. As these percentages of Hg present as MeHg are comparable to other terrestrial sites around the globe (Supplementary Figure4), it appears that the high concentrations of MeHg are due to high total Hg inputs and high storage of total Hg in soil, rather than efficient net conversion of inor...
Full size table Savannas, which represent approximately 30% - the largest proportion - of the NF mask, experienced the largest losses (excluding ecotones; Table1). In the Amazon, these formations are more susceptible to clearing compared to dense forested areas27. Considering the combined area of...
Figure 1 Map of the study area. Full size image The region is also characterized by several myths, such as the “boto myth”, a cetacean species that inhabits the Amazon rivers. In this town, inhabitants tell that the aquatic animal usually charm girls and carry them to the bottom of ri...
Figure 1 Geographical location of sites of study, delimiting the region of the Brazilian Amazon. Full size image Micronucleus assay in exfoliated buccal cells The MN-assay was carried out on the buccal epithelial cells of 574 children between 6-16 years old (446 children directly exposed to burn...
Figure 1 Comparison of the susceptibility of WB-infected Anopheles from the Brazilian Amazon to Plasmodium vivax (Bars with asterisk indicates significant pair comparisons between the species, * = p <0.01, NS = not significant). Full size image ...
Full size image The Amazon River watershed encompasses almost seven million km2, carrying about 1/6 of all the water that flows to the oceans. Through this rainforest there are rivers, streams, canals, lakes, marshes, sandy beaches, floodplains [3,4]—and the forest people, as the river ...
Figure was created in the Mind the Graph platform http://www.mindthegraph.com under Creative Commons License CC community as “attribution share-alike4.0 licensing” https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Full size image Discussion Heterogeneities between animal species offer unparalleled ...
Figure 1 Number (count) of women who named each number of medicinal plants named overall (for all conditions). Full size image Women could name the most plants (an average of three) for the treatment of respiratory infections (gripe). This is not surprising given how common respiratory infect...
Full size image Figure4D shows the correlation between cytokine levels and several markers of the pathology of HIV infection, in which the IFN-ɣ level was correlated with viral load (r = 0.358;p = 0.045); however, it was not associated with CD4+T lymphocyte count (r= -0.153;...
Figure2indicates that land concentration is also severe in settlement projects with recent extensive cumulative deforestation. When we analyze the size of areas deforested in the 20 settlements with the largest cumulative deforestation for the 2013–2018 period, only 15.8% of this area was in patches...