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A multidisciplinary overview on the Tupi-speaking people expansion. [PDF]

Am J Biol Anthropol
Expansion of Tupi linguistic subfamilies. Abstract The cultural and biological diversity of South American indigenous groups represent extremes of human variability, exhibiting one of the highest linguistic diversities alongside a remarkably low within‐population genetic variation and an extremely high inter‐population genetic differentiation.
Castro E Silva MA, Hünemeier T.
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Amazon Hydrology From Space: Scientific Advances and Future Challenges

Reviews of Geophysics, Volume 59, Issue 4, December 2021., 2021
Abstract As the largest river basin on Earth, the Amazon is of major importance to the world's climate and water resources. Over the past decades, advances in satellite‐based remote sensing (RS) have brought our understanding of its terrestrial water cycle and the associated hydrological processes to a new era.
Alice César Fassoni‐Andrade, Ayan Santos Fleischmann, Fabrice Papa, Rodrigo Cauduro Dias de Paiva, Sly Wongchuig, John M. Melack, Adriana Aparecida Moreira, Adrien Paris, Anderson Ruhoff, Claudio Barbosa, Daniel Andrade Maciel, Evlyn Novo, Fabien Durand, Frédéric Frappart, Filipe Aires, Gabriel Medeiros Abrahão, Jefferson Ferreira‐Ferreira, Jhan Carlo Espinoza, Leonardo Laipelt, Marcos Heil Costa, Raul Espinoza‐Villar, Stéphane Calmant, Victor Pellet   +22 more
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On the Lack of Domestic Dogs in Pre‐Columbian Lowland Amazonia and Their Deep History of Entanglements With Humans in South America

The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 30, Issue 2, June 2025.
ABSTRACT Data from archaeology, ethnography, and ethnohistory document entanglements of dogs among South American Indigenous societies during pre‐Columbian and colonial times. The prolific presence and uses of dogs in the Central Andes and in parts of the Paraná Basin, Patagonia, and Circum‐Caribbean regions contrast with the conspicuous lack of ...
Marcelo R. Sánchez‐Villagra, Cristiana Bertazoni, Felipe Vander Velden   +2 more
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How personnel allocation affects performance: Evidence from Brazil's federal protected areas agency

Public Administration, Volume 102, Issue 3, Page 860-896, September 2024.
Abstract Many government agencies operate with fewer personnel than they need to perform effectively. Yet little research has explored how agencies might allocate their personnel so as to maximize performance with the personnel they have. I address this gap through a study of Brazil's federal protected areas agency, which manages the world's third ...
Gus Greenstein
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Freshwater megafauna shape ecosystems and facilitate restoration

Biological Reviews, Volume 99, Issue 4, Page 1141-1163, August 2024.
ABSTRACT Freshwater megafauna, such as sturgeons, giant catfishes, river dolphins, hippopotami, crocodylians, large turtles, and giant salamanders, have experienced severe population declines and range contractions worldwide. Although there is an increasing number of studies investigating the causes of megafauna losses in fresh waters, little attention
Fengzhi He, Jens‐Christian Svenning, Xing Chen, Klement Tockner, Tobias Kuemmerle, Elizabeth le Roux, Marcos Moleón, Jörn Gessner, Sonja C. Jähnig   +8 more
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A sampling technique for worldwide comparisons of language contact scenarios. [PDF]

Linguist Typol, 2023
Di Garbo F, Napoleão de Souza R.
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A genomic perspective on South American human history. [PDF]

Genet Mol Biol, 2022
Silva MACE, Ferraz T, Hünemeier T.
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The social lives of isolates (and small language families): the case of the Northwest Amazon. [PDF]

Interface Focus, 2023
Van Gijn R, Norder S, Arias L, Emlen NQ, Azevedo MCBC, Caine A, Dunn S, Howard A, Julmi N, Krasnoukhova O, Stoneking M, Wiegertjes J.   +11 more
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Deriving calibrations for Arawakan using archaeological evidence. [PDF]

Interface Focus, 2023
Michael L, de Carvalho F, Chacon T, Rybka K, Sabogal A, Chousou-Polydouri N, Kaiping G.   +6 more
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Population Histories and Genomic Diversity of South American Natives. [PDF]

Mol Biol Evol, 2022
Castro E Silva MA, Ferraz T, Couto-Silva CM, Lemes RB, Nunes K, Comas D, Hünemeier T.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source