Local perceptions as a guide for the sustainable management of natural resources: empirical evidence from a small-scale society in Bolivian Amazonia [PDF]
Ecology and Society, 2016 Research on natural resource management suggests that local perceptions form the basis upon which many small-scale societies monitor availability and change in the stock of common-pool natural resources. In contrast, this literature debates whether local
Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares +5 more
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Targeted Capture of Hundreds of Nuclear Genes Unravels Phylogenetic Relationships of the Diverse Neotropical Palm Tribe Geonomateae [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2019 The tribe Geonomateae is a widely distributed group of 103 species of Neotropical palms which contains six ecologically important understory or subcanopy genera.
Oriane Loiseau +27 more
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SECAPR—a bioinformatics pipeline for the rapid and user-friendly processing of targeted enriched Illumina sequences, from raw reads to alignments [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 Evolutionary biology has entered an era of unprecedented amounts of DNA sequence data, as new sequencing technologies such as Massive Parallel Sequencing (MPS) can generate billions of nucleotides within less than a day.
Tobias Andermann +4 more
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Evaluation of the thermomechanical properties of novel epoxy composites reinforced with Geonoma baculifera fibers [PDF]
Scientific ReportsNatural lignocellulosic fibers (NLFs) have shown a great potential as reinforcements in composites in recent decades. Among other reasons, environmental concerns and the depletion of oil reserves justify research on natural composites as they offer an ...
Belayne Zanini Marchi +5 more
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Edaphic and light conditions of sympatric plant morphotypes in western Amazonia [PDF]
Biodiversity Data Journal, 2014 Here I present a dataset of edaphic and light conditions associated with the occurrence of sympatric morphotypes of Geonoma macrostachys (Arecaceae/Palmae), a candidate case study from Amazonia hypothesized to have evolved under ecological speciation ...
Julissa Roncal
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COMUNIDADES DE PALMAS EN DOS BOSQUES DE CHOCÓ, COLOMBIA [PDF]
Caldasia, 2011 Estudiamos la riqueza, la abundancia, la composición y la estructura de las comunidades de palmas en dos sitios de la selva central del Chocó, Colombia.
Ramirez G, Galeano Gloria
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Root anatomy of Venezuelan species of Geonoma (Arecaceae: Arecoideae: Geonomateae)
Rodriguésia, 2021 In this research we studied root anatomy of eight species and two morphotypes from the genus Geonoma in Venezuela, in order to explore their structural and taxonomic implications. Fresh material sampled wild population was fixed in FAA and hand-sectioned
Arnaldo Briceño +2 more
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Caldasia, 2021 Geonoma is one of the more diverse genera of palms in the neotropical region, which comprises 68 species distributed from southern Mexico to south-western Brazil.
Gustavo Pereira Lima +2 more
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Palm phytoliths of mid-elevation Andean forests [PDF]
, 2018 Palms are one of the most common tropical plant groups. They are widespread across lowland tropical forests, but many are found in higher altitudes have more constrained environmental ranges.
Huisman, Seringe N. +2 more
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Liliopsida, Arecaceae, Geonoma undata Klotzsch: range extension for Zulia state, Venezuela [PDF]
Check List, 2013 The occurrence of the palm Geonoma undata Klotzsch is registered for the first time for the state of Zulia, Venezuela, as result of a floristic survey made at Cerro Las Antenas, in the Serranía de Perijá.
Juan Arias, Fred Stauffer
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