Amazon environmental services: Why Brazil’s Highway BR-319 is so damaging
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DOI: 10.1007/s13280-022-01718-y
Abstract: Amazonia is recognized for its global importance in climate regulation and for its extraordinary biological and cultural diversity, including distinctions such as the UNESCO World Heritage site status of the Central Amazon Conservation Area. Unfortunately,… read more here.
Keywords: environmental services; government; area; amazonia ... See more keywords
Vegetation Change in Southwestern Amazonia (Brazil) and Relationship to the Late Pleistocene and Holocene Climate
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DOI: 10.1017/rdc.2016.107
Abstract: Abstract The Late Quaternary climate in Amazonia is an issue still open to debate, with hypotheses varying from alternate dry and wet episodes to stable climate with undisturbed rainforest. We approach this question using δ13C,… read more here.
Keywords: holocene; climate; change southwestern; amazonia ... See more keywords
Early Holocene crop cultivation and landscape modification in SW Amazonia
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DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2162-7
Abstract: The onset of plant cultivation is one of the most important cultural transitions in human history 1 – 4 . Southwestern Amazonia has previously been proposed as an early centre of plant domestication, on the… read more here.
Keywords: plant; landscape; cultivation; amazonia ... See more keywords
Territorial and mobility justice for Indigenous youth: accessing education in Ecuadorian Amazonia
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DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1987154
Abstract: Indigenous people of Ecuador have suffered for a long time from marginalisation in access to quality education, which for them means culturally and ecologically pertinent education close to their own communities. During the past decade,… read more here.
Keywords: territorial mobility; justice; mobility; amazonia ... See more keywords
Amazonia by steam
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DOI: 10.1086/721923
Abstract: In the 1890s, at the height of the rubber boom, steamboats dominate the rivers of Bolivian Amazonia. The technophile discourse of the period presents the steamer as a revolution that changes everything: it allows social… read more here.
Keywords: amazonia steam; amazonia; geography; anthropology ... See more keywords
A new species of Alopoglossus lizard (Squamata, Alopoglossidae) from the Southern Guiana Shield, northeastern Amazonia, with remarks on diagnostic characters to the genus.
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DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4422.1.2
Abstract: I describe a new species of Alopoglossus from the Southern Guiana Shield in northern Brazilian Amazonia. The new species morphologically resembles A. angulatus in having scales on sides of neck similar in shape to dorsals,… read more here.
Keywords: southern guiana; diagnostic characters; new species; species alopoglossus ... See more keywords
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi associated with the babassu palm (Attalea speciosa) in the eastern periphery of Amazonia, Brazil
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DOI: 10.1590/1809-4392201800092
Abstract: ABSTRACT Babassu, Attalea speciosa (Arecaceae) is a ruderal palm native to Amazonia, which turned dominant in frequently burned lands throughout the ‘arc of deforestation’ and other degraded lands, in extreme cases attaining complete dominance. This… read more here.
Keywords: attalea speciosa; mycorrhizal fungi; mycorrhizal; arbuscular mycorrhizal ... See more keywords
Origin and Dispersal of Domesticated Peach Palm
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DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2017.00148
Abstract: Peach palm (Bactris gasipaes Kunth) is the a Neotropical palm domesticated by Native Americans. Its domestication resulted in a set of landraces (var. gasipaes), some with very starchy fruit used for fermentation, others with an… read more here.
Keywords: palm; peach palm; origin; domestication ... See more keywords
Diversity of Treegourd (Crescentia cujete) Suggests Introduction and Prehistoric Dispersal Routes into Amazonia
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DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2017.00150
Abstract: The use and dispersal of domesticated plants may reflect patterns of early human diffusion of technologies and lifestyles. Treegourd (Crescentia cujete) has fruits with ancient utilitarian and symbolic value in the Neotropics. We assessed diversity… read more here.
Keywords: introduction; diversity; crescentia cujete; dispersal ... See more keywords
A new nurse frog of the Allobates tapajos species complex (Anura: Aromobatidae) from the upper Madeira River, Brazilian Amazonia
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DOI: 10.7717/peerj.13751
Abstract: Cryptic diversity is extremely common in widespread Amazonian anurans, but especially in nurse frogs of the genus Allobates. There is an urgent need to formally describe the many distinct but unnamed species, both to enable… read more here.
Keywords: upper madeira; allobates tapajos; new species; amazonia ... See more keywords