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The objective of this study was to characterize the aquatic insect community associated with Eichhornia azurea (Schwartz) Kunth in four swamp of the middle and lower basin of the Atrato river (Chocó-Colombia) during high and low water periods; the ...
Zuleyma Mosquera Murillo
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Physical environments of the Caribbean Sea [PDF]
The Caribbean Sea encompasses a vast range of physical environmental conditions that have a profound influence on the organisms that live there. Here we utilize a range of satellite and in situ products to undertake a region-wide categorization of the ...
Chollett, Iliana +3 more
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The Atrato slider Trachemys medemi is a freshwater turtle endemic to the Atrato River basin in the Urabá region of north-west Colombia. Although there is limited information about the species, it was provisionally categorized as Vulnerable on the IUCN ...
Juliana Gaviria-Hernández +2 more
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Portrait of the Upper-Middle Basin of the Atrato River, an approach fromenvironmental history
Introduction. This article presents an approach to the environmental history of the upper-middle basin of the Atrato River. Under the interpretive paradigm of the social sciences, the cultural notions around the River are taken as an object of study, whichallowed us to understand the bilateral relationship between nature and society in the territory ...
García Jurado, Mayra Alejandra +3 more
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Recognizing the rights of nature in Colombia : the Atrato river case. [PDF]
Este artículo parte por analizar las condiciones de deterioro ambiental, que desde la Revolución Industrial se ha generado severos problemas no sólo para nuestras especies, sino también para todos los que habitan este planeta.
Cumbe Figueroa, Alexandra +3 more
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The seawater neodymium and lead isotope record of the final stages of Central American Seaway closure [PDF]
Key Points: Seawater Nd and Pb isotope records for the Pliocene Caribbean and EEP Caribbean Nd isotope composition became more UNADW-like during the Pliocene Short term changes support link between CAS closure and strength of AMOC The ...
Frank, Martin +5 more
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Introduction A growing number of countries have adopted legislation that recognizes nature as a subject of rights. The purpose of many rights‐of‐nature laws is linked to restoring biodiversity and ecosystems. Consequently, an ecosystem's right to restoration has emerged as a substantive right of nature.
Mariam C. Kanyama
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Global water scarcity: the monthly blue water footprint compared to blue water availability for the world's major river basins [PDF]
Conventional blue water scarcity indicators suffer from four weaknesses: they measure water withdrawal instead of consumptive water use, they compare water use with actual runoff rather than natural (undepleted) runoff, they ignore environmental flow ...
Hoekstra, A.Y., Mekonnen, M.M.
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Implementing Nature’s Rights in Colombia: The Atrato and Amazon Experiences [PDF]
Nature’s rights approaches are being developed as an alternative legal means to enable justice for nature and, oftentimes, humans, too. This study examines Colombia’s two seminal court-ordered nature’s rights approaches which recognize ecosystems—the ...
Bustos, Camila, Richardson, Whitney
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Abstract In Northwestern South America (NWSA) geodetic observations point to a consistent northeastward displacement of blocks, while the geological record shows a predominant shortening in NW‐SE direction. Such clear evidence of strain partitioning has been extensively studied in the context of two convergent plates, but not in complex tectonic area ...
Román González +8 more
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