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Wildfires in bamboo-dominated Amazonian forest: impacts on above-ground biomass and biodiversity.
PLoS ONE, 2012 Fire has become an increasingly important disturbance event in south-western Amazonia. We conducted the first assessment of the ecological impacts of these wildfires in 2008, sampling forest structure and biodiversity along twelve 500 m transects in the ...
Jos Barlow +9 more
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Dry‐Season Water Deficits in the Southwestern Amazon Under High Emissions
International Journal of Climatology, EarlyView.Projected climatic water deficit in the study region indicates a longer and more intense dry season, with delays in the onset of the wet season under higher emission scenarios. These changes, particularly, pronounced under SSP5‐8.5, suggest increased ecological vulnerability and greater seasonal water stress.
Débora J. Dutra +18 more
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Multi-decadal trends in global terrestrial evapotranspiration and its components [PDF]
, 2016 Evapotranspiration (ET) is the process by which liquid water becomes water vapor and energetically this accounts for much of incoming solar radiation. If this ET did not occur temperatures would be higher, so understanding ET trends is crucial to predict
Chiew, Francis HS +11 more
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Sampling design may obscure species–area relationships in landscape-scale field studies [PDF]
, 2020 We investigated 1) the role of area per se in explaining anuran species richness on reservoir forest islands, after controlling for several confounding factors.
Bueno, Anderson Saldanha +3 more
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Spatiotemporal Fire Patterns and Post‐fire Forest Change in Peru (2000–2021)
Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Fire is increasingly more frequent and severe in many tropical regions, leading to significant forest loss, diminished biodiversity, and reduced Nature's contributions to people (NCPs). In this study, we analyzed the spatiotemporal patterns of fire in Peru and its regions, focusing on: (1) burned area, (2) size, and (3) number of fires, using ...
Maricel Móstiga +3 more
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Urbanization and food transition in the Brazilian Amazon: From wild to domesticated meat
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Urbanization is expected to influence food transitions, resulting in a shift from wild foods to more domesticated foods. Concomitantly, food insecurity and urban demand for natural resources, including wildlife, are expected to increase overall, even when the per capita consumption is expected to decrease.
Willandia A. Chaves +7 more
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Reducing the deforestation of the Amazon through farming system intensification [PDF]
, 2008 The Amazon has become the last Far West of the planet. Today, the attention is focused on some sectors in which the region plays a major role: the mineral richness of the soil - especially hydro fuels - biodiversity, climate change and the coca ...
Bommel, Pierre +5 more
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract The drivers of consumer demand for bushmeat are relatively well studied in tropical forest systems, but much less so in savanna areas. This is important because differing ecological and socio‐economic conditions lead to different factors affecting the relationship between local communities and their natural resources.
Hannah N. K. Sackey +3 more
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Spatial trends in leaf size of Amazonian rainforest trees [PDF]
Biogeosciences, 2009 Leaf size influences many aspects of tree function such as rates of transpiration and photosynthesis and, consequently, often varies in a predictable way in response to environmental gradients.
A. C. M. Malhado +24 more
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Evolution of Philodendron (Araceae) species in Neotropical biomes [PDF]
PeerJ, 2016 Philodendron is the second most diverse genus of the Araceae, a tropical monocot family with significant morphological diversity along its wide geographic distribution in the Neotropics.
Leticia Loss-Oliveira +3 more
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