Central Amazonia
Aerosol optical depth retrievals in central Amazonia from a multi-filter rotating shadow-band radiometer calibrated on-site
... in central Amazonia, up-wind from Manaus (02 ◦ 53 0 27 00 S, 59 ◦ 58 0 12 00 W; see ...natural Amazonia atmosphere conditions and the air pol- lution plume from ...
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Mapping hydrological environments in central Amazonia: ground validation and surface model based on SRTM DEM data corrected for deforestation
... that could act as depressions to the HAND algorithm. We also present HAND grids using 18 different drainage net- works automatically extracted from the corrected DEM. The HAND algorithm was initially tested in ...
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Molecular, morphological and acoustic identification of Eumops maurus and Eumops hansae (Chiroptera: Molossidae) with new reports from Central Amazonia
... the Central Brazilian Amazon, providing data on their external and craniodental morphology, DNA barcode (COI) sequences complemented by acoustic data for the ...for Central Amazonia as one individual ...
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First record of Micronycteris sanborni (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) from Central Amazonia, Brazil: range expansion and description of its echolocation
... The current known distribution range and habitat preferences of Micronycteris sanborni were based on only 11 records worldwide. This new record constitutes the first report of the species in the Central Amazon and ...
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Leaf phenology as one important driver of seasonal changes in isoprene emissions in central Amazonia
... To understand the pattern of isoprene seasonal fluxes in Ama- zonia is a difficult task when considering the important role of Amazonian forests in accounting for global BVOC and very limited field-based observations in ...
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Development of forest structure and leaf area in secondary forests regenerating on abandoned pastures in Central Amazonia
... The general positive correlation between forest disturbance and vine density (Hegarty and Caballé 1991; Schnitzer and Bongers 2002; Gerwing 2004) conflicts with our results for central Amazônian pasture regrowth. ...
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Eficiência no uso dos nutrientes por espécies pioneiras crescidas em pastagens degradadas na Amazônia central (Nutrient use efficiency of pioneer species grown on abandoned pastures in central Amazonia)
... 2002). Assim, vários aspectos ligados à eficiência fotossintética, como a utilização da energia luminosa, a assimilação de carbono, a regulação na absorção de água e de nutrientes, podem ser otimizados em função das ...
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An airborne regional carbon balance for Central Amazonia
... Andreae, M. O., Almeida, S. S., Artaxo, P., Branda, O. C, Carswell, F. E., Ciccioli, P., Culf, A., Esteves, J. L., Gash, J., Grace, J., Kabat, P., Lelieveld, J., Malhi, Y., Manzi, A. O., Meixner, F. X., Nobre, A. D., ...
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The distribution and amount of carbon in the largest peatland complex in Amazonia
... The PMFB in Northwest Peru contains the most exten- sive peatlands yet discovered in Amazonia [10]. It is a sub- siding foreland basin of c.100 000 km 2 formed during the Cenozoic uplift of the Andes [12 – 15] and ...
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Soils of Amazonia with particular reference to the RAINFOR sites
... in Amazonia has originated from the considerable differences in geology and geomor- phology history that occur across the ...lowland Amazonia, deeply transforming a previ- ously craton dominated land into ...
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River Network Rearrangements in Amazonia Shake Biogeography and Civil Security
... In the case of Amazonian fish species, the biogeographical relevance of rivers appears to be even less clear than for terrestrial animals. The recognized biogeographical units are not defined by river catchments but ...
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The distribution and amount of carbon in the largest peatland complex in Amazonia
... The PMFB in Northwest Peru contains the most exten- sive peatlands yet discovered in Amazonia [10]. It is a sub- siding foreland basin of c.100 000 km 2 formed during the Cenozoic uplift of the Andes [12 – 15] and ...
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The fate of Amazonia
... Aleixo and colleagues add empirical evidence of the factors which control tropical forest tree mortality. The study is based on two time-series which recorded the status of trees and climatic conditions on a monthly ...
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Necrotic Skin Infection by Sphingomonas Paucimobilis in Amazonia Region
... aerobic with a rare occurrence. We present a case in an immunocompetent man successfully treated by surgical debridement, purulent drainage and with an associated course of antibiotics. A large necrotic infection, ...
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Medicinal use of fauna by a traditional community in the Brazilian Amazonia
... We found several similarities and differences between our data and those of other studies in other regions of Brazil and abroad (see references for some of those studies in Table 2). The same uses in distant areas of ...
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COVID-19 and Amazonia: Sustainable alternatives for an economic collapse
... the Amazonia natural resources by the agrobusiness and mining sectors is historically used as the main strategy to guarantee progress and economic growth in Brazil, it is expected that this also occurs during the ...
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Recent Extremes of Drought and Flooding in Amazonia: Vulnerabilities and Human Adaptation
... in Amazonia was one of the worst on record ...western Amazonia indicate that there was an increase in the number of hospital admissions and the cost of treatments for both respiratory illnesses and wa- ...
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The value of language and the language of value: a view from Amazonia
... The white presence and the degree of development of the market economy in Iauaretê (the mission center of the Vaupés area) grew remarkably toward the end of the 1990s. Indians—like the late Cândido Brito—who live in ...
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A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia
... Murui consonants and their distribution are discussed in §2.1.1. The vowel inventory of the language is based on a six vowel system that consists of, among other sounds, the high central vowel ɨ . This trait seems ...
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Laurentia Baltica Amazonia relations during Rodinia assembly
... and Amazonia as well as Baltica and Amazonia and a similar timing between opposing colliding cratons would be ...in Amazonia is discrete from orogenesis in Laurentia, although it does overlap with ...
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