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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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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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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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Animist Phytofilm: Plants in Amazonian Indigenous Filmmaking
Philosophies, 2022 Early films about plants offer a glimpse into the behavior of vegetal life, which had hitherto remained hidden from humans. Critics have praised this animistic capacity of cinema, allowing audiences to see the movement of beings that appeared to be inert
Patrícia Isabel Lontro Vieira
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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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Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum, 2019 Building accurate knowledge of the identity, the geographic distribution and the evolution of living species is essential for a sustainable development of humanity, as well as for biodiversity conservation.
A. Joly +10 more
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How People Domesticated Amazonian Forests
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2018 For millennia, Amazonian peoples have managed forest resources, modifying the natural environment in subtle and persistent ways. Legacies of past human occupation are striking near archaeological sites, yet we still lack a clear picture of how human ...
Carolina Levis +12 more
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Divergent chemical cues elicit seed collecting by ants in an obligate multi-species mutualism in lowland Amazonia. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2010 In lowland Amazonian rainforests, specific ants collect seeds of several plant species and cultivate them in arboreal carton nests, forming species-specific symbioses called ant-gardens (AGs).
Elsa Youngsteadt +2 more
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Journal of Ecology, 2020 Information on direct and indirect drivers of temporal variation in ant–plant interactions is scarce, compromising our ability to predict the functioning of these ecologically important interactions.
A. Nogueira +5 more
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Domestication of the Amazonian fruit tree cupuaçu may have stretched over the past 8000 years
Communications Earth & Environment, 2023 Amazonia, one of the largest and most biodiverse ecosystems on Earth, is a significant yet less-known arena for ancient plant domestication. Here, we traced the origins of cupuaçu (Theobroma grandiflorum), an Amazonian tree crop closely related to cacao (
Matheus Colli-Silva +5 more
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