Boletim do CIMC | Edição 3
O Comitê Indígena de Mudanças Climáticas (CIMC) tem a responsabilidade de acompanhar os debates nacionais e internacionais sobre o clima e divulga estudos realizados pelos povos indígenas sobre mudanças climáticas com o intuito de valorizar os conhecimentos...
Unexpected results of a pilot throughfall exclusion experiment on soil emissions of CO2, CH4, N2O, and NO in eastern Amazonia
The eastern Amazon Basin may become drier as a result of less regional recirculation of water in a largely deforested landscape and because of increased frequency and intensity of El Niño events induced by global warming. Drier conditions may affect several plant...
Issues in Amazonian Development
Discussion on previous article by Laurance et al in Science. Full letter
Impacto das políticas públicas sobre manejo comunitário de recursos naturais
Experimento de criação de um sistema formal de gestão participativa dos recursos naturais florestais e de várzea. O estudo demonstra que ocorreram grandes mudanças nas políticas e nas instituições de gestão de recursos naturais, aumentando de forma substancial o grau de participação dos usuários na gestão local.
Uptake of water by lateral roots of small trees in an Amazonian Tropical Forest
A pulse chase technique was used to determine depth and breath of plant water uptake in an Amazonian evergreen forest. Two 2×2 m2 plots were irrigated with deuterated water. The deuterium pulse, measured as δD values of soil and plant sap water, was followed in the...
Frontier Governance in Amazonia
Throughout human history, the world's great forest formations have yielded to logging, cattle ranching, and agricultural expansion after transportation corridors made them accessible to frontier settlers. The Brazilian Amazon could prove to be an exception to this...
Arguing Tropical Forest Conservation: People versus Parks
We all agree that nature reserves with minimal human influence are an important component of any conservation strategy in any country. Rather, the point of controversy is how best to achieve a much broader, more comprehensive conservation of nature in a region such...