Brazil could make a substantial contribution to climate change mitigation. Should the UNFCCC include a “reduction of emissions from deforestation and degradation” (REDD) mechanism in its post-2012 framework? About 75 per cent of Brazil’s CO2 emissions do not result from the burning of fossil fuels, as is the case in the industrializes countries and in countries such as China and India, but rather from land-use changes, specifically deforestation and fires in its tropical forests.
Hypogaeic and epigaeic ant (Hymenoptera : Formicidae) assemblages of atlantic costal rainforest and dry mature and secondary Amazon forest in Brazil : Continuums or communities
Hypogaeic and epigaeic ant (Hymenoptera : Formicidae) assemblages of atlantic costal rainforest and dry mature and secondary Amazon forest in Brazil : Continuums or communities
Meat, flour and sugar baits were used on the soil surface and buried to examine species composition of the ant fauna in three separate tropical forests in Brazil, and to control for the effect of the regional faunal pool. Compositional mosaic diversities were...