Search Results - "Amazons"

Latin America: A Model for the Global Plant Cryopreservation Initiative by Ellis, David, Vollmer, R., Souza, F.V.D., Azevedo, V.C.R.

“…From Mexico and the Caribbean, through Central America to the Amazon and Andes, Latin America’s botanical diversity contributes significantly to global food production and security, as it is the region of domestication for crops essential to human survival, including maize, potato, cassava, sweet potato, and beans. …”
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Future Scenarios as a Tool for Collaboration in Forest Communities by Evans, K., Jong, W. de, Cronkleton, P.

“…The paper reviews a growing body of literature on future scenarios and shares first-hand experiences with future scenarios in forest communities in the northern Bolivia Amazon and the central provinces of Vietnam. It finds that under the right conditions, the use of future scenarios allows forest communities to collaborate more effectively with local government, better assume responsibilities when given control over forests under devolution schemes and self-organize to benefit from the opportunities that communal control over forests offer. …”
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Allocation of hunting effort by Amazonian smallholders: implications for conserving wildlife in mixed-use landscapes by Parry, L., Barlow, J., Peres, C.A.

“…We investigated subsistence hunting patterns across a highly heterogeneous landscape mosaic in the Brazilian Amazon, where hunters from three villages had access to primary forest, active and fallow agricultural fields, and active and fallow Eucalyptus plantations. …”
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Graduate students and knowledge exchange with local stakeholders: possibilities and preparation by Duchelle, Amy E., Biedenweg, K., Lucas, C., Virapongse, A., Radachowsky, J., Wojcik, D.J., Londres, M., Bartels, W.L., Alvira, D., Kainer, K.A.

“…Examples of these strategies included disseminating preliminary research results to southern African villages, building research skills of Brazilian undergraduate students through semester-long internships, and jointly developing and implementing a forest ecology research and training program with one community in the Amazon estuary. Students chose strategies based on stakeholders' interests, research goals, and a realistic evaluation of student capacity and skill set. …”
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Potential of silvopastoral systems in the rain forests by Toledo, José M., Torres, F

“…Given the high cattle population and high levels of demand for beef and milk in tropical America, ranching for cattle production in the humid tropics has been expanding in the Brazilian Amazon and in Central America. Also small farmers after clearing the forest for crop production move into mixed farming systems incorporating cattle as a way of saving and income generation. …”
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How Brazil's sustainable cattle schemes could beef up to conserve forests and sustainable rural livelihoods by Maguire-Rajpaul, Victoria Alice, Galuchi, Tharic, Nery Alves Pinto, Helena, McDermott, Constance

“…Drawing on key informant interviews, this paper assesses the effectiveness of Brazil’s sustainable cattle schemes, with a particular focus on avoided deforestation in the Amazon biome; climate change mitigation; and improving the livelihoods of smallholder ranchers. …”
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Leakage effects in natural resource supply chains: a case study from the Peruvian commercial charcoal market by Bennett-Curry, A., Malhi, Y, Menton, M.

“…</i>) were found to have caused a leakage effect in which the species <i>shihuahuaco</i> (<i>Dipteryx</i> spp.) from the Amazon region of Ucayali is compensating for the reduced production of <i>algarrobo</i> charcoal. …”
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Revisiting the 'cornerstone of Amazonian conservation': a socioecological assessment of Brazil nut exploitation by Guariguata, Manuel R., Cronkleton, P., Duchelle, Amy E., Zuidema, Pieter A.

“…The Brazil nut (the seeds of the rainforest tree Bertholletia excelsa) is the only globally traded seed collected from the wild by forest-based harvesters across the Amazon basin. The large geographic scale of Brazil nut exploitation and the significant contributions to local livelihoods, national economies, and forest-based development over the last decades, merit a review of the "conservation-through-use" paradigm. …”
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Situación del manejo forestal sostenible en la Amazonia boliviana1 by Camacho, Olvis, Guzmán, Rudy, Peña Claros, Marielos

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Turrialba; Vol. 35, no. 4

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Atmospheric CH4 and CO2 enhancements and biomass burning emission ratios derived from satellite observations of the 2015 Indonesian fire plumes by Parker, R.J., Boesch, H., Wooster, M.J., Moore, D.P., Webb, A.J., Gaveau, D.L.A., Murdiyarso, Daniel

“…This is higher than that found over both the Amazon (5.1 ppb/ppm) and southern Africa (4.4 ppb/ppm), consistent with the Indonesian fires being characterised by an increased amount of smouldering combustion due to the large amount of organic soil (peat) burning involved. …”
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Composición floristica post-quema en áreas degradadas por la agricultura en la Región Ucayali, Amazonia peruana by Clavo Peralta, Zoyla Mirella, Roncal García, Sandra María, Ricse Tembladera, Auberto, Sabogal, César

“….--- [EN] The Ucayali Region, in the central part of the Peruvian Amazon, is one of the most affected by deforestation and degradation processes mainly caused by agricultura! …”
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Operational SWAT+ model: advancing seasonal forecasting in the Limpopo River Basin by Chambel-Leitão, P., Santos, F., Barreiros, D., Santos, H., Silva, Paulo, Madushanka, Thilina, Matheswaran, Karthikeyan, Muthuwatta, Lal P., Vickneswaran, Keerththanan, Retief, H., Dickens, Chris, Garcia Andarcia, Mariangel

“…Future directions focus on improving model calibration, incorporating additional weather variables, better representation of large reservoirs and irrigated areas, applying database optimization procedures, and transitioning to a Docker-based deployment on Amazon Web Services (AWS) for improved scalability and reliability. …”
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Bioactive Compounds of Camu-Camu (Myrciaria dubia (Kunth) McVaugh) by Castro Gómez, Juan Carlos, Maddox, J. Dylan, Cobos Ruiz, Marianela, Paredes, Jae D., Marapara del Aguila, Jorge Luis, Braga, Janeth, Imán Correa, Sixto Alfredo, Rodríguez, Hicler N., Castro, Carlos G.

“…Camu-camu is a shrub, native to the Amazon that thrives in areas where flooding is frequent. …”
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Clonal Propagation of Coffea arabica with Indole Butyric Acid and Acclimatization Conditions in Amazonas, Peru by Chichipe Oyarce, Jardy, Camacho Villalobos, Alina Alexandra, Bobadilla Rivera, Leidy, Vigo Mestanza, Carmen Natividad, Vásquez Pérez, Héctor Vladimir, Silva Valqui, Gelver

“…The objective of the experiment was to identify the best dose of indole butyric acid (IBA) hormone for the rooting of coffee cuttings of the typical variety through clonal propagation in the Amazon region. The experiment was carried out in two stages. …”
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Synonymy of Ixodes aragaoi with Ixodes fuscipes, and reinstatement of Ixodes spinosus (Acari: Ixodidae) by Labruna, Marcelo B., Onofrio, Valeria C., Barros Battesti, Darci M., Gianizella, Sergio L., Venzal, José Manuel, Guglielmone, Alberto

“…Some of the specimens previously reported as I. fuscipes are now confirmed as I. spinosus, with records in two Brazilian biomes, Amazon and Atlantic rainforest. We present lists of the ticks examined in this study, with their current taxonomic status.…”
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The challenge of reconciling conservation and development in the tropics: Lessons from Brazil’s oil palm governance model by Brandão, F., Schoneveld, George C., Pacheco, P., Vieira, I., Piraux, M., Mota, D.

“…We do so by looking into the Brazilian case, where the government intended to drive oil palm expansion in the Amazon through a program launched in 2010 that simultaneously only allowed expansion into already deforested areas and offered companies incentives to engage smallholder farmers in their supply chains. …”
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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

“…We address this knowledge gap, adopting a perception-based impact evaluation within communities across four intervention types representing the land sparing, sharing gradient: intensified industrial soy production (n = 60 HHs), a protected area (n = 70), an extractive reserve (n = 70) and a national forest (n = 70) in Pará in the Brazilian Amazon. We collected data using the Global Person Generated Index (GPGI) with household heads (n = 270) in eight communities (two per intervention type). …”
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The role of ecosystem transpiration in creating alternate moisture regimes by influencing atmospheric moisture convergence by Makarieva, A.M., Nefiodov, A.V., Nobre, A.D., Baudena, M., Bardi, U., Sheil, D., Saleska, S.R., Molina, R.D., Rammig, A.

“…Recently, changes in plant transpiration across the Amazon basin were shown to be associated disproportionately with changes in rainfall, suggesting that even small declines in transpiration (e.g., from deforestation) would lead to much larger declines in rainfall. …”
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Multidimensional forests: Complexity of forest-based values and livelihoods across Amazonian socio-cultural and geopolitical contexts by Londres, M., Schmink, M., Börner, J., Duchelle, Amy E., Frey, G.P.

“…We look at four local contexts in the Brazilian, Bolivian and Ecuadorian Amazon, which differ markedly in terms of their biophysical, sociocultural and geopolitical settings. …”
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