Brazil-China Cooperation for Sustainable Development
IPAM produces research on the relationship between Brazil and China across climate, trade, and environmental conservation agendas - from protecting the Cerrado and the Amazon to opportunities for sustainable cooperation between the two countries. Explore two IPAM...
The Effect of Logging on the Ground-Foraging Ant Community in Eastern Amazonia
In order to determine the suitability of ants as indicator organisms for habitat disruption in tropical forests, we studied the effects of both high and low impact logging on ant communities in northeastern Pará State, in the Brazilian Amazon. We collected ants...
Simulando o efeito do El Niño na Floresta Amazônica: o experimento “Seca Floresta”
Documento de Divulgação do Projeto “Seca-Floresta”, que propõe avaliar, por meio de uma abordagem experimental, a resposta da vegetação florestal a uma seca produzida artificialmente. Os principais resultados conseguidos até o momento estão relatados neste documento.
Simulando o efeito do El Niño na Floresta Amazônica: o experimento "Seca Floresta"
Documento de Divulgação do Projeto “Seca-Floresta”, que propõe avaliar, por meio de uma abordagem experimental, a resposta da vegetação florestal a uma seca produzida artificialmente. Os principais resultados conseguidos até o momento estão relatados neste documento.
Sensitive development could protect Amazonia instead of destroying it
After 40 years of government induced settlement of the Brazilian Amazon, the core of this region has experienced surprisingly little deforestation. The agriculture and ranching that cause deforestation depend upon reliable roads, which are concentrated along the...
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...
Smallholder agriculture along the lower Amazon floodplain, Brazil
This paper describes smallholder agricultural systems in the lower Amazon where the Santarém sub-Cluster is based. Here, despite the fertility of floodplain soils and a long tradition of floodplain farming, smallholder agriculture is stagnating. Once the basis of...