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Evapotranspiration seasonality across the Amazon Basin

... of Amazon forests is a main driver of regional climate patterns and an im- portant indicator of ecosystem ...over Amazon forests, and its relationship with environmental drivers, is still poorly ...Negro ...

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Using modelled discharge to develop satellite based river gauging: a case study for the Amazon Basin

... mote sensing signal for estimating river discharge (Braken- ridge et al., 2012; Revilla-Romero et al., 2014). Van Dijk et al. (2016) developed gauge-based SGRs using optical and passive microwave-derived water extent ...

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Amazon Basin forest pyrogenic carbon stocks: first estimate of deep storage

... the Amazon Basin of ...of Amazon forest soils is larger than previously approximated by Bird et ...pristine Amazon forest soils, as for PyC/TOC in our ...in Amazon forest fragments by ...

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Potential effects of climate change on inundation patterns in the Amazon Basin

... the Amazon region, temperature is projected to increase by up to ...the Amazon Basin and thus, the quality of precipitation projections is crucial for pro- jecting future inundation ...the ...

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Canopy scale biophysical controls of transpiration and evaporation in the Amazon Basin

... Restrepo-Coupe, N., da Rocha, H. R., Hutyra, L. R., da Araujo, A. C., Borma, L. S., Christoffersen, B., Cabral, O. M. R., de Ca- margo, P. B., Cardoso, F. L., da Costa, A. C. L., Fitzjarrald, D. R., Goulden, M. L., ...

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The role of the Amazon Basin moisture in the atmospheric branch of the hydrological cycle: a Lagrangian analysis

... the Amazon Basin over the year (left-hand ...the Amazon during AMM + ( − ) ...the Amazon, proba- bly due to enhanced VIMF convergent conditions configured over the eastern equatorial Pacific ...

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Birds, Beasts, and Botanicals: Organic Beads and Pendants from the Amazon Basin

... The Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has extensive recent collections from the Amazon Basin, with hundreds of necklaces, belts, aprons, and [r] ...

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Assessing the performance of global hydrological models for capturing peak river flows in the Amazon basin

... the Amazon basin for use in climate analysis and to identify the strengths and weaknesses which exist along the hydrological modelling chain in order to provide insight to model ...the Amazon may ...

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A Holocene black carbon ice-core record of biomass burning in the Amazon Basin from Illimani, Bolivia

... the Amazon Basin before 1999 cannot be as- sessed due to the lack of accurate biomass burning statistics from Bolivia and Brazil, where the number of active fires is retrieved from satellite data only ...

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Commercial traceability of Arapaima spp fisheries in the Amazon basin: can biogeochemical tags be useful?

... largest freshwater fish genus (Hrbek et al., 2007; Queiroz, 2000; Stone, 2007). The four described species (A. agas- sizii, A. mapae, A. leptosoma, and A. gigas) of this genus are endemic to the Amazon ...

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Past terrestrial water storage (1980–2008) in the Amazon Basin reconstructed from GRACE and in situ river gauging data

... Abstract. Terrestrial water storage (TWS) composed of surface waters, soil moisture, groundwater and snow where ap- propriate, is a key element of global and continental water cycle. Since 2002, the Gravity Recovery ...

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Validation and analysis of MOPITT CO observations of the Amazon Basin

... An example of the difference in TIR-only and TIR-NIR re- trievals of surface-level CO concentrations for a single MO- PITT overpass of the western Amazon Basin on 17 Septem- ber 2010 is shown in Fig. 1. The ...

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The impact of Amazonian deforestation on Amazon basin rainfall

... on Amazon basin ...the Amazon basin had been converted to pasture and agriculture (gross deforestation was about 15% of the original forest, with 25% of this area subsequently regenerating ...

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Unintended pregnancy in the amazon basin of Ecuador: a multilevel analysis

... In Ecuador, recent research suggests that 36.3% of all births are unintended (18.7% unwanted and 17.6% mis- timed). Differences between geographical areas are prominent, with the Amazon Basin displaying the ...

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Branch xylem density variations across the Amazon Basin

... the Amazon basin, site-specific differences have been noticed when comparing the same species grow- ing in different forests and/or site conditions (Wiemann and Williamson, 1989; Gonzalez and Fisher, 1998; ...

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Chemodiversity of dissolved organic matter in the Amazon Basin

... the Amazon Basin (Sioli, 1950; Junk, 1984), exhibit low DOM levels and are less acidic (pH ...water Amazon tributaries, the CDOM and suspended particle levels are typically very low in these ...the ...

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Statistical prediction of terrestrial water storage changes in the Amazon Basin using tropical Pacific and North Atlantic sea surface temperature anomalies

... Floods hinder ground transportation and damage crops and infrastructure in many regions in South America. The north- eastern Amazon is characterized by an extensive network of wetlands and floodplains (Prigent et ...

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Effect of artesunate mefloquine fixed dose combination in malaria transmission in amazon basin communities

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