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Nature.com: Deforestation is carving up the Amazon

By Stefano Wrobleski 27 de May de 201414 de September de 2020

A rash of road construction is causing widespread change in the world’s largest tropical forest — with potentially global consequences.

R7: Researchers track isolated tribes in the Amazon with Google Earth

By Giovanny Vera 9 de May de 201414 de September de 2020

Researchers analyzed satellite imagery of a certain Amazon village located on the border between Brazil and Peru. The team calculated that the population is less than 40 inhabitants.

Phys.org: Amazon rainforest survey could improve carbon offset schemes

By Stefano Wrobleski 28 de April de 201414 de September de 2020

Researchers from the Universities of Leeds and Edinburgh studying the Amazon Basin have revealed unprecedented detail of the size, age and species of trees across the region by comparing satellite maps with hundreds of field plots.

Scientists study what keeps freshwater fish abundant in the Amazon

By Stefano Wrobleski 24 de April de 201414 de September de 2020

To quantify the effect of deforestation on fish, Kirk Winemiller is working with a team of Texas A&M and Brazilian researchers. Once completed, the project will inform the work of government agencies and conservation groups in Brazil.

Penn State: Drought and fire lead to sharp increases in forest tree mortality

By Stefano Wrobleski 17 de April de 201414 de September de 2020

Over the course of our experiment, 60 percent of the trees died with combined drought and repeated fire.

Amazonia Blog: For Nobel Winner, floods in North and drought in Southeast are related

By Stefano Wrobleski 6 de April de 201414 de September de 2020

Philip Fearnside, scientist specialized in climatology and based in Manaus, has warned for decades about the growing risk of climate catastrophes.

Phys: Extreme events helps scientists to study Amazon climate change

By Stefano Wrobleski 6 de April de 201414 de September de 2020

Extreme weather events are giving scientists an opportunity to make observations that will allow them to predict the impacts of climate change and deforestation on Amazon River wetlands.

Brief tree lives are linked to the Amazon biodiversity

By Stefano Wrobleski 3 de April de 201414 de September de 2020

According to a new study headed by Tim Baker and published in the journal Ecology Letters, short durations between tree generations strongly correlate to highly biodiverse clades.

Amazon trees super-diverse in chemicals substances

By Stefano Wrobleski 10 de March de 201414 de September de 2020

Climbing into the canopy of thousands of trees across 19 different forests in the region, researchers sampled chemical signatures from canopy leaves and were surprised by the levels of diversity uncovered.

Drought and fire are reducing ability of Amazon Rainforest to store carbon

By Stefano Wrobleski 7 de February de 201414 de September de 2020

New research published in Nature adds further evidence to the argument that drought and fire are reducing the Amazon’s ability to store carbon, raising concerns that Earth’s largest rainforest could tip from a carbon sink to a carbon source.

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