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Pervasive gaps in Amazonian ecological research
Carvalho, Raquel L.; Resende, Angelica F.; Barlow, Jos; França, Filipe M.; Moura, Mario R.; Maciel, Rafaella; Alves-Martins, Fernanda; Shutt, JackBiodiversity loss is one of the main challenges of our time,1,2 and attempts to address it require a clear un derstanding of how ecological communities respond to environmental change across time and space.3,4 While the increasing availability of global databases on ecological communities has advanced our knowledge of biodiversity sensitivity to environmental changes,5–7 vast areas of the tropics remain underst...
Large-scale Degradation of the Tocantins-Araguaia River Basin
Pelicice, Fernando Mayer; Agostinho, Angelo Antonio; Akama, Alberto; Andrade Filho, José Dilermando; Azevedo-Santos, Valter M. [UNESP]Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-28T19:42:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2021-10-01; The Tocantins-Araguaia Basin is one of the largest river systems in South America, located entirely within Brazilian territory. In the last decades, capital-concentrating activities such as agribusiness, mining, and hydropower promoted extensive changes in land cover, hydrology, and environmental condit...
Variações entre contagens de Arapaima gigas (Schinz) (Osteoglossomorpha, Osteog...
Arantes, Caroline Chaves; Castello, Leandro; Garcez, Danielle SequeiraCensusing of pirarucu (Arapaima gigas) is being increasingly used in conservation initiatives throughout the Amazon, and is done essentially by counting the individuals at the moment they come out of the water to breathe air. This ‘counting method’ was developed recently based on analyses of counts of pirarucu made by groups of knowledgeable and skillful fishers. But fishers vary with respect to their knowledge...
Balancing hydropower and biodiversity in the Amazon, Congo, and Mekong
O., Winemiller, K.; Brummett, Randall; Harrison, Ian; Stiassny, Melanie L.J.; Silvano, Renato A M; Fitzgerald, Daniel B.; Pelicice, Fernando M.