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Taxonomic Updates of Thismia pseudomelanomitra (Thismiaceae) Reveal an Old Acquaintance From the Ecuadorian Amazon

Feddes Repertorium, Volume 137, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT The Amazon Basin is home to the world's greatest terrestrial biodiversity, but many plant groups remain poorly studied. One example is the mycoheterotrophic genus Thismia (Thismiaceae), which is notable for its highly specialized floral morphology and ephemeral life cycles, making it difficult to detect in the field and limiting its ...
Diego Ferreira da Silva, Mayk Honório, José Roberto Ferraz, Elson Felipe Sandoli Rosseto, Martin Acosta Oliveira, Marcos Silveira, Efraín L. Freire‐Mayorga, João Marcelo Alvarenga Braga   +7 more
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Spray drying of buriti oil-in-water emulsions as potential systems for the delivery of bioactive compounds

Applied Food Research
Buriti, a native palm from the Amazonian rainforest, is a source of high-quality oil due to its high content of oleic acid and lipophilic antioxidant compounds such as β-carotene.
Greilis Quintero-Gamero, Francis S. Sánchez-Garzón, Aureliano Rodríguez-Cortina, María Hernández-Carrión, Luz Stella Nerio   +4 more
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Bertholletia excelsa Humboldt & Bonpland (Lecythidaceae): morphological aspects of fruit, seed and seedling [PDF]

Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Naturais, 2006
Bertholletia excelsa Humboldt & Bonpland is a tree that can reach up to 50m, known popularly as brazilian nut and castanha-do-pará, it happens in the whole Amazonian area; characteristic of the high forests, their nuts or seeds are very appreciated ...
João Ubiratan Moreira dos Santos, Maria de Nazaré do Carmo Bastos, Ely Simone Cajueiro Gurge, Ana Cristina Magalhães Carvalho   +3 more
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Edaphic isolation as a driver of divergence in a new Amazonian species of Diclinanona (Annonaceae)

TAXON, Volume 75, Issue 3, June 2026.
Abstract For many years a mysterious collection made during an expedition to Venezuelan Amazonia in 1992 was in a folder at the former Utrecht Herbarium as “unidentified Annonaceae”. Several different genera were suggested for identification but since flowers were lacking it was unclear where this taxon should be placed. One of the suggestions based on
Roy H.J. Erkens, Thomas L.P. Couvreur, Francis J. Nge, Serafin J.R. Streiff, Rik R.H.G. Lardinois, Paul J.M. Maas   +5 more
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Environmental Filtering Dominates Over Dispersal Limitation in Structuring Highly Mobile Tropical Communities

Journal of Biogeography, Volume 53, Issue 6, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Aim To disentangle the relative roles of environmental filtering (niche processes) and dispersal limitation (neutral processes) in structuring communities of a highly mobile tropical taxon, and to assess the implications for biodiversity patterns at broad spatial scales. Location Brazilian Amazon. Time Period 2011–2019.
Rafael M. Rabelo, Cristian Dambros, Márlon B. C. S. Graça, Geanne C. N. Pereira, Isabela F. Oliveira, Tarik Godoy Dangl Plaza, William E. Magnusson   +6 more
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Multi-ethnic origins in everyday fishing in the brazilian Amazon: contributions to a multidisciplinary project

Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas, 2006
The present text is version of a conference pronounced in the Department of Genetics of the Federal University of Pará (UFPA), in the landmark of the subject Amazonian populations yesterday, today and perspectives for the future.
Lourdes Gonçalves Furtado
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Optimization of the encapsulation of arazá pulp by spray drying: Physicochemical, morphological and in vitro digestion studies

Applied Food Research
Arazá, is an amazonian fruit considered as a good source of bioactive compounds such as ascorbic acid, with a high perishability. To preserve these compounds and their antioxidant activity, its pulp was spray dryed using mixtures of soy protein isolate ...
Greilis Quintero-Gamero, Francis S. Sánchez-Garzón, Aureliano Rodríguez-Cortina, María Hernández-Carrión, Luz Stella Nerio   +4 more
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The Most Elusive Amazonian Mammal? Distribution, Survey, Ecology and Conservation of the Bushy‐Tailed Opossum Glironia venusta

Mammal Review, Volume 56, Issue 2, June 2026.
Integrating multiple data sources, we reveal a broader distribution for Glironia venusta and highlight how sampling strategies shape our understanding of rare arboreal mammals. ABSTRACT Introduction Arboreal and nocturnal mammals in the Amazon remain poorly understood due to low detectability and methodological limitations. Glironia venusta, one of the
Alexander Roldán Arévalo‐Sandi, Fernando Ferreira de Pinho, Andressa Bárbara Scabin, Fernando Trujillo, Maria Nazareth Ferreira da Silva, Wilson Roberto Spironello   +5 more
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Jacaranda copaia (Aubl.) D. Don. subsp. spectabilis (Mart. ex A. DC) Gentry (Bignoniaceae): morphological aspects of fruit, seed and seedling [PDF]

Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Naturais, 2006
Jacaranda copaia (Aubl.) D. Don. subsp. spectabilis (Mart. ex A. DC) Gentry is the only species known as Parapará in Amazonian, they occur at the Amazonian firm forests, is distributed in the states of Amazon, Pará, Mato Grosso, Tocantins, Roraima, and ...
Ely Simone Cajueiro Gurgel, João Ubiratan Moreira dos Santos, Ana Cristina Magalhães Carvalho, Maria de Nazaré do Carmo Bastos   +3 more
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Natural Climate Solutions, Indigenous Peoples, Mestizos, and the Legacies of Conflict Over Land in the Ecuadorian Amazon

Rural Sociology, Volume 91, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Over the past two decades as global alarm over disruptive climate change has grown, coalitions of high‐ranking government officials and prominent activists have launched campaigns to protect and restore greenhouse gas absorbing rain forests. The initial results from these campaigns have varied dramatically across racial and ethnic landholding ...
Thomas K. Rudel, Bruce Horowitz
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