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Knowledge coproduction to improve assessments of nature's contributions to people
Conservation Biology, Volume 37, Issue 6, December 2023., 2023 Abstract Sustainability science needs new approaches to produce, share, and use knowledge because there are major barriers to translating research into policy and practice. Multiple actors hold relevant knowledge for sustainability including indigenous and local people who have developed over generations knowledge, methods, and practices that ...
Améline Vallet +9 more
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Past human‐induced ecological legacies as a driver of modern Amazonian resilience
People and Nature, Volume 5, Issue 5, Page 1415-1429, October 2023., 2023 Abstract People have modified landscapes throughout the Holocene (the last c. 11,700 years) by modifying soils, burning forests, cultivating and domesticating plants, and directly and indirectly enriched and depleted plant abundances. These activities also took place in Amazonia, which is the largest contiguous piece of rainforest in the world, and for
Crystal N. H. McMichael +3 more
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Ecology and Evolution, Volume 13, Issue 7, July 2023., 2023 Our study focuses on the evolution of sexual dimorphism of UV vision in Heliconius butterflies. Under naturalistic light conditions, we experimentally altered UV‐light availability using light filters to test the hypothesis that, in H. erato, UV vision is important for oviposition, a female‐specific behavior.
Jose Borrero +3 more
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Journal of Biogeography, Volume 50, Issue 4, Page 685-698, April 2023., 2023 Abstract Aim The latitudinal biodiversity gradient is considered a first‐order biogeographical pattern for most taxonomic groups. Latitudinal variation in plant diversity is not always consistent, and this could be related to the particular characteristics of different forest types.
Julia G. de Aledo +8 more
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Cultivo Consorciado de Alface com Plantas Medicinais nas Condições Amazônicas
Agrarian, 2015 O objetivo deste trabalho foi avaliar o desempenho agronômico dos consórcios entre alface (Lactuca sativa L.) e hortelã-miúda (Mentha piperita) e alface e agrião (Rorippa nasturtium-aquaticum L.), em sistema orgânico de produção nas condições Amazônicas.
Antonia Mirian Nogueira de Moura Guerra +4 more
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Brazilian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2012 In order to treat hyperpigmentation-related problems, there has been a global trend in developing cosmetics claiming to have skin-whitening properties, which act by inhibiting melanin biosynthesis.
Raquel da Silva Teixeira +5 more
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Padrões de distribuição e especiação em Chrysobalanaceae e outras famílias de plantas amazônicas
Acta Botânica Brasílica, 1987 Neste trabalho são apresentados padrões de distribuição geográfica de espécies de Chrysobalanaceae, Caryocaraceae, Dichapetalaceae e Lecythidaceae.
Ghillean T Prance
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Sistemas agrícolas en suelos aluviales y su impacto en la economía de los shipibo-konibo en Ucayali
Manglar, 2020 Los suelos aluviales son importantes y productivos, a la vez poco conocidos en relación a sus características, rentabilidad, incertidumbres y condiciones económicas en las comunidades nativas amazónicas.
LUIS ANGEL COLLADO PANDURO +1 more
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Acta Amazonica, 2011 O objetivo deste trabalho foi designar o nome correto do afídeo que ataca palmáceas nativas amazônicas e descrever sua infestação. O monitoramento de insetos-praga em mudas e em plantas adultas permitiu a identificação de Cerataphis brasiliensis (Hempel,
Alexandre Mehl Lunz +4 more
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Posibles impactos de la carretera Iquitos-Saramiriza sobre la biodiversidad de Loreto, Perú
Revista Peruana de Biología, 2021 La construcción de la carretera Iquitos-Saramiriza proyectada en el departamento de Loreto plantea amenazas sobre la fauna y flora de una zona altamente biodiversa y poco alterada.
Leonardo Maffei, E. Daniel Cossios
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