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México y Perú tuvieron puntos de partida muy similares: fueron importantes centros de civilización indígena y de dominación colonial. Con la independencia, ambos atravesaron por un período de medio siglo de desorden político y económico.
Viviane Brachet-Márquez
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Field methods for sampling tree height for tropical forest biomass estimation. [PDF]
Abstract Quantifying the relationship between tree diameter and height is a key component of efforts to estimate biomass and carbon stocks in tropical forests. Although substantial site‐to‐site variation in height–diameter allometries has been documented, the time consuming nature of measuring all tree heights in an inventory plot means that most ...
Sullivan MJP +48 more
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Variation in stem mortality rates determines patterns of above-ground biomass in Amazonian forests: implications for dynamic global vegetation models. [PDF]
Abstract Understanding the processes that determine above‐ground biomass (AGB) in Amazonian forests is important for predicting the sensitivity of these ecosystems to environmental change and for designing and evaluating dynamic global vegetation models (DGVMs).
Johnson MO +77 more
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Abstract For years Colombia has been the world's largest coca producer. Its public management of crops for illicit use has swung between eradication, substitution, and, recently legalization. Forced eradication has been shown to be ineffective, and legalization is an incipient option, so the Peace Agreement puts forward substitution as the path to ...
Mª Josep Cascant‐Sempere +2 more
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Assessing place‐based identities in the early Middle Ages: a proposal for post‐Roman Iberia
Sociological models of place‐based identity can be used to better understand the social dynamics of local communities and how they interact with their surroundings. This paper explores how these theoretical models of belonging to a place, in tandem with communal cognitive maps, can be applied to post‐Roman contexts, taking the Iberian Peninsula in the ...
Javier Martínez Jiménez +1 more
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Diversity in the invasive cacao pathogen Moniliophthora roreri is shaped by agriculture
The highest genetic diversity of the cacao pathogen Moniliophthora roreri is in Ecuador and Colombia, while it drastically decreased in recently invaded countries Abstract Frosty pod rot disease of cacao (FPR), caused by the fungus Moniliophthora roreri, has severely impacted the production of cocoa in Latin America since its discovery.
Jorge R. Díaz‐Valderrama +23 more
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Baroque Modernity in Latin America: Situating Indigeneity, Urban Indigeneity and the Popular Economy
This article uses the Bolivian city of El Alto as a lens through which to evaluate the place of urban indigeneity and the popular economy within Latin American modernity. Whilst some express worries over the erosion of indigenous ways of life and others see urban indigenous practices as defying capitalist modernity, I argue that these emergent forms of
Angus McNelly
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CAMPESINADO: SU RESISTENCIA A DESAPARECER
En este nùmero se presentan un conjunto de artículos en los cuales se analizan los casos de las vivencias, las experiencias y las dinámicas de las personas trabajadoras del campo.
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La colectivización de la tierra que tuvo lugar en la retaguardia republicana a partir de julio de 1936 despertó las reservas de los comunistas, que apelaron a su control estatal y al respeto a la pequeña propiedad. Este artículo explorará, en primer lugar, las principales líneas teóricas del marxismo en su intento por articular la acción colectiva del ...
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