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From traditional practice to unsustainable exploitation: Fruit overharvesting on the endangered relict palm Jubaea chilensis

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Overharvesting of wild edible plants poses a growing threat to plant populations worldwide, particularly for slow‐growing species with limited regeneration. We quantified fruit extraction from the third‐largest known population of Jubaea chilensis—an endangered palm endemic to Chile—modeled the critical harvest threshold, and assessed consumer ...
Sebastián Cordero, Francisca Gálvez, Marisol Arriagada‐Honores, Andrés Jesús Garrido, Daniela Paredes‐Muñoz, Bastián Fuentes‐Valdés, Fernanda Torres‐Cifuentes, Francisco E. Fontúrbel   +7 more
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Halting Neotropical Deforestation: Do the Forest Principles Have What It Takes? [PDF]

, 1996
INTRODUCTION I crashed into the thick secondary growth, stopping suddenly to duck a certain branch in my path: a fat black bullet ant crawled along it with indifference, an attitude that would have quickly changed had I brushed up against him.
Royer, Matthew B.
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Widespread forest vertebrate extinctions induced by a mega hydroelectric dam in lowland Amazonia [PDF]

, 2015
Mega hydropower projects in tropical forests pose a major emergent threat to terrestrial and freshwater biodiversity worldwide. Despite the unprecedented number of existing, underconstruction and planned hydroelectric dams in lowland tropical forests ...
A Ansar, AC Lees, AF Palmeirim, AT Bednarek, C Emer, C Gascon, C Nilsson, CA Peres, CA Peres, CA Peres, Carlos A. Peres, CD Mendenhall, CF Dormann, CFJ Meyer, CJR Alho, DH Thornton, F Michalski, F Michalski, FA Smith, G Ferraz, G Ziv, GR Canale, H Andrén, J Barlow, J Diamond, J Terborgh, J Terborgh, J Wu, JF Cosson, JF Eisenberg, JI Watling, JR Lima, JR Malcolm, K McGarigal, L Castello, L Gibson, LH Emmons, LR Prugh, M Benchimol, M Benchimol, M Benchimol, M Benchimol, M Finer, M Kuussaari, M Yu, Maharaj K Pandit, Maíra Benchimol, MV Lomolino, OL Petchey, PC Esselman, PM Fearnside, PM Fearnside, PM Kareiva, R Dirzo, R Sampaio, RH MacArthur, RR Souza-Mazureck, ST Wright, T Urquiza-Haas, Y Wang   +59 more
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Social, Technological, Economic, and Policy Factors in the Circular Economy Transition in Brazil

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A well‐functioning circular economy (CE) integrates resilience across economic, environmental, and social dimensions. This study identifies key drivers and barriers to Brazil's CE transition through 20 semi‐structured interviews with stakeholders. Major sociocultural barriers include inadequate education and limited CE awareness, while growing
Alejandro Gallego‐Schmid, Ana Belén Guerrero, Ricardo Rebolledo‐Leiva, Alvaro Elorrieta‐Mendoza, Denisse Milagros Paredes Cotohuanca, Raphael Ricardo Zepon Tarpani, Rodrigo Salvador, Murillo Vetroni Barros, Claudia E. Henninger, Leonardo Vásquez‐Ibarra   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Oxidative Stress Biomarkers in the Shrimp Macrobrachium amazonicum (Heller, 1862): Assessment in an Environmental Preservation Area in the Brazilian Amazon

Environmental Toxicology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Anthropogenic activities generate a significant amount of pollutants that are released into the environment, causing physiological and ecological disturbances. Among the xenobiotics present in aquatic ecosystems, numerous chemical and organic compounds have oxidative potential or are metabolized through oxidative processes, which may amplify ...
Natália Eduarda da Silva, Arllon José dos Santos Dias, Layane Vitoria dos Santos e Santos, Natalie de Matos Araujo, Darlan Coutinho dos Santos, Jefferson Romáryo Duarte da Luz, Gabriel Araujo‐Silva   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The birth of an earth being: ‘Rights of nature’ in Brazilian Amazonia and elsewhere Naissance d'un être de la terre : « droits de la nature » en Amazonie brésilienne et ailleurs

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In June 2023, the Laje River, located in the traditional territory of the Wari’ Indigenous people in Rondônia, Brazil, was declared a legal entity, an earth being, with rights, following the co‐ordinated action of an indigenous councillor and non‐indigenous activists.
Aparecida Vilaça
wiley   +1 more source

Agro-industrial By-Products from Amazonian Fruits: Use for Obtaining Bioproducts

, 2021
Fruit processing contributes significantly to the agricultural exportation of the Amazonian; however, it generates large amounts of solid waste, despite its high content of bioactive compounds and nutritional properties, and they are discarded in the environment.
Silva, da Costa, Russany, Gabbay, Alves, Taís Vanessa, Lopes, da Silva, Raimundo, Maria, de Meneses Costa Ferreira, Lindalva, Ribeiro, Costa, Roseane Maria, Otávio, Carréra Silva, José   +5 more
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Availability of a Keystone Plant Resource Reduces Niche Overlap and Drives Distinct Species‐Specific Changes in Niche Breadth Among Small Rodents

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
We investigated how three rodent species respond to the seasonal availability of Araucaria angustifolia seeds. While Oligoryzomys spp. increased seed consumption and abundance during seed production, the more insectivorous Akodon paranaensis maintained a broader diet.
Adriana A. Perini, Emerson M. Vieira
wiley   +1 more source

Characterizing degradation of palm swamp peatlands from space and on the ground: an exploratory study in the Peruvian Amazon [PDF]

, 2017
Peru has the fourth largest area of peatlands in the Tropics. Its most representative land cover on peat is a Mauritia flexuosa dominated palm swamp (thereafter called dense PS), which has been under human pressure over decades due to the high demand for
Alvarez, Baccini, Belgiu, Blois, Brady, Breiman, Carlson, Chander, Chave, Crist, Dargie, Draper, Drösler, Englhart, Fernández-Delgado, Gaveau, Goodman, Gutiérrez-Vélez, Hergoualc’h, Hergoualc’h, Honorio Coronado, Horn, Householder, Jaenicke, Janovec, Jensen, Kahn, Kelly, Koh, Kristell Hergoualc'h, Laumonier, Lehner, Louis V. Verchot, Lähteenoja, Lähteenoja, Lähteenoja, Lähteenoja, Manuri, Mary Menton, Miettinen, Miettinen, Miettinen, Miettinen, Mokany, Nyoungui, Padoch, Page, Pearson, Penn, R Core Team, Richards, Rodriguez-Galiano, Román-Cuesta, Räsänen, Saatchi, Shao, Shimabukuro, Sierra, van der Werf, Victor Hugo Gutiérrez-Vélez, Weiskittel, Yu, Yuan, Zianis   +63 more
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Taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity patterns of Saturniidae moth communities along a tropical forest recovery gradient in Ecuador

Insect Conservation and Diversity, EarlyView.
Diverse Saturniidae moth communities are found in naturally recovering tropical forests in Ecuador. Community composition showed a gradual turnover with strongest differences between old‐growth forest and active agriculture, but only weak differences in taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity. While our results suggest that Saturniidae are not
Sebastian Seibold, Dominik Rabl, Paula Sorger, Julian Bittermann, Nico Blüthgen, Gunnar Brehm, Annika Busse, Maria Camila De La Hoz, Mareike Kortmann, Peter Kriegel, Jérôme Morinière, Marcel Püls, Ana B. García‐Ruilova, H. Martin Schaefer, Constance J. Tremlett, Jörg Müller   +15 more
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