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Os jesuítas e seus sucessores (II): Moxos e Chiquitos - 1767-1830
A expulsão dos jesuítas por decreto de Carlos III (1767), exigiu da máquina burocrática espanhola na América, a criação de novas formas de relações entre índios missionados e brancos.
Uacury Ribeiro de Assis Bastos
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Mussurana bicolor (Peracca, 1904) (Squamata, Colubridae): additional country records and first list of voucher specimens from Bolivia [PDF]
We present country records and a list of voucher specimens for Mussurana bicolor (Peracca, 1904) (Serpentes, Colubridae) from Bolivia. There is scarce information on museum specimens and locality data from Bolivia for this species in the scientific ...
Luis Rolando Rivas +4 more
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Indigenous Modernities and the Performance of the Music of Bolivian Mission Archives the Ensamble Moxos [PDF]
During the seventeenth century the Jesuits established the missions of Moxos in what today is Bolivia. In these missions Western Baroque music was used as an instrument of evangelization, and after the expulsion of the Jesuits from Latin America in 1767 ...
Villamizar Rodriguez, Melba Felisa
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The native peoples of the Moxos region of modern Bolivia began a cultural transformation with their contact by Jesuit missionaries in the mid 17th century.
Block, David
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Neotectonics, flooding patterns and landscape evolution in southern Amazonia [PDF]
The paper examines the role of neotectonic activity in the evolution of the landscape in southern Amazonia during the Holocene. It uses both new and published data based on the analysis of remote sensing imagery and extensive field work in the Llanos de ...
U. Lombardo
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Abstract Methane (CH4) emissions from tropical wetlands represent half of the global wetland emissions, but uncertainties remain concerning the extent of tropical methane sources. One limitation is to conceive tropical wetlands as a single ecosystem, especially in global land surface models.
F. Murguia‐Flores +2 more
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ABSTRACT Uncertainty remains over local‐scale responses of ecotonal Amazonian forests to middle Holocene drying due to the scarcity, and coarse spatial resolution, of lacustrine pollen records. This paper examines the palaeoecological potential of soil phytoliths, stable carbon isotopes and charcoal for capturing local‐scale ecotonal responses of ...
James Hill +5 more
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INDIGENOUS ENGINEERING OF THE LLANOS DE MOXOS (BOLIVIA): EVIDENCE OF AN ANTHROPOGENIC AMAZON
Archaeological research conducted since the 20th century in the eastern Bolivian plains highlights the process of anthropogenization established between the indigenous groups of the Llanos de Moxos and the Amazonian landscape during the pre-colonial ...
Claro Moreira, Nathalia
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The Blue-throated Macaw (Ara glaucogularis) is a Critically Endangered species endemic to the Llanos de Moxos ecosystem of Beni, Bolivia. To aid conservation of the northwestern population that utilizes the Barba Azul Nature Reserve during the non ...
Lisa C. Davenport +8 more
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Abstract Atmospheric methane's rapid growth from late 2006 is unprecedented in the observational record. Assessment of atmospheric methane data attributes a large fraction of this atmospheric growth to increased natural emissions over the tropics, which appear to be responding to changes in anthropogenic climate forcing.
Euan G. Nisbet +16 more
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