The Amazon rainforest (in Portuguese, Floresta Amazônica or Amazônia; Spanish: Selva Amazónica or Amazonia), also known as Amazonia or Amazon jungle, is a moist broadleaf forest that covers most of the Amazon Basin of South America. This basin encompasses seven million square kilometers (1...
Starting from an exploratory perspective that promoted the idea that progress would be achieved through the manipulation and cultivation of nature, in line with the thoughts idealized by Count Buffon a century earlier [170], Baron de Santa-Anna Nery portrays the Amazon rainforest as "the land of...
The Amazon forest is one of the most diverse ecosystems in the world and the largest remaining connected tropical rainforest1. Historically, the Amazon basin has served as a large carbon sink, but deforestation and forest degradation have made parts of the region a carbon source2,3,4,5,6,7...
designs known as geoglyphs, have been found in several other Amazon locales. In 2018, scientists using satellite images reported that large areas of Amazon forest in Brazil’s Mato Grosso state, once thought to have been sparsely inhabited at best, were dotted with villages and oddly shape...
In the Amazon rainforest, biodiversity is a significant resource for traditional communities, as it can be used as a relevant source of protein and it has a promising zootherapeutic potential. Studies on knowledge and ways how local peoples use the fauna are still incipient. This paper presents...
However, this region has the lowest population density due to the Amazon rainforest, which hinders human habitation. Nevertheless, this region has the largest proportion of young people (0–19 years of age), who account for 40% of the total population [6]. The children living in this ...
Since 1978 about one million square kilometers of Amazon rainforest have been destroyed across Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Bolivia, Venezuela, Suriname, Guyana, and French Guiana. Why is Earth's largest rainforest being destroyed?For most of human history, deforestation in the Amazon was primarily ...
Atmospheric aerosol particles are essential for forming clouds and precipitation, thereby influencing Earth’s energy budget, water cycle and climate on regional and global scales. However, the origin of aerosol particles over the Amazon rainforest durin
Thus, the composition of life in the forest is altered as changes occur in vegetation that directly interferes with the population structure of the avifauna, be those changes natural or anthropic. This study was realized in fragments of the Amazon Rainforest, and the main objective was to ...
Small rural operators techno-economic analysis to bring mobile services to isolated communities: The case of Peru Amazon rainforestRural communicationsDigital divideMobile servicesict4dSRORMIOA large number of rural communities in developing countries do not have access to communications services, unlike ...