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Linked Brazilian Amazon Rainforest Data

Semantic Web, 2014
The Linked Brazilian Amazon Rainforest Data contains observations about deforestation of rainforests and related things such as rivers, road networks, population, amount of cattle, and market prices of agricultural products. The Linked Data approach offers thus to combine ecological, economical and social dimensions together.
Kauppinen, Tomi   +5 more
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Amazon rainforest: biodiversity and biopiracy

BMJ, 2005
The 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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Soil microbes under threat in the Amazon Rainforest

Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2023
Soil microorganisms are sensitive indicators of land-use and climate change in the Amazon, revealing shifts in important processes such as greenhouse gas (GHG) production, but they have been overlooked in conservation and management initiatives. Integrating soil biodiversity with other disciplines while expanding sampling efforts and targeted microbial
Andressa M. Venturini   +6 more
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Patents on Periphery of the Amazon Rainforest

Recent Patents on Food, Nutrition & Agriculturee, 2009
In the humid tropics, on the edges of the Amazon forest, the technological challenges to establishing and maintaining productive and sustainable agricultural systems have yet to be overcome. The groups involved in agriculture in the north of Brazil still engage in the practice of slash and burn in order to prepare and fertilize the soil.
Emanoel G, de Moura   +4 more
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Optimal Environmental Targeting in the Amazon Rainforest

The Review of Economic Studies, 2022
Abstract This article sets out a data-driven approach for targeting environmental policies optimally in order to combat deforestation. We focus on the Amazon, the world’s most extensive rainforest, where Brazil’s federal government issued a “Priority List” of municipalities in 2008—a blacklist to be targeted with more intense ...
Juliano Assunção   +3 more
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“Dr Zhivago” in the Amazon rainforest

Latinskaia Amerika, 2022
The 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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Unpicking the rhythms of the Amazon rainforest

Nature, 2021
PhD 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 AND INTERNATIONAL LAW

Journal of Southwest Jiaotong University
This 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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Amazon rainforest faces existential climate risk

Emerald Expert Briefings
Significance The situation, which began in northern regions, quickly spread, affecting the entire basin by September. Since January, large areas of the basin have been in a state of ‘exceptional’ meteorological and agricultural drought -- a condition that is not unprecedented, but which has become more common in recent ...
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