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The role of voluntary certification in maintaining the ecologically unequal exchange of wood pulp: the Forest Stewardship Council's certification of industrial tree plantations in Brazil

Journal of Political Ecology, 2016
Voluntary certification schemes have grown in popularity since the late 1980s. Today, a large number of consumer items from coffee and chocolate to oil palm and soya products carry labels that supposedly attest their contribution to promoting fair trade ...
Jutta Kill
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Urban pollution greatly enhances formation of natural aerosols over the Amazon rainforest

Nature Communications, 2019
One of the least understood aspects in atmospheric chemistry is how urban emissions influence the formation of natural organic aerosols, which affect Earth’s energy budget.
M. Shrivastava, M. Andreae, P. Artaxo, H. Barbosa, L. Berg, J. Brito, J. Ching, R. Easter, Jiwen Fan, J. Fast, Zhe Feng, J. Fuentes, M. Glasius, A. Goldstein, E. Alves, H. Gomes, D. Gu, A. Guenther, S. Jathar, Saewung Kim, Y. Liu, S. Lou, S. Martin, V. McNeill, A. Medeiros, Suzane S. de Sá, J. Shilling, S. Springston, R. Souza, J. Thornton, G. Isaacman-VanWertz, L. Yee, R. Ynoue, R. Zaveri, A. Zelenyuk, Chun Zhao   +35 more
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Emerging arboviruses in the urbanized Amazon rainforest

British medical journal, 2020
Degradation of rainforest, extreme weather events, and climate change affect the spread of mosquito borne diseases like dengue, chikungunya, and Zika, write Rachel Lowe and colleagues.
R. Lowe, Sophie A. Lee, Raquel Martins Lana, Cláudia Torres Codeço, M. Castro, Mercedes Pascual   +5 more
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The Progressive Spread of the Vascular Wilt Like Pathogen of Calophyllum Detected in Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar

Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2020
Pathogens are threatening crops worldwide, but little attention has been given to the threat to tree species in undisturbed rainforest. This communication reports the first case of a tree die off caused by a “wilt” in Madagascar. In 2016 while monitoring
Patricia Chapple Wright, Patricia Chapple Wright, Beatriz Otero Jimenez, Beatriz Otero Jimenez, Paul Rakotonirina, Dina H. Andriananoely, Alexandra Shea, Baovola Ratalata, Jean Claude Razafimahaimodison   +8 more
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Comparative studies of the proximate composition, and anti-nutritional factors of Garcinia kola

Journal of Food and Bioprocess Engineering, 2022
The study was undertaken to determine the comparative studies on the proximate composition and anti-nutritional factors of Garcinia kola. The proximate composition and anti-nutritional factors were performed on the seed kernel, fruit pulp, and the fruit ...
Olufunmilayo Oyenike Oyewale, Olubukola Adebowale Akangbe, Gabriel Tolulope Akinwale, Olakunle Danladi Oladipupo   +3 more
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An Amazonian rainforest and its fragments as a laboratory of global change

Biological Reviews of The Cambridge Philosophical Society, 2018
We synthesize findings from one of the world's largest and longest‐running experimental investigations, the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project (BDFFP).
W. Laurance, J. Camargo, P. Fearnside, T. Lovejoy, G. B. Williamson, Rita C. G. Mesquita, C. F. Meyer, P. Bobrowiec, S. Laurance   +8 more
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Climate Change Affects Reproductive Phenology in Lianas of Australia’s Wet Tropics

Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2022
Lianas are increasing in abundance in many tropical forests. This increase can alter forest structure and decrease both carbon storage and tree diversity via antagonistic relationships between lianas and their host trees.
Nara O. Vogado, Jayden E. Engert, Tore L. Linde, Mason J. Campbell, William F. Laurance, Michael J. Liddell   +5 more
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Termites mitigate the effects of drought in tropical rainforest

Science, 2019
Forest termites mitigate the effects of drought In many tropical regions, where drought is predicted to become more frequent in the coming years, termites are key components of ecosystem function. Ashton et al.
L. Ashton, L. Ashton, L. Ashton, H. Griffiths, Catherine L. Parr, Catherine L. Parr, Catherine L. Parr, Theodore A. Evans, Raphael K. Didham, Raphael K. Didham, F. Hasan, Y. Teh, H. Tin, C. Vairappan, Paul Eggleton   +14 more
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Comparative isotope ecology of western Amazonian rainforest mammals

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020
Significance Closed-canopy rainforests are important for climate and ecology, yet identifying this ecosystem in the fossil record is challenging. An existing paradigm for identification of closed-canopy rainforests using fossil mammal carbon isotope data
Julia V. Tejada, J. J. Flynn, P. Antoine, V. Pacheco, R. Salas‐Gismondi, T. Cerling   +5 more
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Stasis and Stillness

Press Start, 2020
This paper represents an initiatory investigation into moments of inaction in games. Two types of inaction are defined and discussed: stasis, which is inaction brought on by or through a game’s mechanics, and stillness, which is brought on by or through ...
Rainforest Scully-Blaker
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