Integrative use of DNA barcode and morphology reveal high level of diversity in the ornamental fish on the lower Amazon basin by Elciane Araújo de Freitas, Dayana Batista dos Santos, Charles Samuel Moraes Ferreira, Cárlison Silva-Oliveira, Grazielle Fernanda Evangelista-Gomes, Ivana Barbosa Veneza

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Integrative use of DNA barcode and morphology reveal high level of diversity in the ornamental fish on the lower Amazon basin. by Elciane Araújo de Freitas, Dayana Batista Dos Santos, Charles Samuel Moraes Ferreira, Cárlison Silva-Oliveira, Grazielle Fernanda Evangelista-Gomes, Ivana Barbosa Veneza

“…The Amazon basin is the world's largest hydrographic basin, in terms of both its total area and its species diversity, with more than 2,700 species of fish. …”
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Insights into mapping tropical primary wet forests in the Amazon Basin from satellite-based time series metrics of canopy stability by Brendan Mackey, Sonia Hugh, Tatiana Shestakova, Brendan M. Rogers, Ludmila Rattis

“…Analyses were focused on the Brazilian Amazon but extended to the entire Amazon Basin. The findings revealed a high level of agreement between the Canopy Stability Index and forest categories classified by MapBiomas. …”
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Indiens ou paysans, peuples de la forêt ou de la montagne ? : vieux débats, nouvelles perspectives by Christian Gros

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Desenvolvimento Sustentável e Sistemas Agroflorestais na Amazônia matogrossense by Nara Lina Oliveira, Clara Jacq, Maurício Dolci, Florian Delahaye

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Avant le A d’Amazonie by Stéphen Rostain

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Producing a popular image of the Amazon rainforest and indigenous peoples in picturebooks in English-speaking societies by Aleksandra Wierucka

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Diversité des itinéraires migratoires des colons d’un front pionnier amazonien by Xavier Arnauld de Sartre, Pascal Sebille

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Fazer Territó-rios na Amazônia by Martine Droulers

“…"Territoriver" refers to a territorial construction resulting from the adjustments and interrelations formed by the successive historical and economic periods which have placed the river systems at the center of territorial organizations increasingly meshed.The Amazon basin provides emblematic examples of "Territorivers" derived from the progressive control of rivers since the phases of their exploration, their occupation and finally their regional integration in a highly transformed Amazon…”
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L’Amazonie péruvienne contemporaine au miroir de sa littérature : « Sélection Loreto 2006 » by Catherine Heymann

“…In 2006, at the end of a contest, Loreto’s Regional Government (Peru), published a selection of contemporary authors, who where born or lived in the Amazon basin. Integrated into a strategy of regional development, this cultural politics aimed to bring national and worldwide fame to the Amazonian writers, especially to those from the Loreto Department. …”
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Développement, crises et adaptation des territoires du soja au Mato Grosso: l'exemple de Sorriso by Damien Arvor, Vincent Dubreuil, Patricio Mendez del Villar, Carlos Magri Ferreira, Margareth Simões Penello Meirelles

“…After the pioneer phase that occurred during the 1970’s and 1980’s, the expansion of mechanized agriculture (especially soybean crops) in the Southern part of the Brazilian Amazon basin led to the emergence of new territories integrated in " the world economy". …”
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Observing and Modeling the Vertical Wind Profile at Multiple Sites in and above the Amazon Rain Forest Canopy by Raoni Aquino Silva de Santana, Cléo Quaresma Dias-Júnior, Roseilson Souza do Vale, Júlio Tóta, David Roy Fitzjarrald

“…We analyzed the vertical wind profile measured at six experimental tower sites in dense forest in the Amazon Basin and examined how well two simple models can reproduce these observations. …”
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Dynamique des savoirs et des échanges d’un produit de collecte en territoire transfrontalier by Laval Pauline

“….), also called wassaï or pinot in French Guyana, is native from the Amazon Basin in South America. From its fruits, indigenous people are used to prepare a thick juice, which is a staple food during the period of fruiting of the palm tree. …”
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A variant W chromosome in Centromochlus heckelii (Siluriformes, Auchenipteridae) and the role of repeated DNA in its heteromorphism by Chrystian Aparecido Grillo Haerter, Patrik Ferreira Viana, Fábio Hiroshi Takagui, Sandro Tonello, Vladimir Pavan Margarido, Daniel Rodrigues Blanco, Josiane Baccarin Traldi, Roberto Laridondo Lui, Eliana Feldberg

“…This study presents a population of C. heckelii from the Central Amazon basin with subtle variations in the karyotype composition and a variant W chromosome with distinct morphology and increased C-positive heterochromatin content. …”
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A Step towards Integrating CMORPH Precipitation Estimation with Rain Gauge Measurements by Augusto José Pereira Filho, Felipe Vemado, Guilherme Vemado, Fábio Augusto Gomes Vieira Reis, Lucilia do Carmo Giordano, Rodrigo Irineu Cerri, Cláudia Cristina dos Santos, Eymar Silva Sampaio Lopes, Marcelo Fischer Gramani, Agostinho Tadashi Ogura, José Eduardo Zaine, Leandro Eugenio da Silva Cerri, Oswaldo Augusto Filho, Fernando Mazzo D’Affonseca, Cláudio dos Santos Amaral

“…Frequencies greater than 3% were identified downwind of the Peruvian Andes, the Bolivian Amazon Basin, and the La Plata Basin, as well as along the Brazilian coast, where landslides are recurrently triggered by precipitation.…”
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Balancing selection at a wing pattern locus is associated with major shifts in genome-wide patterns of diversity and gene flow by Rodríguez de Cara, María Ángeles, Jay, Paul, Rougemont, Quentin, Chouteau, Mathieu, Whibley, Annabel, Huber, Barbara, Piron-Prunier, Florence, Ramos, Renato Rogner, Freitas, André V. L., Salazar, Camilo, Silva-Brandão, Karina Lucas, Torres, Tatiana Teixeira, Joron, Mathieu

“…They show the highest genetic diversity and effective population size estimates in the entire clade, as well as a low level of geographic structure and isolation by distance across the entire Amazon basin. By contrast, monomorphic populations of H. numata as well as its sister species and their ancestral lineages all show lower effective population sizes and genetic diversity, and higher levels of geographical structure across the continent. …”
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Spotted fever group rickettsiae in black rats, pets, and humans in Zungarococha community, A rural area in the surroundings of Iquitos, Peru by Cusi Ferradas, Guillermo Salvatierra, David Payahuanca, Winnie Contreras, Andrés M. López-Pérez, Therangika A. Hangawatte, Diana León, Bruno M. Ghersi, Ricardo Gamboa, Katia Manzanares Villanueva, Viviana Pinedo-Cancino, Risa Pesapane, Gabriela Salmón-Mulanovich, Andrés G. Lescano, Janet Foley

“…There are scarce data on rickettsial ecology in rural areas of the Peruvian Amazon basin, where seroprevalence has not been determined, and the identities of animals acting as reservoirs of these bacteria are not known. …”
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Diversity of potamodromous fishes in the Tocantins-Araguaia basin by Thiago Nascimento da Silva Campos, Hasley Rodrigo Pereira, Phâmela Bernardes Perônico, Carine Cavalcante Chamon, Philip Teles Soares, Fernando Mayer Pelicice

“…The migratory status of each species was assigned based on the most recent literature on fish diversity in the Tocantins-Araguaia and Amazon basins. The study consolidated a list of 77 potamodromous fish species (three orders, 12 families and 41 genera), including eight endemic, three threatened and two non-native species. …”
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