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Cultural use of wood in a historical building in Southern Brazil

open access: yesRevista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia
Wood is a biological resource that has been widely used by mankind and represents a large part of the Brazilian cultural heritage. Our goal was to identify the wood used in an old historic building in southern Brazil.
João Carlos Ferreira de Melo Jr.   +1 more
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Cultural Woods in Brazil: Historical Legacy and Future Frontiers [PDF]

open access: yesActa Botânica Brasílica
: Historical woods express cultural relations around the use of biodiversity by human societies. This article presents an overview of woods used for cultural purposes in Brazil based on the epistemological concept of historical anatomy.
João Carlos Ferreira de Melo Júnior   +17 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Chemical Composition and Color of Short-Rotation Teak Wood Thermally Modified in Closed and Open Systems

open access: yesApplied Sciences, 2023
Although the effect of thermal modification (TM) on teak wood color is well documented, few studies have been carried out on closed-system processes, and it remains unclear what the effect is of different processes on the same material.
Felipe da Silva Gomes   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Mapping of the Successional Stage of a Secondary Forest Using Point Clouds Derived from UAV Photogrammetry

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2023
The definition of strategies for forest restoration projects depends on information of the successional stage of the area to be restored. Usually, classification of the successional stage is carried out in the field using forest inventory campaigns ...
Ricardo Pinheiro Cabral   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Coleoborers (Curculionidae: Scolytinae) in native and homogeneous systems of Brazil nut (Bertholletia excelsa bonpl.) in the Southern Amazon, Brazil.

open access: yesPLoS 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
doaj   +1 more source

UNDERSTANDING THE DYNAMICS OF THE BRAZILIAN MARKET FOR NATIVE FOREST WOOD: A CASE STUDY FOR MINAS GERAIS STATE, BRAZIL

open access: yesRevista Árvore, 2021
Understanding the Brazilian market for native wood helps forest managers and can guide conservation policies. This study aimed to evaluate the spatial and temporal distribution of supply and demand of the Brazilian native wood for four products namely ...
Thales Guilherme Vaz Martins   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Forest Bioeconomy in Brazil: Potential Innovative Products from the Forest Sector

open access: yesLand, 2022
The forest sector plays an important role in the circular bioeconomy due to its focus on renewable materials that can substitute fossil or greenhouse gas emissions-intensive materials, store carbon in bio-based products and provide ecosystem services ...
Yasmin Imparato Maximo   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Method for classifying sites to Atlantic Rainforest restoration aiming to increase basin’s streamflows

open access: yesiForest - Biogeosciences and Forestry, 2021
We propose a method to classify priority sites for Atlantic Rainforest restoration aiming to increase basin streamflows. The Rainfall Forest to Water Production (RFWP) method uses multicriteria analysis supported by GIS techniques and hydrological ...
Cecílio RA   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

A revision of the Neotropical genus Coptoborus Hopkins (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Scolytinae, Xyleborini) [PDF]

open access: yesZooKeys, 2021
The Neotropical xyleborine ambrosia beetle genus Coptoborus Hopkins is reviewed. The following 40 Coptoborus species are described: C. amplissimus sp. nov. (Peru), C. asperatus sp. nov. (Ecuador), C. barbicauda sp. nov. (French Guiana), C.
Sarah M. Smith, Anthony I. Cognato
doaj   +3 more sources

Effects of thermal treatment and weathering in the resistance against termites of a fast-growing pine wood

open access: yesMaderas: Ciencia y Tecnología, 2023
Considering the limited existing literature on the combined effects of thermal treatment and weathering on the resistance of fast-growing pine wood to subterranean termites, this work deals with the resistance against subterranean termites of a ...
Ricardo Ripoll de Medeiros   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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