Combate aos Incêndios Florestais na Amazônia: Florestas Ombrófilas Densas
A publicação foi desenvolvida para apoiar brigadistas institucionais e voluntários no combate aos incêndios florestais em florestas ombrófilas densas da Amazônia, ecossistemas que, devido ao avanço das mudanças climáticas e ao aumento da frequência de secas...
Report of the REDD workshop in Accra
Relatório em inglês do workshop REDD em Accra. O evento ocorreu durante a Convenção-Quadro das Nações Unidas sobre Mudanças do Clima.
Modeling forest understory fires in an Eastern Amazonian landscape
Forest understory fires are an increasingly important cause of forest impoverishment in Amazonia, but little is known of the landscape characteristics and climatic phenomena that determine their occurrence. We developed empirical functions relating the occurrence...
Nitrogen and phosphorus limitation of biomass growth in a tropical secondary forest
Understanding secondary successional processes in Amazonian terrestrial ecosystems is becoming increasingly important as continued deforestation expands the area that has become secondary forest, or at least has been through a recent phase of secondary forest...
Nutrient loss and redistribution after forest clearing on a highly weathered soil in Amazonia
Over the past three decades, tropical forest clearing and burning have greatly altered the Amazonian landscape by increasing the cover of pastures and secondary forests. The alteration of biogeochemical processes on these lands is of particular interest on highly...
A selva como laboratório: Pesquisadores preparam queimada gigante para saber até que ponto a mata pode resistir
Matéria da revista Veja (online) divulga experimento realizado por cientistas de quatro insituições – Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia, Centro de Pesquisa Woods Hole Universidades de Yale e Stanfort, dos Estados Unidos.
Diet of a muriqui group (Brachyteles arachnoides) in continuous primary forest
The feeding behaviour of a group of free-ranging muriquis (Brachyteles arachnoides) was monitored in the 380 km2 Carlos Botelho State Park (PECB), between February 1992 and November 1993. Scan sample data indicated that 59.1% of feeding time was devoted to fruit,...