Amazonian forest
Analysing Amazonian forest productivity using a new individual and trait-based model (TFS v.1)
... controlling Amazonian forest dynamics, we have here attempted to in- corporate within TFS the relevant observed associations be- tween functional trait diversity, stand-structure and soil phys- ical and ...
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Synthesis of the first 10 years of long-term ecological research in Amazonian Forest ecosystem: implications for conservation and management
... in Amazonian Forest. We elucidate the natural dynamics of forest ecosystem processes and associated biota, and its changes caused by distinct pressures of selective timber extraction and ...
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Spatial distribution and functional significance of leaf lamina shape in Amazonian forest trees
... mature forest with natural gap-phase dynamics and a canopy dominated by non-pioneer species and, furthermore, none of the plots is believed to have experienced any recent human- caused ...
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Persistent effects of pre Columbian plant domestication on Amazonian forest composition
... six Amazonian regions, the relative and absolute richness of domesticated species decreased with distance from archaeological sites or rivers, and in three of these four regions the relative and absolute abundance ...
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Basin-wide variations in foliar properties of Amazonian forest: phylogeny, soils and climate
... Plants are the central link in the soil-plant-atmosphere con- tinuum, utilising and cycling a range of atmospherically (C, H, O, and N) or geologically (P, Ca, K) derived elements (Jobbagy and Jackson, 2004). Plant ...
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Basin-wide variations in foliar properties of Amazonian forest: phylogeny, soils and climate
... Relationship between simulated known plot effects and those retrieved by the REML procedure for leaf mass per unit leaf area MA, phosphorus and magnesium c SMA slopes Slope from REML der[r] ...
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Soil Carbon Stocks under Amazonian Forest: Distribution in the Soil Fractions and Vulnerability to Emission
... the forest ecosystem studied from managed en- vironments, which feature carbon enrichment in the fine ...of forest studied has amounts of carbon in soil labile fractions that are common in well-preserved ...
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Investigation of a possible malaria epidemic in an illegal gold mine in French Guiana: an original approach in the remote Amazonian forest
... Several hypotheses were proposed to explain this sig- nal. The first hypothesis was an increase in the number of garimpeiros working in FG, responsible for either a sim- ple increase of the absolute number of malaria ...
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Hyperdominance in Amazonian forest carbon cycling
... Sierra, Bolivia. 29 Facultad de Ciencias Agrı´colas, Universidad Auto ´noma Gabriel Rene´ Moreno, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. 30 Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Apartado 7945, ...
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Increasing biomass in Amazonian forest plots
... of Amazonian plots, it is important to consider whether our approach for assessing the significance of the overall trend is statistically ...tropical forest climates, soils, productivity, species richness ...
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An Amazonian forest and its fragments as a laboratory of global change
... D’Angelo S, Andrade A, Laurance SG, Laurance WF, Mesquita R 2004 Inferred causes of tree mortality in fragmented and intact Amazonian forests.. da Silva JMC, Tabarelli M 2000 Tree specie[r] ...
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Disease concepts and treatment by tribal healers of an Amazonian forest culture
... The eradication of shamanism as an institution of "witch- craft" was central to efforts of missionary activities in many Amazonian societies [33]. The use of tobacco, rat- tles, and chants in Trio healing ...
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Increasing dominance of large lianas in Amazonian forests
... Mature Amazonian forest plots have therefore undergone sub- stantial change in functional ...0.1-ha forest samples surveyed between 1971 and 1997, in which every tree and liana > ...
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Reproductive phenology of Carapa guianensis Aubl. (Meliaceae) in two forest areas of the Central Amazon
... agreement with what was verified for most of the species assessed in the ADFR [2] and for species assessed in an area near Belém - Pará [28]. However, the production of mature fruits of C. guianensis, in both study ...
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Amazonian Struggles for Recognition
... abovementioned Amazonian forest peoples’ identity categories and their incorporation into practices of techniques of the self – forging new subjectivities and kinds of citizen through struggles for ...
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Phylogenetic diversity of Amazonian tree communities
... Previous studies have indicated strong habitat specializa- tion in white-sand communities as indicated by the high number of individuals that represent white-sand specialist species (Fine et al., 2010), and by the ...
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The vegetation history of an Amazonian domed peatland
... change from palm swamp to tahuampa flooded forest which represents a re-commencement of deep (up to 5 m) seasonal flooding. There also appears to be a common trajectory with regard to the development of the ...
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Franz Caspar and the Amazonian languages
... Although especially known for his anthropological and ethnographic publications, Caspar also collected extensive language materials, containing lists of words and phrases of [r] ...
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Spectroscopic and chemical analysis of burnt earth under Amazonian homegarden systems and anthropic Amazonian dark soils
... anthropic Amazonian Dark soil was investigated for comparison with burnt earth soils and showed intermediate values in relation to the other two studied samples for the most of the chemical attributes as pH, total ...
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Characterization and antioxidant activity of Amazonian woods
... that Amazonian woods are generally believed to possess no commercial value, but many valuable woods are found in Amazonian ...sustainable forest management will be introduced. To preserve the Amazon ...
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