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A semente de urucum é usada desde os tempos pré-colombianos por comunidades indígenas brasileiras e de outros países tropicais para a pintura do corpo, para proteger contra insetos e aplicação medicinal (Castro et al., 2009). Recentemente, sua disseminação em várias partes do mundo está relacionada com sua propriedade de corante natural de amplo ...
Fernanda Barbisan +1 more
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Stemflow Dynamics in the Jamari National Forest (Brazilian Amazon): I. The Role of Tree Structure
Biotropica, Volume 58, Issue 3, May 2026.A portion of rainfall that contacts tree canopies is drained down tree stems as stemflow. Stemflow is an underexamined component of rainfall partitioning in tropical forests. To investigate how tree canopy structural attributes influence stemflow in the Brazilian Amazon, we measured stemflow, rainfall, and dendrometric parameters of 56 trees in the ...
Jeferson Alberto de Lima +5 more
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Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Volume 2013, Issue 1, 2013., 2013 Increases in ethnobotanical studies and knowledge in recent decades have led to a greater and more accurate interpretation of the overall patterns related to the use of medicinal plants, allowing for a clear identification of some ecological and cultural phenomena.
Deyvson Rodrigues Cavalcanti +2 more
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Diversity and Distributions, Volume 31, Issue 12, December 2025.ABSTRACT Aim We address a critical gap in the elevational community ecology of tropical non‐volant mammals in the Australian and Oceanian zoogeographic realms. Specifically, we document alpha and beta diversity, environmental predictors and community composition of individual clades in relation to their ecology and evolutionary history along an ...
František Vejmělka +7 more
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Ethnopharmacology of Medicinal Plants of the Pantanal Region (Mato Grosso, Brazil)
Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Volume 2012, Issue 1, 2012., 2012 Traditional knowledge is an important source of obtaining new phytotherapeutic agents. Ethnobotanical survey of medicinal plants was conducted in Nossa Senhora Aparecida do Chumbo District (NSACD), located in Poconé, Mato Grosso, Brazil using semi‐structured questionnaires and interviews.
Isanete Geraldini Costa Bieski +7 more
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Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology, 2009 Annatto extract is a natural food color obtained from the outer coatings of the seeds of the Annatto tree (Bixa orellana L.). This is the first report in the literature that shows the relationship between the aqueous annatto extract and its influence on ...
Heberth de Paula +5 more
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Elaphoglossum discolor (Kuhn) C.Chr. (Dryopteridaceae, Polypodiales, Monilophyta): first record for the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil [PDF]
Check List, 2015 Elaphoglossum discolor was recently discovered and collected on the Urucum plateau of the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul, lying in the western outskirts of the Pantanal flood plain. This is the southernmost distribution of E. discolor in Brazil.
Carlos Lehn, Elton Assis, Danilo Neves
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Adoção das práticas de conservação "on farm" e de seleção de variedades pelos produtores de urucum no município de Vitória da Conquista – BA. [PDF]
, 2010 Este trabalho tem por objetivo identificar as práticas da conservação on farm, bem como seleção de variedades de urucum pelos agricultores no município de Vitória da Conquista – BA.
Amaral, Cláudio Lúcio Fernandes +3 more
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Paint and Coloring Materials from the Brazilian Amazon Forest: Beyond Urucum and Jenipapo
Heritage, 2023 The Brazilian Legal Amazon region is divided into at least 155 ethnic groups and has the largest concentration of Indigenous people globally. It represents one of the most extraordinary levels of human, cultural, and artistic diversity, but its material culture is one of the least well-studied.
Thiago Sevilhano Puglieri +1 more
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