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Chillcottomyia Saigusa new to Europe (Diptera, Empidoidea, Hybotidae) [PDF]
Evolutionary SystematicsA 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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Chagas Disease in Pregnant Women in the Peruvian Amazon Basin. Cross-Sectional Study
Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2020 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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Cold waves in the Amazon rainforest and their ecological impact. [PDF]
Biol LettCold waves crossing the Amazon rainforest are an extraordinary phenomenon likely to be affected by climate change. We here describe an extensive cold wave that occurred in June 2023 in Amazonian–Andean forests and compare environmental temperatures to experimentally measured thermal tolerances and their impact on lowland animal communities (insects and
Holzmann KL +8 more
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New records of Pelecinus polyturator (Drury) (Hymenoptera: Proctotrupoidea: Pelecinidae) for Brazil
Revista Chilena de Entomología, 2020 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
Data, 2021 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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Royal Society Open Science, 2023 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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Acid rain in an Amazon rainforest [PDF]
Tellus B, 1983 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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Acanthosyris annonagustata C.Ulloa & P.Jørg. (Santalaceae), newly recorded for the flora of Peru [PDF]
Check List, 2021 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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Multi-Label Remote Sensing Image Classification with Latent Semantic Dependencies
Remote Sensing, 2020 Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest results in reduced biodiversity, habitat loss, climate change, and other destructive impacts. Hence obtaining location information on human activities is essential for scientists and governments working to protect ...
Junchao Ji +4 more
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Genomics Data, 2016 The Anthropogenic Amazon Dark Earth soil is considered one of the world's most fertile soils. These soils differs from conventional Amazon soils because its higher organic content concentration.
Leandro Nascimento Lemos +6 more
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