Eighty-four per cent of all Amazonian arboreal plant individuals are useful to humans.
PLoS ONE, 2021 Plants have been used in Amazonian forests for millennia and some of these plants are disproportionally abundant (hyperdominant). At local scales, people generally use the most abundant plants, which may be abundant as the result of management of ...
Sara D Coelho +8 more
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Antimicrobial activity of amazonian medicinal plants [PDF]
SpringerPlus, 2013 Abstract Objectives The aqueous extracts of currently utilized Amazonian medicinal plants were assayed in vitro searching for antimicrobial activity against human and animal pathogenic microorganisms. Methods Medium resuspended lyophilized aqueous extracts of different ...
Oliveira, Amanda A +7 more
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Food Plants Eaten by Amazonian Manatees (Trichechus inunguis, Mammalia : Sirenia) [PDF]
Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology, 2002 To determine the feeding habits of the Amazonian manatee Trichechus inunguis in some Central Amazonian rivers and lakes, we compared plant epidermis found in the stomach contents and/or faeces of animals with a reference collection of plants present in ...
Ioni G. Colares, Elton P. Colares
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Convergent Adaptations: Bitter Manioc Cultivation Systems in Fertile Anthropogenic Dark Earths and Floodplain Soils in Central Amazonia [PDF]
, 2012 Shifting cultivation in the humid tropics is incredibly diverse, yet research tends to focus on one type: long-fallow shifting cultivation. While it is a typical adaptation to the highly-weathered nutrient-poor soils of the Amazonian terra firme, fertile
Alessandro Alves-Pereira +28 more
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Morphological correlates of fire-induced tree mortality in a central Amazonian forest. [PDF]
, 2003 Tree characteristics were recorded from 2829 standing trees in 24 0.25-ha terra firme forest plots in central Amazonia, 3 y after a surface fire had swept through the study area.
Peres, Carlos A. +2 more
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Screening of plants found in Amazonas State for lethality towards brine shrimp [PDF]
Acta Amazonica, 2003 226 methanol and water extracts representing 74 mainly native plant species found in Amazonas State, Brazil, were tested at a standard concentration of 500 μg/mL for lethality towards larvae of the brine shrimp species Artemia franciscana.
Etienne Louis Jacques QUIGNARD +20 more
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Extinction risks of Amazonian plant species [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2009 Estimates of the number, and preferably the identity, of species that will be threatened by land-use change and habitat loss are an invaluable tool for setting conservation priorities. Here, we use collections data and ecoregion maps to generate spatially explicit distributions for more than 40,000 vascular plant species from the Amazon basin ...
Kenneth J, Feeley, Miles R, Silman
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Plantas ancestrais e a pesquisa interdisciplinar em diálogo com a perspectiva antropológica
Das Amazônias, 2023 The Amazon region is widely known for its rich biodiversity (SCHUBART, 1990) and the ancestral knowledge of the populations that have inhabited it since ancient times are fundamental in dealing with this issue.
Denise Machado Cardoso +1 more
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Amazonian Medicine and the Psychedelic Revival: Considering the “Dieta”
Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2021 Background: In Peruvian Amazonian medicine, plant diets (dietas) are a fundamental and highly flexible technique with a variety of uses: from treating and preventing illness, to increasing strength and resilience, to rites of passage, to learning even ...
David M. O’Shaughnessy +2 more
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Ignite Amazonian Sunrise Drops (NEW 2022!) Does It Work Or Just Scam?
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