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Alan Ferreira Leite de Lima, Milton César Costa Campos, Joalison de Brito Silva, Witória de Oliveira Araújo, Bruno Campos Mantovanelli, Fernando Gomes de Souza, Raphael Moreira Beirigo, Douglas Marcelo Pinheiro da Silva, Rodrigo Santana Macedo and Flávio Pereira de Oliveira
The processes of occupation and exploitation in the Amazon have been increasing, and as a consequence, forest areas are being replaced by agroecosystems. As a consequence of this change, changes have been occurring in the soil attributes, and consequentl...
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Jeferson Alberto de Lima and Kelly Cristina Tonello
This study aimed to investigate how sustainable forest management can affect litter hydrological properties. We investigated the net precipitation, litter mass, water-holding capacity, effective water-holding and retention capacity, maximum water retenti...
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Sergio Llerena-Montoya, Andrés Velastegui-Montoya, Bryan Zhirzhan-Azanza, Viviana Herrera-Matamoros, Marcos Adami, Aline de Lima, Francisco Moscoso-Silva and Luis Encalada
The Ecuadorian Amazon is considered a biodiverse region, and at the same time contains the largest number of oil blocks and oilfields in the country. Oil exploitation requires the implementation of oil facilities and related infrastructure, such as roads...
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Tiago M. Condé, Niro Higuchi and Adriano J. N. Lima
Illegal selective logging and forest fires occur on a large scale in the northern Brazilian Amazon, contributing to an increase in tree mortality and a reduction in forest carbon stock. A total of 120 plots of 0.25 ha (30 ha) were installed in transition...
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Carlos Valério Aguiar Gomes,Ane Alencar,Jacqueline Michelle Vadjunec,Leonardo Marques Pacheco
The Brazilian Amazon contains the largest remaining contiguous forest in the tropics, but also faces strong development pressures and one of the highest rates of deforestation in the world. In the 30 years since the murder of the rubber tapper leader Chi...
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Philip Martin Fearnside,Euler Melo Nogueira,Aurora Miho Yanai
Extractive reserves in the Amazon Forest maintain carbon stocks out of the atmosphere, thereby avoiding greenhouse-gas emissions that provoke global warming. This and other environmental services, such as recycling water and maintaining biodiversity, pro...
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Karen A. Kainer,Lucia H. O. Wadt,Christina L. Staudhammer
In the last three decades, Brazil nut (Bertholletia excelsa) has emerged as a cornerstone species for Amazonia. This has gone hand-in-hand with the creation of extractive reserves, an alternative land use model to balance biodiversity conservation with r...
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Bartolomeo Sebastiani and Stefano Falcinelli
Analytical data concerning the contamination on three officinal plants due to Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), as organochlorine pesticides, are reported and discussed. Analyzed vegetation??Graviola? (Annona muricata), ?Mullaca? (Physalis ...
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Chuck Sturtevant
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The documentary film Habilito: Debt for Life provides a case study of the conflicts and tensions that arise at the point of contact between highland migrants and Mosetenes, members of an indigenous community in the Bolivian Amazon. It focuses particularl...
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Marcia C. Branciforti, Alessandra L. Marinelli, Marcio Kobayashi, Jose D. Ambrosio, Marcos R. Monteiro and Antonio D. Nobre
The Amazon Rain Forest has attracted worldwide attention due its large scale services to climate and also due to the green house gas emissions arising from deforestation. Contributing to the later and detrimental to the former, timber logging in the regi...
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