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Medicinal plants at Rio Jauaperi, Brazilian Amazon: Ethnobotanical survey and e...
Pedrollo, Camilo Tomazini; Kinupp, Valdely Ferreira; Shepard, Glenn Harvey; Heinrich, Michael M.Study background The Amazon basin is a mosaic of different environments. Flooded riparian and upland forests play a significant role for the establishment of human settlements. Riparian communities in the Amazon have evolved depending on the use of plants applied for therapeutic purposes, thus developing important knowledge about their management and preparation. Aim of the study This paper describes and analyz...
The floating forest: Traditional knowledge and use of matupá vegetation islands...
Freitas, Carolina T. de; Shepard, Glenn Harvey; Piedade, Maria Teresa FernandezMatupás are floating vegetation islands found in floodplain lakes of the central Brazilian Amazon. They form initially from the agglomeration of aquatic vegetation, and through time can accumulate a substrate of organic matter sufficient to grow forest patches of several hectares in area and up to 12 m in height. There is little published information on matupás despite their singular characteristics and importa...
Differential resilience of Amazonian otters along the Rio Negro in the aftermat...
Pimenta, Natalia Camps; Antunes, André Pinassi; Barnett, Adrian Ashton; Macedo, Valêncio W.; Shepard, Glenn HarveyCommercial hunting for the international trade in animal hides in the 20th century decimated many populations of aquatic wildlife in Amazonia. However, impacts varied significantly between different species and regions, depending upon hunting intensity, accessibility of habitat, and the inherent resilience of various species and their habitats. We investigated the differential responses of two Amazonian Musteli...
The international trade in wild animals skins from the Brazilian Amazon in the ...
Antunes, André Pinassi; Shepard, Glenn Harvey; Venticinque, Eduardo MartinsThroughout the 20th century, an international trade in animal hides resulted in the slaughter of millions of mammals and reptiles in the Amazon. Animal hides were purchased from extractivists through a network of traveling river merchants in a regime of debt peonage known as aviamento, carried from trade posts in the hinterlands to warehouses in Manaus and Belém, and then exported to the United States, Europe a...
Participatory monitoring and management of subsistence hunting in the Piagaçu-P...
Vieira, Marina Albuquerque Regina de Mattos; Von-Mühlen, Eduardo Matheus; Shepard, Glenn HarveyThe Sustainable Development Reserve (RDS) model in Brazil provides legal context for monitoring wildlife with the involvement of local populations in gathering data and developing strategies for sustainable use. We present results of one year of self monitoring by hunters in five communities within the RDS-PP, discuss how the observed patterns reflect local hunting regulations, and suggest how this information ...
Pre-Columbian floristic legacies in modern homegardens of Central Amazonia
Lins, Juliana; Lima, Helena Pinto; Baccaro, Fabricio Beggiato; Kinupp, Valdely Ferreira; Shepard, Glenn Harvey; Clement, Charles RolandHistorical ecologists have demonstrated legacy effects in apparently wild landscapes in Europe, North America, Mesoamerica, Amazonia, Africa and Oceania. People live and farm in archaeological sites today in many parts of the world, but nobody has looked for the legacies of past human occupations in the most dynamic areas in these sites: homegardens. Here we show that the useful flora of modern homegardens is p...