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Applications in Plant Sciences, EarlyView.Abstract Premise Advances in the digitization of herbarium collections are enabling open access to specimen data for research and conservation. In Brazil, the Herbário Virtual Reflora (HVR) hosts over 4.8 million high‐resolution images of botanical specimens and their associated data from 86 national and international herbaria.
Carlos Calderón del Cid +5 more
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Geospatial HealthLung cancer represents the second-highest incidence of cancer worldwide and the leading cause of cancer-related deaths. Smoking is still the main risk factor, but other factors are also important, such as those associated with the large-scale ...
Bruna Rafaela Leite Dias +6 more
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Evolution of Amazonian biodiversity: A review [PDF]
Acta AmazonicaAmazonia (defined herein as the Amazon basin) is home to the greatest concentration of biodiversity on Earth, providing unique genetic resources and ecological functions that contribute to ecosystem services globally. The lengthy and complex evolutionary
Juan M. GUAYASAMIN +8 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The circular economy, dominated by capitalocentric, technocentric, and eco‐modernist discourses, risks perpetuating systemic injustice because of its limited consideration of the social and of what is possible. In this article, we examine how social justice can be embedded into circular business models (CBMs)—key drivers of the circular ...
Fernando C. Lit +3 more
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A social-ecological approach to characterize ecosystem services in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Frontiers in Conservation ScienceSocial-ecological approaches are necessary to understand complex systems in which humans are dependent on ecosystem services to support their livelihoods.
Francisco Neira-Brito +6 more
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International Journal of Climatology, EarlyView.ERA5 near‐surface temperature over South America exhibits systematic cold biases in daily maximum temperature and warm biases in daily minimum temperature. To address the continent's strong climatic and topographic heterogeneity, South America was partitioned into five topoclimatic clusters, and four bias‐correction approaches were evaluated. The Multi‐
José Roberto Rozante, Gabriela Rozante
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Victims and Martyrs:Converging Histories of Violence in Amazonian Anthropology and U.S. Cinema [PDF]
, 2009 Since the 1950s, indigenous Waorani people of Amazonian Ecuador have had a prominent place in the evangelical imagination in the United States and Europe because of their reputation for violence.
CASEY HIGH, High, Casey; id_orcid
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Epidemiological landscapes in the Amazon: exploring the association between land use, environmental indicators, and vector-borne diseases [PDF]
Cadernos de Saúde Pública: This study investigates the characteristics of municipalities in the Legal Amazon that may be associated with the incidence of vector-borne diseases using environmental and land use indicators and cluster analysis.
Ana Claudia Rorato Vitor +2 more
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Circulatory disease mortality rates in the elderly and exposure to PM2.5 generated by biomass burning in the Brazilian Amazon in 2005 [PDF]
Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 2013 The aim of this study was to analyze the association between the exposure to fine particulate matter and circulatory disease mortality rates in the elderly living in the Brazilian Amazon.
Karine Vila Real Nunes +2 more
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Fires are expanding in frequency and intensity worldwide due to climate change and land‐use transformations. At the same time, fire often plays a regenerative role in ecosystems. Traditional and cultural practices incorporate fire use for landscape management and landscape renewal. In this complex matrix of fire ecologies, digital technologies
Jennifer Gabrys +2 more
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