Coleoborers (Curculionidae: Scolytinae) in native and homogeneous systems of Brazil nut (Bertholletia excelsa bonpl.) in the Southern Amazon, Brazil. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2021 Brazil nut is one of the most important species of the Amazon due to its socioeconomic importance. Especially in homogeneous production systems, it may be susceptible to damage by wood-boring insects, as by the subfamily Scolytinae (Coleoptera ...
Marcus Henrique Martins E Silva +3 more
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Brazil nut (Bertholletia excelsa) and metformin abrogate cardiac complication in fructose/STZ-induced type 2 diabetic rats by attenuating oxidative stress and modulating the MAPK-mTOR/NFkB/IL-10 signaling pathways [PDF]
Food & Nutrition ResearchBackground: The global prevalence of diabetic heart complication has been on the increase, and some of the drugs that are currently used to treat diabetes mellitus (DM) have not been able to mitigate this complication.
Zhenzuo Li +3 more
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NTFP harvesters as citizen scientists: Validating traditional and crowdsourced knowledge on seed production of Brazil nut trees in the Peruvian Amazon. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Understanding the factors that underlie the production of non-timber forest products (NTFPs), as well as regularly monitoring production levels, are key to allow sustainability assessments of NTFP extractive economies.
Evert Thomas +5 more
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A Healthy Brazil Nut Beverage with Opuntia stricta var. dillenii Green Extract: Beverage Stability and Changes in Bioactives and Antioxidant Activity during Cold Storage [PDF]
FoodsPlant-based beverages are one of the foods that currently arouse a lot of interest in the population due to their composition with compounds beneficial to health in addition to their being used as milk substitutes for people who suffer from food ...
Daniel A. Alvarado-López +3 more
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Growth and survival over ten years of Brazil-nut trees planted in three anthropogenic habitats in northern Amazonia [PDF]
Acta Amazonica, 2021 We examined the growth and survival of Brazil-nut trees, Bertholletia excelsa (Lecythidaceae) under different environmental conditions and levels of canopy openness within experimental plantations in the Trombetas River valley, in northern Brazil.
Ricardo SCOLES, Rogério GRIBEL
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Forest Degradation and Inter-annual Tree Level Brazil Nut Production in the Peruvian Amazon
Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2021 Brazil nuts are an economically important non-timber forest product throughout the Amazon Basin, but the forests in which they grow are under threat of severe degradation by logging, road building, agricultural expansion, and forest fires.
Merel Jansen +15 more
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Remote Sensing, 2023 Madre de Dios is considered an important center of biodiversity in Peru due to its extensive Amazonian forests. However, the forests are under growing pressure due to land invasion, agricultural expansion, and gold mining.
Gabriel Alarcon-Aguirre +8 more
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Soil classes and properties explain the occurrence and fruit production of Brazil nut
Revista Brasileira de Ciência do Solo, 2021 Soil properties and classes can influence the occurrence of plants and the production of Brazil nut fruits and may have a different distribution between sites.
Camila Santos da Silva +5 more
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Sustainability indicators of the Brazil nut tree management
Revista Brasileira de Ciências Ambientais, 2021 Brazil nut tree (Bertholletia excelsa Bonpl) management, is a traditional activity that plays a key role in the economy of forestbased Amazon communities and in the conservation of forests.
Fernanda Lopes da Fonseca +3 more
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Nut Production in Bertholletia excelsa across a Logged Forest Mosaic: Implications for Multiple Forest Use. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Although many examples of multiple-use forest management may be found in tropical smallholder systems, few studies provide empirical support for the integration of selective timber harvesting with non-timber forest product (NTFP) extraction.
Cara A Rockwell +14 more
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