The Amazon River is named after the indigenous tribe of the Amazonas, who lived in the region where the river is located. The word “Amazon” is said to come from the indigenous word “amassona” or “amassan” which means “warrior” or “without breast” in reference to the legend of...
South America is home to the highest freshwater fish biodiversity on Earth1,2, and the hotspot of species richness is located in the western Amazon basin (Fig. 1)3,4. The location of this hotspot is enigmatic, as it is inconsistent with the pattern observed in river systems across the wor...
Roberts GC, Andreae MO, Zhou J, Artaxo P (2001) Cloud condensation nuclei in the Amazon Basin: “Marine” conditions over a continent? Geophys Res Lett 28(14):2807–2810Roberts GC et al (2001) Cloud condensation nuclei in the Amazon Basin: “marine” conditions over a continent? Geophys...
The dataset used to construct the phylogenetic tree included the mixed HBV infections. The branch lengths represent the sampling time of each genome. The lineages in which our ancient sequences are located are highlighted with different colors. The branches and names of the ancient sequences are a...
which is associated with convective precipitation from humid air advection from the Amazon basin during the austral summer north of the Tropic of Capricorn, while the area south of the Tropic of Capricorn became more important for the influence of frontal rains that reach the continent from the so...
4a), which is as well located in the lower Changjiang reaches but upstream of Nantong. The seasonal variation of δ18O in Poyang Lake is always higher, but relatively stable than that of Nantong within the year, while the seasonal δ18O variability in Chongqing, which is located in the ...
2.1.2. Amazon River delta ODP Site 925 (4°12.248′N, 43°29.349′W; water depth 3040 m) is located on the Ceará Rise, approximately 800 km northeast from the current mouth of the Amazon River (Fig. 1B). In modern and near-recent times, Site 925 receives a large amount of terrest...
This is particularly problematic becauseburgeoning genetic researchhas found that species once thought to encompass entire regions (like across the sprawling Amazon basin), are actually multiple, though similar, species. "This means that the starting amount of habitat and population size is initially lo...
Amazon basin. North African advections take place between December and April, which corresponds to the Amazonian wet season. Currently, dust advection from the Sahara to the Amazon basin takes place under two competing conditions: (1) a maximum dust load to the Amazon basin due to the large ...
In the Amazon basin, particles containing mixed sodium salts are routinely observed and are attributed to marine aerosols transported from the Atlantic Ocean. Using chemical imaging analysis, we show that, during the wet season, fungal spores emitted by