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Asymmetrical cooling effects of Amazonian protected areas across spatiotemporal scales

Environmental Research Letters, 2022
Amazonian protected areas (PAs) play an important role in maintaining the regional and global ecosystem services, biodiversity and climate change mitigation.
Anqi Huang, Xiyan Xu, Gensuo Jia, Runping Shen   +3 more
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Key Factors of Competitiveness and Sustainability in Livestock Systems of The Andean-Amazonian Piedmont Autores/as

Mercados y Negocios, 2022
The objective was to identify factors of competitiveness and sustainability in livestock systems of The Andean-Amazonian Piedmont. In a sample of 60 farms in the area, a survey aimed at producers was implemented to identify internal and external factors ...
Yelly Yamparli Pardo Rozo, Octavio Hernández Castorena, Milton Cesar Andrade Adaime   +2 more
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Dung beetles from two sustainable-use protected forests in the Brazilian Amazon [PDF]

Biodiversity Data Journal, 2023
The Amazon Forest is one of the world's most biodiverse ecosystems and yet its protected areas are understudied concerning insects and other invertebrates.
Edrielly C. Carvalho, Maria Maldaner, Vinicius Costa-Silva, Heivanice Sehn, Carol Franquini, Vinicius Campos, Vinicius Seba, Laís Maia, Fernando Vaz-de-Mello, Filipe França   +9 more
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Hydroinformatics’ contribution to Amazonian water resources and ecosystem management

Ingeniería e Investigación, 2011
Significant progress has been made during recent years in applying information technologies to water resource management from a multidisciplinary field called hydroinformatics; this can change the focus of environmental impact assessment and decision-making according to available environmental resources.
Bell Manrique Losada, Jaime Alberto Echeverri-Arias, Marlon Peláez-Rodríguez   +2 more
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Pharmaceuticals and other urban contaminants threaten Amazonian freshwater ecosystems

Environment International, 2021
Urban areas in the Brazilian Amazon have grown at an unprecedented rate during the last years. About 90% of the wastewater produced by these urban areas are discharged untreated into Amazonian freshwater ecosystems, constituting a potential environmental pathway for pharmaceuticals and other chemicals consumed by modern societies (e.g. psychostimulants,
Rico A., de Oliveira R., de Souza Nunes G. S., Rizzi C., Villa S., Lopez-Heras I., Vighi M., Waichman A. V.   +7 more
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Identifying high occurrence areas of hospitalization and mortality from respiratory diseases in the Brazilian Legal Amazon: a space-time analysis [PDF]

Cadernos de Saúde Pública
: Respiratory diseases pose a significant threat to the health of the Brazilian population, ranking among the leading causes of hospitalizations and deaths in the country.
Lucas de Oliveira do Couto, Ludmilla da Silva Viana Jacobson, Andre Reynaldo Santos Périssé, Sandra de Souza Hacon   +3 more
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Forest restoration in the floodplains of the Amazon estuary subjected to intensive açaí management

Ambiente & Sociedade, 2021
The expansion and intensification of açaí management in floodplain forests of the Amazonian estuary have resulted in changes in floristic composition and in biodiversity losses, causing problems to ecosystems and endangering livelihoods of riverine ...
Rosileia da Costa Carvalho, Lívia de Freitas Navegantes Alves, Renan do Vale Carneiro   +2 more
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Bacterial Diversity in an Amazonian Mangrove Ecosystem

Aquatic Science and Technology, 2012
Mangroves form a transition zone among terrestrial, marine, and freshwater environments, and they host a striking diversity of macro- and microorganisms. In recent years, increasing anthropogenic impacts have caused widespread degradation of mangrove environments. To analyze the bacterial diversity of Salina Lake, an artificial body of water located in
Leide MS Pureza, Diego A Graças, Evonnildo C Gonçalves, José AM Correa, Artur Silva, Maria PC Schneider   +5 more
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Violence, land conflicts and the dynamics of the agrarian economy in the Brazilian Amazon [PDF]

Cadernos de Saúde Pública
In the Amazon, the land market is imposed by the conversion of the forest into land for economic purposes. Part of this land is the result of illicit actions, using different levels of violence and producing changes in the forest landscape. We argue that
Ana Paula Dal’Asta, Wellington Augusto Araújo Farias, Antonio Miguel Vieira Monteiro, Silvana Amaral, Alexandre Bahia Gontijo, Danilo Araújo Fernandes, Maria Isabel Sobral Escada   +6 more
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Diel and seasonal changes of biogenic volatile organic compounds within and above an Amazonian rainforest [PDF]

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2015
The Amazonian rainforest is a large tropical ecosystem, which is one of the last pristine continental terrains. This ecosystem is ideally located for the study of diel and seasonal behaviour of biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs) in the absence ...
A. M. Yáñez-Serrano, A. C. Nölscher, J. Williams, S. Wolff, E. Alves, G. A. Martins, E. Bourtsoukidis, J. Brito, K. Jardine, P. Artaxo, J. Kesselmeier   +10 more
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