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Cost-effective protection of biodiversity in the western Amazon

Biological Conservation, 2019
The western Amazon needs to expand its protected-area system to ensure the conservation of its immense and threatened biodiversity. However, potential expansions often meet with resistance because of scarce government resources and competing social priorities.
Janeth Lessmann, Javier Fajardo, Elisa Bonaccorso, Aaron Bruner   +3 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Balancing tracks and trees: Assessing railroad impact on Brazilian biodiversity

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
The Brazilian West–East Integration Railway (FIOL) aims to boost the national economy by improving commodity transport; however, it crosses three of Brazil's most biodiverse and fragile regions: the Caatinga, Cerrado and Atlantic Forest. Using digitised plant records and land‐use analyses, our study reveals significant vegetation loss within the ...
Ana Luiza Silva Rocha, Anselmo Nogueira, Matheus Colli‐Silva, Juliana Gastaldello Rando   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

MLens: Advancing the Real-Time Detection, Identification, and Counting of Pathogenic Microparasites Through a Web Interface

Parasitologia
In this study, a diverse collection of images of myxozoans from the genera Henneguya and Myxobolus was created, providing a practical dataset for application in computer vision.
Gustavo Souza Carneiro, Karoliny Caldas Xavier, José Ledamir Sindeaux-Neto, Alanna do Socorro Lima da Silva, Michele Velasco Oliveira da Silva   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Small-scale farms in the western Brazilian Amazon: can they benefit from carbon trade? [PDF]

Recently scientists have started to examine how land-uses and land-use technologies can help mitigate carbon emissions. The half million small-scale farmers inhabiting the Amazon frontier sequester large stocks of carbon in their forests and other land ...
Carpentier, Chantal Line, Vosti, Steve, Witcover, Julie   +2 more
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Tertiary Climate Change and the Diversification of the Amazonian Gecko Genus Gonatodes (Sphaerodactylidae, Squamata) [PDF]

, 2008
The genus Gonatodes is a monophyletic group of small-bodied, diurnal geckos distributed across northern South America, Central America, and the Caribbean.
Colli, Guarino R., Gamble, Tony, Simons, Andrew M., Vitt, Laurie J.   +3 more
core   +1 more source

A pilot variational coupled reanalysis based on the CESAM climate model

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, EarlyView.
Variational data assimilation of in‐situ and satellite ocean data and reanalysis atmospheric data into an intermediate complexity Earth system model is possible by adjusting the surface fluxes and internal model parameters. This pilot application requires nearly complete information on the atmospheric state for synchronization.
Armin Köhl, Iuliia Polkova, Guokun Lyu, Frank Lunkeit, Abhirup Banerjee, Silke Schubert, Detlef Stammer   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Wood density of forest species in integrated crop-livestock-forest system in the Brazilian Amazon: challenges and opportunities for Bertholletia excelsa, Dipteryx odorata, and Khaya grandifoliola

Revista Brasileira de Ciências Ambientais
Wood density is the physical property directly related to the timber potential of a species and influences the environmental service of carbon storage and sequestration. Therefore, the objective of this study was to evaluate the wood density at different
Lizandra Elizeário dos Santos, Carlos Tadeu dos Santos Dias, Emanuel José Gomes de Araújo, Aureane Cristina Teixeira Ferreira Cândido, Paulo Campos Christo Fernandes, Arystides Resende Silva, Afonso Henrique Moraes Oliveira, Victor Hugo Pereira Moutinho, Lucieta Guerreiro Martorano   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Assimilation of solar‐induced fluorescence satellite observations in the European Centre for Medium‐Range Weather Forecasts integrated forecast system

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, EarlyView.
This work demonstrates the potential of the assimilation of satellite solar‐induced fluorescence (SIF) retrievals at eight‐day and 0.1° resolutions in the integrated forecast system (IFS), developed at the European Centre for Medium‐Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), at global scale, to provide a more realistic representation of the vegetation temporal ...
Sébastien Garrigues, Patricia de Rosnay, Peter Weston, Christoph Rüdiger, Cédric Bacour, David Fairbairn, Pierre Vanderbecken, Oscar Rojas‐Munoz, Ewan Pinnington, Anna Agusti‐Panareda, Souhail Boussetta, Jean‐Christophe Calvet, Richard Engelen   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Wall‐to‐wall Amazon forest height mapping with Planet NICFI, Aerial LiDAR, and a U‐Net regression model

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
Tree canopy height is a key indicator of forest biomass and structure, yet accurate mapping across the Amazon remains challenging. Here, we generated a canopy height map of the Amazon forest at ~4.8 m resolution using Planet NICFI imagery and a deep learning U‐Net model trained with airborne LiDAR data.
Fabien H. Wagner, Ricardo Dalagnol, Griffin Carter, Mayumi C. M. Hirye, Shivraj Gill, Le Bienfaiteur Sagang Takougoum, Samuel Favrichon, Michael Keller, Jean P. H. B. Ometto, Lorena Alves, Cynthia Creze, Stephanie P. George‐Chacon, Shuang Li, Zhihua Liu, Adugna Mullissa, Yan Yang, Erone G. Santos, Sarah R. Worden, Martin Brandt, Philippe Ciais, Stephen C. Hagen, Sassan Saatchi   +21 more
wiley   +1 more source

On Avatar: digital commerce as activist pedagogy? [PDF]

, 2013
Contemporary media allow digital environments to function as transnational classrooms, a multidimensional public sphere accessible to people with Internet connection.
Tzanelli, R
core   +1 more source