Uncovering the genomic potential of the Amazon River microbiome to degrade rainforest organic matter [PDF]
Microbiome, 2020 Background The Amazon River is one of the largest in the world and receives huge amounts of terrestrial organic matter (TeOM) from the surrounding rainforest. Despite this TeOM is typically recalcitrant (i.e.
Célio Dias Santos-Júnior +4 more
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Genome-resolved metagenomics analysis provides insights into the ecological role of Thaumarchaeota in the Amazon River and its plume [PDF]
BMC Microbiology, 2020 Background Thaumarchaeota are abundant in the Amazon River, where they are the only ammonia-oxidizing archaea. Despite the importance of Thaumarchaeota, little is known about their physiology, mainly because few isolates are available for study ...
Otávio H. B. Pinto +7 more
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Amplified seasonal cycle in hydroclimate over the Amazon river basin and its plume region [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2020 The hydroclimatic variations of the Amazon River basin can exert profound impacts on the marine ecosystem in the Amazon plume region. Here the authors show that an amplified seasonal cycle of Amazonia precipitation during 1979–2018 leads to enhanced ...
Yu-Chiao Liang +7 more
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Assessment of Wetland Ecosystem Health in the Yangtze and Amazon River Basins
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2017 As “kidneys of the earth”, wetlands play an important role in ameliorating weather conditions, flood storage, and the control and reduction of environmental pollution.
Rui Sun
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A taxonomic review of the Neotropical electric fish Rhamphichthys (Gymnotiformes: Rhamphichthyidae) [PDF]
Neotropical Ichthyology, 2023 The species diversity and taxonomy of Rhamphichthys is reviewed and seven species are considered valid: Rhamphichthys apurensis from the Orinoco and Cuyuni river basins; R. drepanium from the Amazon and Orinoco river basins; R.
Tiago P. Carvalho, James S. Albert
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Damming the rivers of the Amazon basin [PDF]
Nature, 2017 More than a hundred hydropower dams have already been built in the Amazon basin and numerous proposals for further dam constructions are under consideration. The accumulated negative environmental effects of existing dams and proposed dams, if constructed, will trigger massive hydrophysical and biotic disturbances that will affect the Amazon basin's ...
Latrubesse, E. M. +15 more
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Strategy to Identify Areas of Use of Amazon River dolphins
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022 Unsustainable fisheries practices carried out in large parts of the Amazon, Tocantins, and Orinoco basins have contributed to the decline in the populations of the Amazon River dolphins (Inia spp.), considered Endangered by the International Union for ...
Federico Mosquera-Guerra +31 more
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Energy at the Junction of the Rivers Negro and Solimões, Contributors of the Amazon River, in the Brazilian Amazon [PDF]
International Scholarly Research Notices, 2014 The Negro and Solimoes rivers join in front of the Brazilian city of Manaus to form the Amazon River. This “meeting of the waters” is a natural phenomenon of great aesthetic beauty that has been the focus of attention of researchers all over the world in various scientific fields.
Alexandre Beluco, Paulo Kroeff de Souza
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The Naturalist on the River Amazons
Nature, 1910 "An appreciation, by Charles Darwin": p. vii-xii. ; Bibliography: p. xiii.
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Scientific Reports, 2021 Lutzomyia umbratilis is the main vector of Leishmania guyanensis in the Brazilian Amazon and in neighboring countries. Previous biological and molecular investigations have revealed significant differences between L.
Vera Margarete Scarpassa +2 more
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