Amazon Biome

respect the periods of great drought that we have faced in the state of Maranhão , with that water flow has decreased considerably, directly affecting the biodiversity of environment, which has remnants of the Atlantic Forest and Amazon Rainforest, two highly important biomes of our Brazil. Documentary analysis and fieldwork to collect water samples, which were analyzed by competent technicians FUNASA (National Health Foundation), and checked how these waters are being contaminated by…

Palavras-chave: Amazônia. Recursos naturais. Novo código florestal. Políticas de ocupação. The Brazilian Amazon, water resources and the “New Forest Code”: a reflective and critical reading! Abstract The debate surrounding Brazil’s “New Forest Code” calls for further assessments of the probable environmental impacts its implementation will cause on the natural resources of Brazil’s various biomes. The new proposals embedded in the subtext of the new Forest Code threaten the country’s…

on low income are the main users of firewood. The Brazilian cerrado was recently listed as one of the 25 hot spots for conservation of biodiversity, being amongst the most rich and endangered ecosystems of the world (MITTERMEYER et al., 1999). The biome contains a mosaic of savanna vegetation, gallery forests, and seasonal forests on limestone outcrops with over 6,000 vascular plants (MENDONÇA et al., 1998). It covers around two million ha but is being rapidly depleted of its natural…

conservation conclusions to be drawn (Murray-Smith et al. 2009) and making comprehensive alpha taxonomy of the group a desirable tool for environmental management at the biome level. A phylogenetic framework, as presented here, is required for this and is also necessary to understand the biogeography of the group and the history of the biomes in which it occurs and for studies investigating factors that drive speciation of large genera and tropical rain forest community assemblies. The…

Área (000 ha) 7.500 0,9 Florestas 6.000 Plantadas Parques de 128.000 Conservação Reservas 112.000 Indígenas Reservas Legais 377.500 e Outras 0,7 15,0 13,2 44,3 Fonte: Embprapa Satelite, IBGE e Conab Ecossistemas AMAZON BIOME Fonte: WWF Visão Geral Sistema de Transporte Brasileiro de Soja Investimentos Infraestruturais Portos Logística Futura Conclusão Maiores Problemas do Agronegócio Brasileiro (Revista Exame) Outros Seguro…

Econometrics and Integration with Climate Prediction: Scenarios of Future Landscapes and Land-Climate Interactions” e do projeto NSF (BCS-0620384) "Collaborative Research: Globalization, Deforestation, and the Livestock Sector in the Brazilian Amazon". Agradecemos também a Marcellus Caldas, Eugenio Arima, Cynthia Simmons e Peter Richards pelos comentários das versões iniciais deste manuscrito e a Ritaumaria Pereira e Dante Vergara, pelo apoio à pesquisa e produção…

risk to Brazilian sovereignty due to the presence of the largest drug trafficker and guerrilla group on the American continent, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). In addition, the region is located in the Amazon forest, one of the richest and most coveted biomes on the planet. The guerrilla organization that was born nearly half a century has undergone periods of growth and weakening, but currently still has the capacity to carry out effective direct or indirect actions. These

the world. However, the increase in production has been directly associated to the deforestation of the Amazon Rainforest. This culture began in the South and moved toward the central region of the country, spreading gradually to its northern part. This growth was mainly based on monoculture properties controlled by large transnational corporations, and has replaced the local biome: the Amazon rainforest. Such fact has worried both public and private entities, since there has been an…

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Indigenous lands are instruments for territorial protection that have been effectively contributing for biodiversity conservation on Brazil, especially in the Amazon region. In the Atlantic rainforest, however, not only the indigenous lands are fewer in number, they are also considerably smaller in geographic extension, when compared to the Amazon. The Maxakali indigenous land, located at northeastern Minas Gerais, in a transition zone between the coastal humid and the seasonal…