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The gathering firestorm in southern Amazonia

Science Advances, 2019
Amazon wildfires could emit 17.0 Pg of CO2 by 2050, and avoiding new deforestation could cut associated net emissions by half. Wildfires, exacerbated by extreme weather events and land use, threaten to change the Amazon from a net carbon sink to a net ...
P. Brando, P. Brando, B. Soares-Filho, L. Rodrigues, Alexandre C. Assunção, D. Morton, D. Tuchschneider, E. Fernandes, M. Macedo, U. Oliveira, M. Coe   +10 more
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Geometry by Design: Contribution of Lidar to the Understanding of Settlement Patterns of the Mound Villages in SW Amazonia

Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology, 2020
Recent research has shown that the entire southern rim of Amazonia was inhabited by earth-building societies involving landscape engineering, landscape domestication and likely low-density urbanism during the Late Holocene.
José Iriarte, M. Robinson, J. G. Souza, A. Damasceno, Franciele da Silva, Francisco Ruji Nakahara, A. Ranzi, L. Aragão   +7 more
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Changes in the carbon balance of tropical forest: evidence from long-term plots [PDF]

, 1998
The role of the world’s forests as a “sink” for atmospheric carbon dioxide is the subject of active debate. Long-term monitoring of plots in mature humid tropical forests concentrated in South America revealed that biomass gain by tree growth exceeded ...
Brown, S., Ferreira, L.V., Grace, J., Higuchi, N., Laurance, S.G., Laurance, W.F., Malhi, Y., Nunez, P.V., Phillips, O.L., Stern, M., Vasquez, R.M.   +10 more
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Uncovering Amazonia

Open Rivers Rethinking Water Place & Community, 2022
“Amazonia”—the word alone can conjure up a lot of images, some accurate and some wildly not. In truth, it has many definitions, ranging from a specific drainage basin to a tropical ecological world. For most of my childhood, such kinds of tropical “jungles” were places of peril to be avoided.
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Bioética y desarrollo sostenible: entre el biocentrismo y el antropocentrismo y su sesgo economicista

CLIO América, 2019
La actual crisis del desarrollo sostenible en materia de credibilidad y efecto, con notorios impactos de tipo ambiental y cultural, supone una necesaria reflexión desde disciplinas contextuales como la bioética, que permitan rescatar el componente ...
Gloria Elena Estrada-Cely, Verenice Sánchez-Castillo, Carlos Alberto Gómez-Cano   +2 more
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Importancia cultural de vegetación arbórea en sistemas ganaderos del municipio de San Vicente del Caguán, Colombia

Revista U.D.C.A Actualidad & Divulgación Científica, 2017
El conocimiento local juega un papel importante en la identificación de especies arbóreas, que contribuyen a la formación de alternativas para sistemas ganaderos, en función a la conservación, la protección del ambiente y la economía de los productores ...
Yimi Katherine Ángel Sánchez, Maggy Ennid Pimentel Tapia, Juan Carlos Suárez Salazar   +2 more
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Residuos de celulares y tabletas: incidencia del nivel de escolaridad en las actitudes y percepciones frente a su manejo

Revista U.D.C.A Actualidad & Divulgación Científica, 2018
El avance tecnológico ha traído consigo la generación de residuos de celulares y tabletas . Esta tendencia seguirá en aumento, dado el fácil acceso a estos dispositivos . En el siguiente estudio, se relaciona la incidencia del nivel de escolaridad, sobre
Yois Pascuas, Diana Chico, Sergio Hernández   +2 more
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Research trends in socio-environmental and socicultural aspects of ecotourism in Latin America (2015-2020)

Praxis & Saber, 2022
 In Latin America, ecotourism has been relevant in recent years. The objective is to explain research trends in socio-environmental and sociocultural aspects of ecotourism in Latin America between 2015 and 2020 through the documentary review of ...
Lillyam López , Víctor Julio Balanta, Heriberto Fernando Vargas   +2 more
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Deforestation in Amazonia

Science, 2004
In recent years, we and others have identified critical threats posed to the forests of Amazonia by the Brazilian government's plans to dramatically expand highways and other major infrastructure projects in the region ([1][1]–[6][2]).
Laurance, William F., Albernaz, Ana K. L. M., Fearnside, Philip M., Vasconcelos, Heraldo L., Ferreira, Leandro V.   +4 more
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Rarity of monodominance in hyperdiverse Amazonian forests. [PDF]

, 2019
Tropical forests are known for their high diversity. Yet, forest patches do occur in the tropics where a single tree species is dominant. Such "monodominant" forests are known from all of the main tropical regions. For Amazonia, we sampled the occurrence
Alonso, Alfonso, Amaral, Iêda Leão, Andrade, Ana, Araujo-Murakami, Alejandro, Arboleda, Nicolás Castaño, Arroyo, Luzmila, Assis, Rafael L, Aymard C, Gerardo A, Baraloto, Chris, Brienen, Roel, Bánki, Olaf S, Camargo, José Luís, Carim, Marcelo de Jesus Veiga, Carvalho, Fernanda Antunes, Castellanos, Hernán, Castilho, Carolina V, Casula, Katia Regina, Cintra, Bruno Barçante Ladvocat, Coelho, Luiz de Souza, Comiskey, James A, Costa, Flávia RC, Cárdenas López, Dairon, Dallmeier, Francisco, Damasco, Gabriel, de Aguiar, Daniel Praia Portela, de Medeiros, Marcelo Brilhante, de Sousa Farias, Emanuelle, de Souza, Fernanda Coelho, de Toledo, José Julio, Demarchi, Layon O, do Amaral, Dário Dantas, Draper, Freddie, Duivenvoorden, Joost F, Duque, Alvaro, Dávila, Nállarett, Engel, Julien, Feeley, Kenneth J, Feitosa, Yuri Oliveira, Feldpausch, Ted R, Ferreira, Leandro Valle, Filho, Diogenes de Andrade Lima, García-Villacorta, Roosevelt, Gomes, Vitor HF, Groeneveld, Jürgen, Guevara, Juan Ernesto, Guimarães, José Renan da Silva, Helal, Nora, Henkel, Terry W, Honorio Coronado, Euridice N, Huth, Andreas, Irume, Mariana Victória, Killeen, Timothy J, Laurance, Susan GW, Laurance, William F, Lima de Queiroz, Helder, Lloyd, Jon, Lopes, Aline, Lopes, Maria Aparecida, Lozada, José Rafael, Luize, Bruno Garcia, Magalhães, José Leonardo Lima, Magnusson, William E, Manzatto, Angelo Gilberto, Marimon, Beatriz S, Marimon-Junior, Ben Hur, Martins, Maria Pires, Matos, Francisca Dionízia de Almeida, Mendonça Nascimento, Henrique Eduardo, Mendoza, Abel Monteagudo, Mogollón, Hugo F, Molino, Jean-François, Montero, Juan Carlos, Moraes de Leão Novo, Evlyn Márcia, Mostacedo, Bonifacio, Neill, David, Núñez Vargas, Percy, Petronelli, Pascal, Phillips, Oliver L, Piedade, Maria Teresa Fernandez, Pitman, Nigel CA, Quaresma, Adriano, Ramos, José Ferreira, Reis, Neidiane Farias Costa, Revilla, Juan David Cardenas, Rincón, Lorena M, Sabatier, Daniel, Salomão, Rafael P, Schietti, Juliana, Schöngart, Jochen, Silva, Thiago Sanna Freire, Simon, Marcelo Fragomeni, Sousa, Thaiane R, Stevenson, Pablo R, Ter Steege, Hans, Terborgh, John, Vasquez, Rodolfo, Venticinque, Eduardo Martins, Vicentini, Alberto, Vieira, Ima Célia Guimarães, Wittmann, Florian   +99 more
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