Temporally enhanced RSEI and nighttime lights reveal long-term ecological changes and effective protection in China’s inaugural national parks by Chunhui Wen, Tengfei Long, Guojin He, Weili Jiao, Wei Jiang

“…Interestingly, a significant positive correlation between tRSEI and NTL changes was observed in Giant Panda and Hainan Tropical Rainforest NPs, suggesting that the increase in NTL did not negatively impact the ecological environment within these protected areas. …”
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Evaluation of the impact of the environment on the genetic improvement of the buffalo species by Rafael Emilio Rincón-Márquez, Néstor Simón Montiel-Urdaneta, José Raúl Pérez-González

“…Furthermore, on 9 May 2012, the herd was transferred to Finca Miraflores, located in a premontane rainforest zone (PRZ) in Mérida state. To evaluate the environmental effects, 574 records of total milk production (MP) of the Florida and Miraflores farms were analyzed by PROC GLM, using sums of squares type III (SSIII): EZ, breed: Murrah and Mediterranean, number of calvings of the animal (NC), lactation duration (LD), dry days (DD) and maternal milk production (MMP). …”
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Projections of future distribution for the Golden Parakeet (Guaruba guarouba) indicate increased extinction risk for an Amazonian flagship species by Kauê Felippe de Moraes, Marcela Guimarães Moreira Lima, Gabriela Ribeiro Gonçalves, Larissa Hasnah Queiroz dos Santos, Marcos Pérsio Dantas Santos

“…In this context, we estimated the potential distribution of Guaruba guarouba, a Psittacine species endemic to the Amazon rainforest, to assess the effects of climate change and deforestation in a current and future scenario, as well as evaluate the representativeness of this species in the current system of protected areas in the Amazon. …”
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Forest edge landscape context affects mosquito community composition and risk of pathogen emergence by Adam Hendy, Nelson Ferreira Fé, Igor Pedrosa, André Girão, Taly Nayandra Figueira dos Santos, Claudia Reis Mendonça, José Tenaçol Andes Júnior, Flamarion Prado Assunção, Edson Rodrigues Costa, Vincent Sluydts, Marcelo Gordo, Vera Margarete Scarpassa, Michaela Buenemann, Marcus Vinícius Guimarães de Lacerda, Maria Paula Gomes Mourão, Nikos Vasilakis, Kathryn A. Hanley

“…Here, we investigated how the landscape context of forest edges shapes mosquito community structure in an Amazon rainforest reserve near the city of Manaus, Brazil, using hand-nets to sample mosquitoes at three distinct forest edge types. …”
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Trichoderma virens XZ11-1 producing siderophores inhibits the infection of Fusarium oxysporum and promotes plant growth in banana plants by Haiyang Cui, Qifeng Cheng, Tao Jing, Yufeng Chen, Xiaojuan Li, Miaoyi Zhang, Dengfeng Qi, Junting Feng, Farinaz Vafadar, Yongzan Wei, Kai Li, Yankun Zhao, Dengbo Zhou, Jianghui Xie

“…Results Strain XZ11-1 isolated from tropical rainforest has the production ability of high siderophore. …”
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Analysis of the Rights and Obligations of Stakeholders in China’s National Park Concession System by Le ZHONG, Zhicong ZHAO

“…The research’s specific foci include the Three Rivers Source National Park, Giant Panda National Park, Northeast Tiger and Leopard National Park, Hainan Tropical Rainforest National Park and Wuyi Mountain National Park, as well as the pilot national parks including Qianjiangyuan, Shennongjia, Nanshan, Qilian Mountain and Pudacuo. …”
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Caribbean Consortium for Research in Environmental and Occupational Health (CCREOH) Cohort Study: influences of complex environmental exposures on maternal and child health in Suri... by Antoon W Grünberg, William Hawkins, Wilco Zijlmans, Jeffrey Wickliffe, Ashna Hindori-Mohangoo, Sigrid MacDonald-Ottevanger, Paul Ouboter, Gwendolyn Landburg, John Codrington, Jimmy Roosblad, Gaitree Baldewsingh, Radha Ramjatan, Anisma Gokoel, Firoz Abdoel Wahid, Lissa Fortes Soares, Cecilia Alcala, Esther Boedhoe, Arti Shankar, Emily Harville, S S Drury, Hannah Covert, Maureen Lichtveld

“…The study determines associations between levels of environmental elements and toxicants in pregnant women, and birth outcomes and neurodevelopment in their children.Participants Pregnant women (N=1143) were enrolled from December 2016 to July 2019 from three regions of Suriname: Paramaribo (N=738), Nickerie (N=204) and the tropical rainforest interior (N=201). Infants (N=992) were enrolled at birth. …”
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Strontium isoscape of sub-Saharan Africa allows tracing origins of victims of the transatlantic slave trade by Xueye Wang, Gaëlle Bocksberger, Mimi Arandjelovic, Anthony Agbor, Samuel Angedakin, Floris Aubert, Emmanuel Ayuk Ayimisin, Emma Bailey, Donatienne Barubiyo, Mattia Bessone, René Bobe, Matthieu Bonnet, Renée Boucher, Gregory Brazzola, Simon Brewer, Kevin C. Lee, Susana Carvalho, Rebecca Chancellor, Chloe Cipoletta, Heather Cohen, Sandi R. Copeland, Katherine Corogenes, Ana Maria Costa, Charlotte Coupland, Bryan Curran, Darryl J. de Ruiter, Tobias Deschner, Paula Dieguez, Karsten Dierks, Emmanuel Dilambaka, Dervla Dowd, Andrew Dunn, Villard Ebot Egbe, Manfred Finckh, Barbara Fruth, Liza Gijanto, Yisa Ginath Yuh, Annemarie Goedmakers, Cameron Gokee, Rui Gomes Coelho, Alan H. Goodman, Anne-Céline Granjon, Vaughan Grimes, Cyril C. Grueter, Anne Haour, Daniela Hedwig, Veerle Hermans, R. Adriana Hernandez-Aguilar, Gottfried Hohmann, Inaoyom Imong, Kathryn J. Jeffery, Sorrel Jones, Jessica Junker, Parag Kadam, Mbangi Kambere, Mohamed Kambi, Ivonne Kienast, Kelly J. Knudson, Kevin E. Langergraber, Vincent Lapeyre, Juan Lapuente, Bradley Larson, Thea Lautenschläger, Petrus le Roux, Vera Leinert, Manuel Llana, Amanda Logan, Brynn Lowry, Tina Lüdecke, Giovanna Maretti, Sergio Marrocoli, Rumen Fernandez, Patricia J. McNeill, Amelia C. Meier, Paulina Meller, J. Cameron Monroe, David Morgan, Felix Mulindahabi, Mizuki Murai, Emily Neil, Sonia Nicholl, Protais Niyigaba, Emmanuelle Normand, Lucy Jayne Ormsby, Orume Diotoh, Liliana Pacheco, Alex Piel, Jodie Preece, Sebastien Regnaut, Francois G. Richard, Michael P. Richards, Aaron Rundus, Crickette Sanz, Volker Sommer, Matt Sponheimer, Teresa E. Steele, Fiona A. Stewart, Nikki Tagg, Luc Roscelin Tédonzong, Alexander Tickle, Lassané Toubga, Joost van Schijndel, Virginie Vergnes, Nadege Wangue Njomen, Erin G. Wessling, Jacob Willie, Roman M. Wittig, Kyle Yurkiw, Andrew M. Zipkin, Klaus Zuberbühler, Hjalmar S. Kühl, Christophe Boesch, Vicky M. Oelze

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Large range sizes link fast life histories with high species richness across wet tropical tree floras by Timothy R. Baker, Stephen Adu-Bredu, Kofi Affum-Baffoe, Shin-ichiro Aiba, Perpetra Akite, Miguel Alexiades, Everton Almeida, Edmar Almeida de Oliveira, Esteban Alvarez Davila, Christian Amani, Ana Andrade, Luiz Aragao, Alejandro Araujo-Murakami, Eric Arets, Luzmila Arroyo, Peter Ashton, Suspense A. Averti Ifo, Gerardo A. C. Aymard, Michel Baisie, William Balee, Michael Balinga, Lindsay F. Banin, Olaf Banki, Christopher Baraloto, Jorcely Barroso, Jean-Francois Bastin, Hans Beeckman, Serge Begne, Natacha Nssi Bengone, Nicholas Berry, Wemo Betian, Vincent Bezard, Lilian Blanc, Pascal Boeckx, Damien Bonal, Frans Bongers, Francis Q. Brearley, Roel Brienen, Foster Brown, Musalmah Bt. Nasaradin, Benoit Burban, David F. R. P. Burslem, Plinio Camargo, Jose Luis Camargo, Wendeson Castro, Carlos Ceron, Victor Chama Moscoso, Colin Chapman, Jerome Chave, Eric Chezeaux, Murray Collins, James Comiskey, David Coomes, Fernando Cornejo Valverde, Flavia R. C. Costa, Aida Cuni-Sanchez, Lola da Costa, Douglas C. Daly, Martin Dančák, Armandu Daniels, Greta Dargie, Stuart Davies, Charles De Canniere, Thales de Haulleville, Jhon del Aguila Pasquel, Geraldine Derroire, Kyle G. Dexter, Anthony Di Fiore, Marie-Noel K. Djuikouo, Jean-Louis Doucet, Vincent Droissart, Gerald Eilu, Thaise Emillio, Julien Engel, Bocko Yannick Enock, Fidele Evouna Ondo, Corneille Ewango, Sophie Fauset, Ted R. Feldpausch, Muhammad Fitriadi, Gerardo Flores Llampazo, Ernest G. Foli, Gabriella Fredriksson, David R. Galbraith, Martin Gilpin, Emanuel Gloor, Christelle Gonmadje, Rene Guillen Villaroel, Jefferson Hall, Keith C. Hamer, Alan Hamilton, Olivier Hardy, Terese Hart, Radim Hédl, Rafael Herrera, Niro Higuchi, Claude Marcel Hladik, Eurídice Honorio Coronado, Isau Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, Walter Huaraca Huasco, Wannes Hubau, Muhammad Idhamsyah, Sascha A. Ismail, Kath Jeffery, Eliana Jimenez, Tommaso Jucker, Elizabeth Kearsley, Lip Khoon Kho, Timothy Killeen, Kanehiro Kitayama, William Laurance, Susan Laurance, Miguel Leal, Simon L. Lewis, Stanislav Lhota, Jeremy Lindsell, Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez, Jon Lovett, Richard Lowe, William E. Magnusson, Jean-Remy Makana, Yadvinder Malhi, Beatriz Marimon, Ben Hur Marimon Junior, Andrew Marshall, Colin Maycock, Faustin Mbayu, Casimiro Mendoza, Irina Mendoza Polo, Faizah Metali, Vianet Mihindou, Abel Monteagudo-Mendoza, Sam Moore, Patrick Mucunguzi, Jacques Mukinzi, Pantaleo Munishi, Laszlo Nagy, Petrus Naisso, David Neill, Adriano Nogueira Lima, Percy Nunez Vargas, Lucas Ojo, Walter Palacios, Nadir Pallqui Camacho, Alexander Parada Gutierrez, Julie Peacock, Kelvin S.-H. Peh, Antonio Pena Cruz, Colin Pendry, Toby Pennington, Maria Cristina Penuela-Mora, Pascal Petronelli, Oliver L. Phillips, Georgia Pickavance, G. John Pipoly, Nigel Pitman, Axel Dalberg Poulsen, Ghillean T. Prance, Adriana Prieto, Richard B. Primack, Lan Qie, Simon A. Queenborough, Terry Sunderland, Carlos Quesada, Freddy Ramirez Arevalo, Hirma Ramirez-Angulo, Jan Reitsma, Maxime Réjou-Méchain, Anand Roopsind, Francesco Rovero, Ervan Rutishauser, Kamariah Abu Salim, Rafael Salomao, Ismayadi Samsoedin, Muhd Shahruney Saparudin, Juliana Schietti, Ricardo A. Segovia, Julio Serrano, Rafizah Serudia, Douglas Sheil, Natalino Silva, Javier Silva Espejo, Marcos Silveira, Murielle Simo-Droissart, James Singh, Bonaventure Sonké, Thaise Emilio Lopes De Sousa, Juliana Stropp, Rahayu Sukri, Terry Sunderland, Martin Svátek, Michael Swaine, Hermann Taedoumg, Joey Talbot, Sylvester Tan, James Taplin, David Taylor, Hans ter Steege, John Terborgh, Armando Torres-Lezama, John Tshibamba Mukendi, Darlington Tuagben, Peter van de Meer, Geertje van der Heijden, Peter van der Hout, Mark van Nieuwstadt, Bert van Ulft, Rodolfo Vasquez Martinez, Ronald Vernimmen, Barbara Vinceti, Simone Vieira, Ima Celia Guimaries Vieira, Emilio Vilanova Torre, Jason Vleminckx, Lee White, Simon Willcock, Mathew Williams, John T. Woods, Tze Leong Yao, Ishak Yassir, Roderick Zagt, Lise Zemagho

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O complexo de soja no norte de Mato Grosso (Brasil):uma perspectiva político-ecológica by Martin Coy, Christoph Huber

“…In addition to introductory conceptual considerations, this article deals with one of the “major” political-ecological research topics: the destruction of the tropical rainforests and savannas. Based on empirical research in the north of Mato Grosso (Brazil) we examine the prevailing destructive human-nature relations. …”
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Panorama historique sur les plantes alimentaires à féculents en Afrique centrale by Serge Bahuchet

“…In Central African rainforests, tubers (yams, cassava, Araceae) are staple food, together with plantains. …”
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Thresholds for Rural Public and Ecosystem Services: Integration into Rural Green Space Spatial Planning for Sustainable Development by Huiya Yang, Jiahui Zou, Chongxiao Wang, Renzhi Wu, Maroof Ali, Zhongde Huang, Hongchao Jiang, Fan Zhang, Yang Bai

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Complex Dynamic Systems Theory in Second Language Acquisition: Exploring Concepts and Unpacking Constructs by Shan An, Ashley Beccia

“…Indeed, complexity science, or the study of the structure and behavior of complex dynamic systems, has become increasingly popular as researchers aim to understand the complexity that surrounds us – e.g., rainforests, immune systems, the global economy, and language (Sanders, 2003). …”
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The complete mitogenomes of all four Cryptospiza species (Aves: Estrildidae) by J. Dylan Maddox, Erica Zahnle, Kit McDonnell, Felix Grewe, Thomas P. Gnoske, John M. Bates, Shannon J. Hackett

“…Crimsonwings are estrildid finches found in the understory of montane rainforests of sub-Saharan Africa. The genus includes four species: Cryptospiza jacksoni Sharpe 1902, C. shelleyi Sharpe 1902, C. reichenovii (Hartlaub 1874), and C. salvadorii Reichenow 1892. …”
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Blue Morpho Butterfly Morpho peleides Kollar (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) by Haleigh A. Ray, Jacqueline Y. Miller

“…In the United States, it is often featured in museums and zoos that have butterfly houses or butterfly rainforests. This five-page fact sheet about the popular butterfly was written by Haleigh A. …”
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Le bois d’aloès, « le Bois des Dieux » by Gerard A. Persoon

“…Agarwood, also called eaglewood, is a very important non-timber forest product from the rainforests of Southeast Asia. The infected wood of the Aquilaria sp. is widely used to produce incense for religious ceremonies or for pleasure but it can also be used for making perfumes or medicinal wine.Due to its high price, the harvesting of agarwood from the wild has brought the plant to the point of extinction in many areas in Vietnam, Indonesia, Laos and Malaysia. …”
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Blue Morpho Butterfly Morpho peleides Kollar (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) by Haleigh A. Ray, Jacqueline Y. Miller

“…In the United States, it is often featured in museums and zoos that have butterfly houses or butterfly rainforests. This five-page fact sheet about the popular butterfly was written by Haleigh A. …”
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Homo erectus adapted to steppe-desert climate extremes one million years ago by Julio Mercader, Pamela Akuku, Nicole Boivin, Alfredo Camacho, Tristan Carter, Siobhán Clarke, Arturo Cueva Temprana, Julien Favreau, Jennifer Galloway, Raquel Hernando, Haiping Huang, Stephen Hubbard, Jed O. Kaplan, Steve Larter, Stephen Magohe, Abdallah Mohamed, Aloyce Mwambwiga, Ayoola Oladele, Michael Petraglia, Patrick Roberts, Palmira Saladié, Abel Shikoni, Renzo Silva, María Soto, Dominica Stricklin, Degsew Z. Mekonnen, Wenran Zhao, Paul Durkin

“…Abstract Questions about when early members of the genus Homo adapted to extreme environments like deserts and rainforests have traditionally focused on Homo sapiens. …”
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Biophysical effects of croplands on land surface temperature by Chi Chen, Yang Li, Xuhui Wang, Xiangzhong Luo, Yue Li, Yu Cheng, Zhe Zhu

“…However, a lower-than-expected LST disturbance is seen in hot and wet regions where croplands are surrounded by rainforests, attributed to lower cropland fraction and energy limitations. …”
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Climate change and the single cell by Derek T. A. Lamport

“…Stomata act as crucial regulatory components of a water hypercycle that contributes to the homeostasis of a warming planet by regulating evaporative cooling and reflective cloud cover generated by vast tropical rainforests of the South and the equally vast arboreal forests of the North. …”
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