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A Palynological Atlas of the Amazon canga Vegetation [PDF]

open access: yesPlants
cangas are iron-rich outcrops where rupestrian fields develop in the Carajás Mountain Range (CMR). canga formations are ancient ecosystems characterized by high levels of endemic and threatened plant species that thrive on iron-rich substrates in the ...
Luiza de Araújo Romeiro   +10 more
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Cross-species transcriptomes reveal species-specific and shared molecular adaptations for plants development on iron-rich rocky outcrops soils [PDF]

open access: yesBMC Genomics, 2022
Background Canga is the Brazilian term for the savanna-like vegetation harboring several endemic species on iron-rich rocky outcrops, usually considered for mining activities. Parkia platycephala Benth.
Mariana Costa Dias   +4 more
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Proteomic Profiling and Rhizosphere-Associated Microbial Communities Reveal Adaptive Mechanisms of Dioclea apurensis Kunth in Eastern Amazon’s Rehabilitating Minelands [PDF]

open access: yesPlants, 2022
Dioclea apurensis Kunth is native to ferruginous rocky outcrops (known as canga) in the eastern Amazon. Native cangas are considered hotspots of biological diversity and have one of the largest iron ore deposits in the world. There, D. apurensis can grow
Sidney Vasconcelos do Nascimento   +7 more
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Novos registros de Sphaenorhynchus canga (Amphibia, Anura, Hylidae) no Quadrilátero Ferrífero em Minas Gerais, Sudeste do Brasil [PDF]

open access: yesNeotropical Biology and Conservation, 2020
A perereca Sphaenorhynchus canga foi recentemente descrita, com distribuição geográfica restrita, na borda leste do Quadrilátero Ferrífero em Minas Gerais. A espécie foi originalmente registrada em cinco lagoas ou poças naturais em área de campo rupestre
Adriano Lima Silveira   +3 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Size and isolation of naturally isolated habitats do not affect plant-bee interactions: A case study of ferruginous outcrops within the eastern Amazon forest

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2020
Pollination may be severely affected by the decreasing size and increasing isolation of habitat patches. However, most studies that have considered the effects of these two variables on plant-pollinator interactions have been carried out in areas that ...
Carlos Eduardo Pinto   +8 more
doaj   +2 more sources

GÊNESE E INSERÇÃO NA PAISAGEM DAS COURAÇAS FERRUGINOSAS (CANGAS) NO MACIÇO DA PEDRA RACHADA, QUADRILÁTERO FERRÍFERO, MG

open access: yesRevista Brasileira de Geomorfologia, 2021
A identificação de fácies de alteração é um instrumento importante para a compreensão da gênese de produtos do intemperismo. Quando associadas ao relevo, podem fornecer relevantes informações sobre a evolução da paisagem.
Henrique Amorim Machado   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Iron islands in the Amazon: investigating plant beta diversity of canga outcrops [PDF]

open access: yesPhytoKeys, 2020
The world’s largest mineral iron province, Serra dos Carajás, is home to an open vegetation known as canga, found on top of isolated outcrops rising out of the Amazon rainforest. Over one thousand vascular plants species have been recorded in these canga
Caroline Oliveira Andrino   +5 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Controversies and hidden risks in biodiversity offsets in critically threatened Canga (ironstone) ecosystems in Brazil

open access: yesOryx, 2023
Canga, or ironstone, ecosystems are hotspots of old-growth plant diversity and highly specialized cave invertebrates. These ancient metalliferous habitats are amongst the most threatened ecosystems because of the destruction caused by large-scale iron ...
Flavio Fonseca Carmo   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Image fusion in the JPEG 2000 domain [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
This paper presents a novel approach to image fusion in the JPEG 2000 domain. In this scheme, compressed images are fused without the need for full decompression. The proposed method can be integrated with the existing JPEG 2000 tools.
Bull, DR, Canagarajah, CN, Canga, EF
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