The Giant River Otter is endemic to the Amazon basin. Its body can reach up to around 5 feet in length (plus a 3-foot tail), and it has webbed hands and feet that are perfect for swimming and hunting in the Amazon River’s tributaries. It is often seen feasting of fish and other ...
The slightly higher mean levels of 1-OHP for men compared to women may be due to their higher exposure from dermal uptake via water and from higher consumption of bottom-dwelling fish. Mean urine levels of 1-OHP were lower than guidance level of 1.0 μmol/mol creatinine for occupational...
Those behind the hiring of the excavators used middle-men who operated on their behalf: the profiteers remained in the shadows. It was reported that some of the machinery and equipment belonged to local government; one of the local prefects, as well as the brother of a local mayor, were ...
In a similar study conducted in the south of the Napo province, in the Tena canton, on the banks of the Napo river, the following units were defined, being forest, urbanized areas, agricultural mosaic (coverage made up of associations between different types of crops), predominance of pastures...
3 Facultad de Ciencias de la Vida, Universidad Estatal Amazónica (UEA), Puyo 160101, Ecuador 4 Corporation for Sustainable Development, Conservation and Climate Change, Tena 150150, Ecuador 5 Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros en Topografía, Geodesia y Cartografía, Universidad Politécnica de Mad...
Chancay 1,2 and Edgar Fabian Espitia-Sarmiento 1,3,* 1 Facultad de Ciencias de la Tierra y Agua, Universidad Regional Amazónica Ikiam, Tena 150101, Ecuador 2 Cátedra UNESCO en Manejo de Aguas Dulces Tropicales, Universidad Regional Amazónica Ikiam, Tena 150101, Ecuador 3 Grupo de ...