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• Hunting in the rainforest and mayaro virus infection: An emerging alphavirus in Ecuador

  Authors:Ricardo Izurieta, Maurizio Macaluso, Douglas Watts, Robert Tesh, Bolivar Guerra, Ligia Cruz, et al.From:Journal of Global Infectious Diseases (Vol. 3, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  October-December 20115,021 words Report 1830LByline: Ricardo. Izurieta, Maurizio. Macaluso, Douglas. Watts, Robert. Tesh, Bolivar. Guerra, Ligia. Cruz, Sagar. Galwankar, Sten. Vermund Objectives: The objectives of this report were to document the potential...

• Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America: Forest contraction in north equatorial Southeast Asia during the Last Glacial Period

  Authors:C.M. Wurster, M.I. Bird, I.D. Bull, F. Creed, C. Bryant, J.A. Dungait, et al.From:Borneo Research Bulletin (Vol. 41)

  Annual 2010142 words Brief article, Repri... 1560LToday, insular Southeast Asia is important for both its remarkably rich biodiversity and globally significant roles in atmospheric and oceanic circulation. Despite the fundamental importance of environmental history for...

• ONE GREAT BIG HILL OF BEANS

  Authors:SUE BRANFORD and NICOLE FRERISFrom:The Ecologist (Vol. 30, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  May 20002,009 words Article SUE BRANFORD AND NICOLE FRERIS REPORT FROM BRAZIL ON THE LATEST THREAT TO THE AMAZON RAINFOREST -- SOYA CULTIVATION SOYA -- USED MAINLY to produce animal feed for the world's growing legion of industrial meat...

• ENVIRONMENT-BRAZIL: CAPITALIZING ON BIODIVERSITY

  Author:Mario OsavaFrom:Environment BulletinPeer-Reviewed

  Feb. 28, 2000804 words Brief article Recognition of the enormous economic value of biodiversity is leading Brazil to rethink development of its Amazon jungle region, which up to now has been based on activities that pillage the area's natural resources....

• Factors Affecting the Compliance and Sway Properties of Tree Branches Used by the Sumatran Orangutan (Pongo abelii)

  Authors:Adam van Casteren, William I. Sellers, Susannah K. S. Thorpe, Sam Coward, Robin H. Crompton, and A. Roland EnnosFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 8, Issue 7) Peer-Reviewed

  July 2, 20136,177 words Report 1610LAuthor(s): Adam van Casteren 1,*, William I. Sellers 1, Susannah K. S. Thorpe 2, Sam Coward 2, Robin H. Crompton 3, A. Roland Ennos 1 Introduction The locomotion of animals is often shaped by the environment they...

• Projected Distributions and Diversity of Flightless Ground Beetles within the Australian Wet Tropics and Their Environmental Correlates

  Authors:Kyran M. Staunton, Simon K. A. Robson, Chris J. Burwell, April E. Reside, and Stephen E. WilliamsFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 9, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Feb. 20, 20149,620 words Article 1540LAuthor(s): Kyran M. Staunton 1,*, Simon K. A. Robson 1, Chris J. Burwell 2,3, April E. Reside 1, Stephen E. Williams 1 Introduction Climate change is expected to negatively impact biodiversity due to increased...

• Botanical diversity at Savura, a lowland rain forest site along the PABITRA Gateway Transect, Viti Levu, Fiji (1)

  Authors:Gunnar Keppel, Jone Cawani Navuso, A. Naikatini, Nunia T. Thomas, Isaac A. Rounds, Tamara A. Osborne, et al.From:Pacific Science (Vol. 59, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 20055,865 words Article Abstract: Savura is one of the seven focal sites of the Pacific-Asia Biodiversity Transect (PABITRA) Gateway Transect in Fiji. The site is composed of tropical lowland rain forest located in southeastern Viti Levu and...

• Plant n-alkane production from litterfall altered the diversity and community structure of alkane degrading bacteria in litter layer in lowland subtropical rainforest in Taiwan

  Authors:Tung-Yi Huang, Bing-Mu Hsu, Wei-Chun Chao, and Cheng-Wei FanFrom:Biogeosciences (Vol. 15, Issue 6) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 28, 201842 words Brief article, Repor... Byline: Tung-Yi Huang, Bing-Mu Hsu, Wei-Chun Chao, Cheng-Wei Fan To access, purchase, authenticate, or subscribe to the full-text of this article, please visit this link:...

• Belowground effects of canopy gaps in a tropical wet forest

  Author:Rebecca OstertagFrom:Ecology (Vol. 79, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  June 19987,949 words Article Canopy gaps are a fairly well-studied phenomenon in tropical forests, but less well known are their belowground effects on patterns of root length and biomass and the consequences of such changes on regeneration and...

• 'First the forest': conservation, 'community' and 'participation' in south-west Cameroon

  Author:Barrie SharpeFrom:Africa (Vol. 68, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Winter 19989,957 words Article Western concern with `conserving' or `managing' the rain forests of Africa has led to the setting up of a number of conservation projects. In such projects the `participation' of the `community' in forest conservation...

• Receding Forest Edges and Vanishing Reserves

  Authors:Claude Gascon, G. Bruce Williamson, and Gustavo A. B. da FonsecaFrom:Science (Vol. 288, Issue 5470) Peer-Reviewed

  May 26, 20002,286 words Article Logging and road building carve up otherwise intact expanses of forest into small and isolated islands (forest fragmentation), creating a perimeter of abrupt forest edge where ecological changes take place (1). Edge...

• Carbon-offset conservation in the Choco

  Author:Autumn SpanneFrom:NACLA Report on the Americas (Vol. 45, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Fall 20122,833 words Article 1560LON A SWELTERING JUNE AFTERNOON, AFRO-Colombian community leader Aureliano Cordoba led a small expedition into the tropical rainforest of the Choco a region that extends hundreds of miles along Colombia's Pacific coast....

• Looking into the gap: land use and the tropical forests of Southern Thailand

  Author:Lisa KealhoferFrom:Asian Perspectives: The Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific (Vol. 42, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring 20038,776 words Article The pollen and phytolith analysis of a 20,000-year lake core from southern Thailand provides the first long-term environmental sequence for this region. The evidence suggests that groups continuously occupied southern...

• Light-Gap Disturbances, Recruitment Limitation, and Tree Diversity in a Neotropical Forest

  Authors:S. P. Hubbell, R. B. Foster, S. T. O'Brien, K. E. Harms, R. Condit, B. Wechsler, et al.From:Science (Vol. 283, Issue 5401) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 22, 19993,411 words Article Light gap disturbances have been postulated to play a major role in maintaining tree diversity in species-rich tropical forests. This hypothesis was tested in more than 1200 gaps in a tropical forest in Panama over a...

• Temperate rainforests near the South Pole during peak Cretaceous warmth.

  Authors:Johann P. Klages, Ulrich Salzmann, Torsten Bickert, Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand, Karsten Gohl, Gerhard Kuhn, et al.From:Nature (Vol. 580, Issue 7801) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 202012,292 words Report 1530LThe mid-Cretaceous period was one of the warmest intervals of the past 140 million years.sup.1-5, driven by atmospheric carbon dioxide levels of around 1,000 parts per million by volume.sup.6. In the near absence of...

• Review of the tribe Amorphopini (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae: Metrodorinae): Pygmy moss-lichen tetrigids from the Amazon rainforest.

  Authors:Oscar J. Cadena-Castañeda, Daniela Santos Martins Silva, Diego Matheus De Mello Mendes, Marcelo Ribeiro Pereira, Fernando Campos De Domenico, and Carlos Frankl SperberFrom:Journal of Orthoptera Research (Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 30, 20207,384 words Article 1220LAbstract The tribe Amorphopini Günther, 1939 is reviewed. It consists of two genera: Amorphopus Seville, 1838 and Eomorphopus Hankock, 1907 with three Neotropical species: Amorphopus notabilis Serville, 1838,...

• Changing climate threatens tropical rainforests too.

  Authors:Kwek Yan Chong, Chow Khoon Yeo, and Alex Thiam Koon YeeFrom:Nature (Vol. 465, Issue 7297) Peer-Reviewed

  May 2010328 words Brief article 1310LAuthor(s): Kwek Yan Chong 1, Chow Khoon Yeo 2, Alex Thiam Koon Yee 3 Author Affiliations: (1) Department of Biological Sciences, Plant Systematics Laboratory, National University of Singapore, Singapore (2)...

• No correlation of body size and high-frequency hearing sensitivity in neotropical phaneropterine katydids

  Authors:Heiner Romer, Alexander Lang, and Manfred HartbauerFrom:Journal of Orthoptera Research (Vol. 17, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  July 20082,741 words Report We investigated the relationship between body size (weight) and hearing sensitivity in response to a high-frequency, bat-like stimulus in a number of phaneropterine katydids on BCI, Panama. These phaneropterines are...

• Congo carbon plan kicks off: Democratic Republic of the Congo maps forest biomass to attract carbon credits

  Author:Jeff TollefsonFrom:Nature (Vol. 502, Issue 7470) Peer-Reviewed

  Oct. 10, 2013830 words Article 1380LAfter lifting off this week from the chaotic urban jungle of Kinshasa, scientists guided a twin-engine aircraft over the real jungle. With a small onboard laser, they began sweeping the vast rainforest of the Democratic...

• A Reassessment of Carbon Content in Tropical Trees

  Authors:Adam R. Martin and Sean C. ThomasFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 6, Issue 8) Peer-Reviewed

  Aug. 17, 20117,326 words Article 1640LAccurate knowledge of carbon (C) content in live wood is essential for quantifying tropical forest C stocks, yet generic assumptions (such as biomass consisting of 50% carbon on a weight/weight basis) remain widely used...