Search Results - "Amazons"

Amblyomma parvum Aragão, 1908 (Acari: Ixodidae): Phylogeography and systematic considerations by Lado, Paula, Nava, Santiago, Labruna, Marcelo B., Szabó, Matías P.J., Durden, Lance A., Bermudez, Sergio, Montagna, Matteo, Sánchez Quirós, Ana C., Beati, Lorenza

“…The geographical distribution of Amblyomma parvum Aragão 1908 in the New World is disjunct, with two main clusters separated from each other by the Amazon basin. The main objectives of this study were to further investigate the systematic relationships within A. parvum, to determine whether or not populations from different geographical areas might represent cryptic species, and to reconstruct the phylogeographical evolutionary history of the species. …”
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Slitundersökning för jordbearbetning och sådd by Rehn, Claes, Staaf, Niklas

“…At disk harrow we have looked at Amazone Catros and Väderstad Carrier. We have made more detailed study on costs for wear parts, working depth, driving speed and diesel consumption. …”
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The comparative performance of land sharing, land sparing type interventions on place-based human well-being by Carmenta, Rachel, Steward, Angela, Albuquerque, Adrielly, Carneiro, Renan, Vira, Bhaskar, Estrada-Carmona, Natalia

“…This dataset describes the five most important constituents of human wellbeing listed by 270 head households – HH in the Brazilian Amazon. Households predominantly work in agriculture and are located across contrasting interventions, including sectoral (i.e., Protected Area – 70 HH, Soy conventional production – 60 HH) and integrated (i.e., Extractive reserve – 70 HH and National Forest – 70HH) efforts. …”
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Farming cattle in the tropics: Transnational science and industrializing pastures in Brazil by Nehring, Ryan

“…Whether it is deforestation in the Amazon or concentrated feedlots, the rancher and the cow have come to epitomize the dangers of a global industrial food system. …”
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An evolving paradigm of agricultural mechanization development: How much can Africa learn from Asia? by Diao, Xinshen, Takeshima, Hiroyuki, Zhang, Xiaobo

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Site-specific treatment of late-season weed escapes in rice utilizing a remotely piloted aerial application system by Gurjar, Bholuram, Sapkota, Bishwa, Torres, Ubaldo, Ceperkovic, Isidor, Kutugata, Matthew, Kumar, Virender, Zhou, Xin-Gen, Martin, Daniel, Bagavathiannan, Muthukumar

“…The weed species targeted were barnyardgrass, Amazon sprangletop, yellow nutsedge, and hemp sesbania. …”
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Assessment of Large Scale Land Cover Change Classifications and Drivers of Deforestation in Indonesia by Wijaya, A., Sugardiman, R., Budiharto, Tosiani, A., Murdiyarso, Daniel, Verchot, Louis V.

“…Indonesia possesses the third largest tropical forests coverage following Brazilian Amazon and Congo Basin regions. This country, however, suffered from the highest deforestation rate surpassing deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon in 2012. …”
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A comparative growth analysis study of four cacao varieties by Oyebade, I.T.

“…Las variedades de cacao estudiadas fueron F3 "Amazon", "Amelonado", y dos de las progenies de establecimiento CRIN "Elite" ("T7/12 x Na32" y "T65/7 x Na32"). …”
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BIOSMART Agri-environmental policy, silvopastoral systems, biodiversity, and climate change by Escobar, María Paula, Barnes, Andrew P., Garratt, Michael, Kinneen, Lois, Rosique Esplugas, Cristina, Sepúlveda, Ignacio, Thompson, Jill, Quintero, Marcela, Romero Sánchez, Miguel Antonio

“…BIOSMART1 is a 3-year interdisciplinary and international project focused on studying the implementation of silvopastoral systems (SPS)2 and other agrienvironmental schemes in the Colombian Amazon for the benefit of society, the environment, and the local economy. …”
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Time Series Application for Evapotranspiration and NDVI in Ucayali, Peru and Acre, Brazil by Galati, Valerie

“…This work was created by the University of Richmond Amazon Borderlands Spatial Analysis Team (ABSAT) and is a part of the NASA-SERVIR Amazonia project Quantifying the Effects of Forest Changes on Provisioning and Regulating Ecosystem Services. (2021-08-02)…”
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Devolution of natural resource management by CGIAR Program on Collective Action and Property Rights

“…From fishers in the Philippines to pastoralists in Morocco and rubber tappers in the Amazon, local communities have been actively participating in the management of natural resources. …”
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Forum de Belem "Desafios Para a Pesquisa Florestal na Amazonia", Belem, 14 a 15 de Junho de 1999: palestras e resumos

“…The discussions was divided into three sessions: 1. the first session is focused on big scale aspects of forest management such as forest policy, commercial exploitation of forests, industrial plantations. 2. the second session is more focused on local forest community level such as cooperative forest management, community forest management. 3. the third session debate was on global dimension and concern on Amazonian forest management such as globalization and the Brazilian Amazon, Amazonia and its role on the regional and global climate.…”
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Swidden-fallow agroforestry in Amazonian: diversity at close distance by Jong, W. de

“…Swidden-fallow agroforestry among ribereño farmers in the Peruvian Amazon has been reported to show important regional variation. …”
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Fish biodiversity research in the Mekong Basin by Baran, Eric, Chum, N., Fukushima, M., Hand,T., Hortle, K.G., Jutagate, T., Kang, B.

“…Baran (2010) recently showed that the Mekong River is the second richest river in the world for its fish diversity, after the Amazon River.…”
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The impact of SNP fingerprinting and parentage analysis on the effectiveness of variety recommendations in cacao by Padi, Francis K, Ofori, A., Takrama, J., Djan, E., Opoku, S.Y., Dadzie, A.M., Bhattacharjee, Ranjana, Motamayor, J., Zhang, D.

“…Parentage analysis supported the Amelonado ancestry of farmers’ varieties but with significant contribution of Upper Amazon introductions. Parentage of recently developed clones and of progenies of controlled crosses showed evidence of both pollen contamination and effects of mislabeled parents. …”
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Rehabilitación de áreas degradadas en la Amazonia peruana: Revisión de experiencias, lecciones aprendidas y recomendaciones by Meza López, Abel, Sabogal, César, Jong, Wil

“…The study looked at past and ongoing forest rehabilitation initiatives in the Peruvian Amazon, particularly those involving small-scale farmers. …”
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The government of Ucayali, Peru, adopts deforestation-free, low- emissions strategies to strengthen cocoa and palm oil value chains by Ivanova, Yovita

“…Both documents have been developed by the Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT in the framework of a project on “Business models to address drivers of deforestation in Peru” or Sustainable Amazon Businesses (SAB). Peru is implementing these sustainable business models in the agro-industry and livestock sectors to combat greenhouse gas emissions caused by deforestation. …”
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Low emission development strategies for agriculture and other land uses: The case of Colombia by De Pinto, Alessandro, Haruna, Akiko, Creamer, Bernardo, Hyman, Glenn, Li, Man, Kwon, Ho Young, Garcia, Jhon Brayan Valencia, Coca, Alejandro Castro, Tapasco, Jeimar, Martinez, Jesus David, Hoyos, Jesus David

“…We were able to identify policies covering the entire spectrum of potential outcomes: win-win policies (reduce land allocated to pasture), policies with tradeoffs (reduce deforestation in the Amazon) and policies that seem to generate clearly inferior results (increase the area allocate to palm cultivation).…”
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Protocol and participatory engagement strategy for acommunity-based research route focused on locally led adaptation capacities by Rodriguez, Luz Angela, Herrera, Johana, Soler, Andres, Vanegas Cubillos, Martha, Alvarez, Javier, Zuleta, Santiago

“…The municipality of La Montañita, in the department of Caquetá, part of the Colombian Amazon, is a predominantly rural area characterized by Amazonian hill landscapes, Andean foothills, and alluvial valleys, where smallholder agri-food systems coexist with highly fragmented remnants of natural forest. …”
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Sustainability of Brazilian forest concessions by Sist, P., Piponiot, C., Kanashiro, M., Pena-Claros, M., Putz, F.E., Schulze, M., Verissimo, A., Vidal, E.

“…Forest concessions in the Brazilian Amazon currently cover only 1.6 million ha (Mha) but we estimate the area of all potential concessions as 35 Mha. …”
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