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“When Everything was Forest”: Aikanã Histories and Environmental Destruction in Southern Amazonia
Alternautas, 2023 This article explores how the Aikanã, speakers of an isolate language, who live in the south-eastern Amazon, in the Brazilian State of Rondônia, make sense of the drastic transformations brought about by the colonisation of this region.
Lisa Grund
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New records of Boana icamiaba (Anura: Hylidae) in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest
Caldasia, 2019 Boana icamiaba is an Amazonian anuran species reported for sites in the mid-lower Madeira-Rio Tapajós River and lower Tapajós-Rio, and Xingu River interfluves – municipalities of Juruti, Altamira, Santarém, and Itaituba, state of Pará, northern Brazil ...
Samuel F. dos Anjos +6 more
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Conidial fungi associated with leaf litter of red cedar (Cedrela odorata) in Belém, Pará (eastern Brazilian Amazon) [PDF]
Acta Amazonica, 2018 The aim of this study was to investigate the species of conidial fungi associated with leaf litter of Cedrela odorata (Meliaceae), an endangered red cedar species typical of Amazonian terra-firme forests. Conidial fungi were sampled around C.
Renato Ferreira dos SANTOS +4 more
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Biotropica, 2010 ABSTRACTThere have been few reports of invasions in continental rain forests, especially for exotic animals. This study provides original data concerning the potential of exotic drosophilid species to colonize the Amazonian tropical rain forest. To investigate if the structure of drosophilid assemblages differed in response to anthropogenic disturbance,
Acurio, A. +2 more
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Caldasia, 2018 Ants inhabit and exploit the most varied habitats from the underground to the forest canopy. However, studies on the diversity of arboreal ants are less frequent in the Amazon.
Juciane Aparecida Focas-Leite +2 more
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Psyche: A Journal of Entomology, 2010 Knowledge about the species distribution of Epipompilus Kohl, 1884, is largely based on the records from the species description. Recent efforts in South American bodiversity studies indicate that knowledge about the distribution of Epipompilus species ...
Eduardo Fernando dos Santos +1 more
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Extreme high prevalence of a defective mannose-binding lectin (MBL2) genotype in native South American West Andean populations. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Mannose-binding lectin (MBL) is one of the five recognition molecules in the lectin complement pathway. Common variant alleles in the promoter and structural regions of the human MBL gene (MBL2) influence the stability and serum concentration of the ...
José Raul Sandoval +7 more
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Nomenclatural revision and typification of extra-Amazonian Tachigali (Leguminosae - Caesalpinioideae) [PDF]
Plant Ecology and EvolutionBackground and aims – The neotropical genus Tachigali comprises about 75 recorded species, including names described in Sclerolobium, synonymised in 1993 in Tachigali based on morphological, molecular, and anatomical characters. Most species are found in
Lara Serpa Jaegge Deccache +2 more
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Sociobiology, 2015 Three species of Psychodidae were collected in colonies of the fire ant Solenopsis virulens (Smith, 1858) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), in an area of atlantic forest on the south of Bahia State, Brazil.
Thalles Platiny Lavinscky Pereira +5 more
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PLoS ONE, 2020 The Amazonian and Atlantic Forest share several organisms that are currently isolated but were continuously distributed during the Quaternary period. As both biomes are under different climatic regimes, paleoclimatic events may have modulated species ...
Ricardo Ribeiro da Silva +6 more
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