. ovaticornis sp. nov. This species represents the first record of Chillcottomyia from Europe.
Bradley J. Sinclair +2 more
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New records of Pelecinus polyturator (Drury) (Hymenoptera: Proctotrupoidea: Pelecinidae) for Brazil
Species of Pelecinidae are very uncommonly collected in Brazil, despite they are one of the largest and most remarkable species of Hymenoptera. Here in, we report new records of Pelecinus polyturator (Drury, 1773) for Acre, Maranhão (Amazon rainforest ...
Ana F. A. Sousa +3 more
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Spatial Interpolation of Air Pollutant and Meteorological Variables in Central Amazonia
The Amazon Rainforest is highlighted by the global community both for its extensive vegetation cover that constantly suffers the effects of anthropic action and for its substantial biodiversity. This dataset presents data of meteorological variables from
Renato Okabayashi Miyaji +6 more
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We examined ice-nucleating particles (INPs) in the plumes of the Tocantins and Amazon rivers, which drain watersheds with different proportions of degraded land.
Annika Einbock +3 more
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Acanthosyris annonagustata C.Ulloa & P.Jørg. (Santalaceae), newly recorded for the flora of Peru [PDF]
We report Acanthosyris annonagustata (Santalaceae) for the flora of Peru, from an Amazon rainforest site in Madre de Dios Department. We describe the species using leaf and fruit morphological traits from field observations and botanical vouchers, and we
Jean Paúl Latorre-Farfán, Varun Swamy
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Acid rain in an Amazon rainforest [PDF]
Acid rain is reported from the Amazon territory of Venezuela. The volume weighted average pHwas 4.7 for 70 storms sampled from January 1979 through February 1980. At this location,remote from point sources of industrial pollution, acid rain might result from naturalbiogeochemical processes in the rainforest, from global atmospheric pollution, or from ...
Bruce Haines +3 more
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