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1. The tropical rainforest
by Cheshire, Gerard, 1965 and Orr, Richard
2001, Nature unfolds, ISBN 9780778703082, 39
Swamp ecology | Rain forest ecology | Jungles | Rain forests | Environmental education | Jungle ecology
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2. Guardians of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest
: environmental organizations and development
by Barbosa, Luiz C
2015, ISBN 9781315739670, xxii, 226
The Amazon region is the focus of intense conflict between conservationists concerned with deforestation and advocates of agro-industrial development. This... 
Deforestation | Rain forest conservation | Societies, etc | Environmental policy | Political aspects | Environmental protection | Environmental Policy | Rural Development | Sustainable Development | Indigenous Peoples | Biodiversity | Political Ecology | Development Geography | Rural Studies | Environmental Geography | Environment & Resources | Globalization | Politics & Development | Environmental Politics | Latin American Politics | Ecology - Environment Studies | Environments | Environmental Change & Pollution | Forestry | Latin American & Hispanic Studies | Environment & the Developing World | Development Policy | Environmental Anthropology | Environmental Issues | Environmental Sociology | Biodiversity & Conservation | Conservation - Environment Studies | Environmental Management | Rain forest conservation - Political aspects - Amazon River Region
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3. Discovering the Amazon Rainforest
by Cruxton, J. Bradley
1998, Discovery series, ISBN 9780195413274, 64
"An introduction to life in the rainforest of Brazil, focusing on the people. Explores the tension between indigenous peoples and modern settlers committed to... 
Rain forests
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4. Full Text Isoprene photochemistry over the Amazon rainforest
by Yingjun Liu and Joel Brito and Matthew R. Dorris and Jean C. Rivera-Rios and Roger Seco and Kelvin H. Bates and Paulo Artaxo and Sergio Duvoisin and Frank N. Keutsch and Saewung Kim and Allen H. Goldstein and Alex B. Guenther and Antonio O. Manzi and Rodrigo A. F. Souza and Stephen R. Springston and Thomas B. Watson and Karena A. McKinney and Scot T. Martin and Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, ISSN 0027-8424, 5/2016, Volume 113, Issue 22, pp. 6125 - 6130
Isoprene photooxidation is a major driver of atmospheric chemistry over forested regions. Isoprene reacts with hydroxyl radicals (OH) and molecular oxygen to... 
Amazon | Isoprene photochemistry | Organic hydroperoxides | OXIDATION | ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY | organic hydroperoxides | WET SEASON | CANOPY | TROPICAL FOREST | MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES | isoprene photochemistry | BIOGENIC EMISSIONS | SURFACE | NITROGEN-OXIDE EMISSIONS | AEROSOL FORMATION | PHOTOOXIDATION | Acrolein - analysis | Acrolein - analogs & derivatives | Air Pollutants - analysis | Nitric Oxide - chemistry | Oxidation-Reduction | Humans | Peroxides - chemistry | Rainforest | Pentanes - chemistry | Hemiterpenes - radiation effects | Butadienes - radiation effects | Free Radicals - analysis | Atmosphere | Butadienes - chemistry | Butanones - analysis | Pentanes - radiation effects | Hemiterpenes - chemistry | Photochemistry | Sciences of the Universe | Ocean, Atmosphere | Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics | Physics | Environmental Sciences | Global Changes | ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES | Physical Sciences
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5. Amazonia, voices from the rainforest
: a resource & action guide
by Gennino, Angela and Aguirre, Monti and Borges, Beto and Amazonia Film Project and Rainforest Action Network
1990, 92
Societies, etc | Rain forests | Amazon River Region Environmental conditions
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6. Full Text Rainforest-initiated wet season onset over the southern Amazon
by Wright, Jonathon S and Fu, Rong and Worden, John R and Chakraborty, Sudip and Clinton, Nicholas E and Risi, Camille and Sun, Ying and Yin, Lei
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, ISSN 0027-8424, 08/2017, Volume 114, Issue 32, pp. 8481 - 8486
Although it is well established that transpiration contributes much of the water for rainfall over Amazonia, it remains unclear whether transpiration helps to... 
Rainfall | Monsoon onset | Amazon | Rainforest | Evapotranspiration | rainfall | INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY | AMERICA | CONVECTION | MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES | evapotranspiration | TERRESTRIAL | monsoon onset | PRECIPITATION | BASIN | rainforest | PHOTOSYNTHETIC SEASONALITY | STRAIGHT-LINE | WATER | CLIMATE | Amazon River region | Atmospheric circulation | Transpiration | Environmental aspects | Environment | Research | Plants | Rain forests | Physical Sciences
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7. Full Text Rainforest metropolis casts 1,000-km defaunation shadow
by Tregidgo, Daniel J and Barlow, Jos and Pompeu, Paulo S and Rocha, Mayana De Almeida and Parry, Luke
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, ISSN 0027-8424, 08/2017, Volume 114, Issue 32, pp. 8655 - 8659
Tropical rainforest regions are urbanizing rapidly, yet the role of emerging metropolises in driving wildlife overharvesting in forests and inland waters is... 
Urbanization | Fishing down | Ecological footprint | Freshwater biodiversity | Overfishing | ecological footprint | BIODIVERSITY | overfishing | MANAGEMENT | LOWER AMAZON | fishing down | MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES | SEED DISPERSAL | CORAL-REEFS | SUSTAINABILITY | freshwater biodiversity | urbanization | WILDERNESS | FISHERIES | FISH | CONSUMPTION | Fish populations | Environmental aspects | Influence | Forecasts and trends | Rain forests | Biological diversity | Biological Sciences
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8. Animism in rainforest and tundra
: personhood, animals, plants and things in contemporary Amazonia and Siberia
2012, ISBN 0857454684, cm.
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9. Full Text Widespread decline of Congo rainforest greenness in the past decade
by Zhou, Liming and Tian, Yuhong and Myneni, Ranga B and Ciais, Philippe and Saatchi, Sassan and Liu, Yi Y and Piao, Shilong and Chen, Haishan and Vermote, Eric F and Song, Conghe and Hwang, Taehee
Nature, ISSN 0028-0836, 2014, Volume 508, Issue 7498, pp. 86 - 90
Tropical forests are global epicentres of biodiversity and important modulators of climate change(1), and are mainly constrained by rainfall patterns(1-3). The... 
DRY SEASON | AMAZON | TROPICAL FORESTS | PRODUCTS | VEGETATION INDEXES | MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES | MICROWAVE EMISSION | DROUGHT | MODIS | CLIMATE | RETRIEVALS | Trees - metabolism | Temperature | Water - analysis | Water - metabolism | Acclimatization | Biomass | Chlorophyll - metabolism | Droughts - statistics & numerical data | Trees - growth & development | Wood - metabolism | Biodiversity | Congo | Rain | Plant Leaves - metabolism | Time Factors | Tropical Climate | Chlorophyll - analysis | Plant Leaves - growth & development | Satellite Imagery | Seasons | Photosynthesis | Wood - growth & development | Climate Change - statistics & numerical data | Deforestation | Global temperature changes | Forestry research | Forest dynamics | Congo (Kinshasa) | Research | Rain forests | Studies | Rainforests | Time series | Trends | Drought | Methods | Meteorology
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10. Full Text Conversion of the Amazon rainforest to agriculture results in biotic homogenization of soil bacterial communities
by Jorge L. M. Rodrigues and Vivian H. Pellizari and Rebecca Mueller and Kyunghwa Baek and Ederson da C. Jesus and Fabiana S. Paula and Babur Mirza and George S. Hamaoui and Siu Mui Tsai and Brigitte Feigl and James M. Tiedje and Brendan J. M. Bohannan and Klaus Nüsslein
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, ISSN 0027-8424, 1/2013, Volume 110, Issue 3, pp. 988 - 993
The Amazon rainforest is the Earth's largest reservoir of plant and animal diversity, and it has been subjected to especially high rates of land use change,... 
Taxa | Agricultural soils | Soil samples | Phylogenetics | Homogenization | Forest ecosystems | Pastures | Biodiversity | Tropical rain forests | Forest soils | Deforestation microorganisms | Distance decay | Spatial scale | Community similarity | PASTURE | BIODIVERSITY | SOUTHWESTERN BRAZILIAN AMAZON | MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES | community similarity | LAND | spatial scale | NITROGEN DYNAMICS | deforestation | distance decay | CONSERVATION | microorganisms | MICROBIAL DIVERSITY | BASIN | Trees | Soil Microbiology | Humans | Phylogeny | Bacteria - genetics | Bacteria - isolation & purification | Rain | Animals | Tropical Climate | Cattle | Ecosystem | Bacteria - classification | Brazil | Agriculture | Natural resources | Biological diversity conservation | Environmental aspects | Research | Reclamation of land | Rain forests | Soil microbiology | Biological Sciences
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11. Human carrying capacity of the Brazilian rainforest
by Fearnside, Philip M. (Philip Martin)
1986, ISBN 0231061048, xii, 293
Amazon River Region Population density | Rain forest ecology | Land capability for agriculture | Environmental policy | Rodovia Transamazônica (Brazil)
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12. The Brazilian Amazon rainforest
: global ecopolitics, development, and democracy
by Barbosa, Luiz C
2000, ISBN 9780761815211, vii, 196
Deforestation | Environmental aspects | Environmental policy | Sustainable development | Political aspects
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13. Rainforest cities
: urbanization, development, and globalization of the Brazilian Amazon
by Browder, John O and Godfrey, Brian J
1997, ISBN 0231106548, xxvi, 429
Regional planning | City planning | Amazon River Region Social conditions | Land use, Rural | Amazon River Region Economic conditions | Land settlement patterns
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14. Full Text Litter mercury deposition in the Amazonian rainforest
by Fostier, Anne Hélène and Melendez-Perez, José Javier and Richter, Larissa
Environmental Pollution, ISSN 0269-7491, 11/2015, Volume 206, pp. 605 - 610
The objective of this work was to assess the flux of atmospheric mercury transferred to the soil of the Amazonian rainforest by litterfall. Calculations were... 
Atmospheric deposition | Mercury | Amazon forest | Litterfall | NEGRO RIVER-BASIN | ATLANTIC FOREST | LEAF DEMOGRAPHY | SPATIAL-PATTERNS | METHYL MERCURY | ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES | WOOD PRODUCTION | TRACE-ELEMENTS | TROPICAL FORESTS | DRY DEPOSITION | SOIL | Plant Leaves - chemistry | Air Pollutants - analysis | Conservation of Natural Resources - methods | Environmental Monitoring | Mercury - analysis | French Guiana | Brazil | Soil - standards | Trees - growth & development | Rainforest | Soil Pollutants - analysis | Trees - chemistry | Deforestation | Environmental aspects | Rain forests | Litter | Mathematical analysis | Flux | Pollution abatement | Deposition | Mercury (metal)
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15. Full Text Effect of 7 yr of experimental drought on vegetation dynamics and biomass storage of an eastern Amazonian rainforest
by Antonio Carlos Lola da Costa and David Galbraith and Samuel Almeida and Bruno Takeshi and Tanaka Portela and Mauricio da Costa and João de Athaydes Silva Junior and Alan P. Braga and Paulo H. L. de Gonçalves and Alex AR de Oliveira and Rosie Fisher and Oliver L. Phillips and Daniel B. Metcalfe and Peter Levy and Patrick Meir
The New Phytologist, ISSN 0028-646X, 8/2010, Volume 187, Issue 3, pp. 579 - 591
At least one climate model predicts severe reductions of rainfall over Amazonia during this century. Long-term throughfall exclusion (TFE) experiments... 
Trees | Rain | Throughfall | Mortality | Forest ecology | Biomass | Tropical forests | Drought | Tropical rain forests | Aboveground biomass | biomass | tree mortality | wood production | Amazon rainforest | drought | Tree mortality | Wood production | CARBON | POSITIVE FEEDBACKS | PLANT SCIENCES | WOOD DENSITY | ABOVEGROUND LIVE BIOMASS | EL-NINO DROUGHT | TROPICAL FORESTS | BRAZILIAN AMAZONIA | WATER STATUS | CLIMATE | Time Factors | Trees - classification | Droughts | Brazil | Soil | Trees - growth & development | Wood - growth & development | Plant Stems - growth & development | Vegetation dynamics | Rain and rainfall | Rain forests | Analysis | Naturvetenskap | Physical Geography | Naturgeografi | Natural Sciences | Geovetenskap och miljövetenskap | Earth and Related Environmental Sciences
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16. Full Text Impact of elevation and weather patterns on the isotopic composition of precipitation in a tropical montane rainforest
by Windhorst, D and Waltz, T and Timbe, E and Frede, H.-G and Breuer, L
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, ISSN 1027-5606, 01/2013, Volume 17, Issue 1, pp. 409 - 419
This study presents the spatial and temporal variability of delta O-18 and delta H-2 isotope signatures in precipitation of a south Ecuadorian montane cloud... 
STABLE-ISOTOPES | O-18 | GEOSCIENCES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY | RESIDENCE TIME | CLIMATE CONTROLS | MESOSCALE CATCHMENT | AMAZON BASIN | RUNOFF PROCESSES | FRESH-WATERS | DEUTERIUM EXCESS | WATER RESOURCES | ALTITUDE | Weather | Meteorological research | Rain forests | Rain and rainfall | Enrichment | Climatology | Precipitation | Moisture | Signatures | Isotopes | Altitude
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17. Margaret Mee in search of flowers of the Amazon forests
: diaries of an English artist reveal the beauty of the vanishing rainforest
by Mee, Margaret and Morrison, Tony
1989, ISBN 9781869901080, 302
Mee, Margaret 1909- Diaries | Flowers | Mee, Margaret | Rain forests | Natural history | Amazon River Region Description and travel
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18. Full Text Using the Delphi method to value protection of the Amazon rainforest
by Strand, Jon and Carson, Richard T and Navrud, Stale and Ortiz-Bobea, Ariel and Vincent, Jeffrey R
Ecological Economics, ISSN 0921-8009, 01/2017, Volume 131, pp. 475 - 484
Valuing global environmental public goods can serve to mobilize international resources for their protection. While stated-preference valuation methods have... 
Nonmarket valuation methods | Amazon rainforest | Delphi method | Stated preference | Contingent valuation | SERVICES | BENEFIT TRANSFER | CHOICE EXPERIMENTS | COMBINATION | ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES | WILLINGNESS-TO-PAY | CONSERVATION | ELICITATION | ENVIRONMENTAL GOODS | ECOLOGY | ECONOMICS | ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES | VALIDITY | Protection and preservation | Valuation | Rain forests
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