Resultados de búsqueda - Amazon River
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Development and application of microsatellite markers for genetic diversity assessment and construction of a core collection of Myrciaria dubia (Kunth) Mcvaugh germplasm from the p...
Publicado 2024“…Bayesian clustering detected ten genetic clusters, with several degrees of admixture among river basins, except for the genetically homogeneous Putumayo River basin. …”
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Social and Biological Correlates of Wild Meat Consumption and Trade by Rural Communities in the Jutaí River Basin, Central Amazonia
Publicado 2020“…Wild animals are an important source of food and income throughout the Amazon basin, particularly for forest-dependent communities living in the more remote regions. …”
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Development and phenotypic characterization of a native Theobroma cacao L. germplasm bank from the Loreto region of the Peruvian Amazon: Implications for ex situ conservation and g...
Publicado 2025“…This study aimed to establish and characterize a novel germplasm bank from the Loreto region of the Peruvian Amazon, a key center of cacao diversity. Methods: We collected 140 native cacao accessions across 15 river basins in eight provinces of the Loreto region. …”
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The Socio-Ecological Dynamics of Food Insecurity among Subsistence-Oriented Indigenous Communities in Amazonia: a Qualitative Examination of Coping Strategies among Riverine Commun...
Publicado 2019“…Despite the Amazon’s natural wealth, food insecurity is a major concern among indigenous communities. …”
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Fish biodiversity research in the Mekong Basin
Publicado 2012“…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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Breaking down silos: Conservation areas for Amazonian flagship terrestrial and freshwater species
Publicado 2025“…We found that 17% of the Amazon River Basin is covered by areas of high jaguar density and freshwater migratory species richness, 83% of which are found in Brazil and Peru. …”
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Swidden-fallow agroforestry in Amazonian: diversity at close distance
Publicado 1996“…Swidden-fallow agroforestry among ribereño farmers in the Peruvian Amazon has been reported to show important regional variation. …”
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Adopcion temprana de Arachis pintoi en el tropico humedo: el caso de los sistemas ganaderos de doble proposito en el Caqueta, Colombia. (Early adoption of Arachis pintoi in the hum...
Publicado 1999“…The Caqueta region of Colombia is representative of the environmental and economic conditions prevailing in most of Colombia's Amazon region. The department of Caqueta, located in the Amazon River basin, occupies an area of 8.9 million hectares, most of it under jungle. …”
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Two centuries of hydroclimatic variability reconstructed from tree-ring records over the Amazonian Andes of Peru
Publicado 2023“…Almost half of the tributaries of the Amazon River originate in the tropical Andes and support large populations in mountain regions and downstream areas. …”
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How forests attract rain: an examination of a new hypothesis
Publicado 2009“…Under this hypothesis, high rainfall occurs in continental interiors such as the Amazon and Congo river basins only because of near-continuous forest cover from interior to coast. …”
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Genetic diversity and spatial structure in a new distinct Theobroma cacao L. population in Bolivia
Publicado 2015“…Cacao (Theobroma cacao L.) is an important economic crop in the Bolivian Amazon. Bolivian farmers both cultivate cacao, and extract fruits from wild stands in the Beni River region and in valleys of the Andes foothills. …”
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Drivers of rural exodus from Amazonian headwaters
Publicado 2010“…Specifically, we examine the relative importance of public service provision and natural resources in determining settlement patterns along, and rural–urban migration from, eight rivers in road-less regions of the Brazilian Amazon. …”
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Rural–urban migration brings conservation threats and opportunities to Amazonian watersheds
Publicado 2010“…We investigated human settlement and population change in the Brazilian Amazon, combining government census data with field surveys along rivers. …”
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Suitability of wild decapods from an alluvial valley in South America for human nutrition as derived by amino acid composition
Publicado 2025“…When comparing decapod AA profiles with those from marine and freshwater crustacean and fishes used as food (giant river prawn, amazon river prawn, longarm river prawn, southern king crab, green tiger shrimp, speckled shrimp, tuna, sardine, hake, carp, trout, jundía catfish), the values of Leucine and Lysine in the decapods were found to be higher or equal. …”
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Variability of precipitation recycling and moisture sources over the Colombian Pacific Region: A precipitationshed approach
Publicado 2022“…An intensified Caribbean Low-Level Jet inhibits moisture sources from the north between June and August, strengthening a southerly cross-equatorial flow from the Amazon River basin and the southeastern tropical Pacific. …”
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Advances in Amazonian Peatland Discrimination With Multi-Temporal PALSAR Refines Estimates of Peatland Distribution, C Stocks and Deforestation
Publicado 2021“…The Pastaza Marañón Foreland Basin (PMFB), within the Peruvian Amazon, is known to store large amounts of peat, but the remoteness of the region makes field data collection and mapping the distribution of peatland ecotypes challenging. …”
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Kompostering av köksavfall och användning av kompost i köksträdgård i Chazuta, Peru
Publicado 2008“…The main aim with my thesis is to show that composting is a suitable method to treat organic waste and that the method is able to solve problems related to the handling of human waste in Chazuta, a jungle village sited close to a tributary river of the Amazon River. The thesis includes one literature study but focus is put on a practical investigation study. …”
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Poverty, tenure security, and landscape governance: Exploring inextricable interdependencies for science, policy, and action
Publicado 2021“…Four of the world’s 10 largest lakes and 7 of the 10 rivers with the largest catchment areas — including the Amazon, Parana, Nile, Congo, and Niger rivers — are in the global South. …”
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Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii and Neospora spp. in equids from three municipalities in Pará, Brazil
Publicado 2014“…This study presents a survey of the seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii and Neospora spp. in equids in three municipalities in Pará, a Brazilian state with the Amazonian rainforest and the Amazon River as dominating features. Toxoplasma gondii and Neospora spp. are two closely related parasitic protozoans not separated as different genera until 1988. …”
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