[HTML][HTML] Beyond diversity loss and climate change: Impacts of Amazon deforestation on infectious diseases and public health

JH Ellwanger, B Kulmann-Leal, VL Kaminski… - Anais da Academia …, 2020 - SciELO Brasil
Amazonian biodiversity is increasingly threatened due to the weakening of policies for
combating deforestation, especially in Brazil. Loss of animal and plant species, many not yet …

[HTML][HTML] Changes in climate and land use over the Amazon region: current and future variability and trends

JA Marengo, CM Souza Jr, K Thonicke… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
This paper shows recent progress in our understanding of climate variability and trends in
the Amazon region, and how these interact with land use change. The review includes an …

Sustainable hydropower in the 21st century

EF Moran, MC Lopez, N Moore… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Hydropower has been the leading source of renewable energy across the world, accounting
for up to 71% of this supply as of 2016. This capacity was built up in North America and …

Amazon hydrology from space: scientific advances and future challenges

AC Fassoni‐Andrade, AS Fleischmann… - Reviews of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
As the largest river basin on Earth, the Amazon is of major importance to the world's climate
and water resources. Over the past decades, advances in satellite‐based remote sensing …

Adaptation of urban drainage networks to climate change: A review

IM Kourtis, VA Tsihrintzis - Science of the Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
The present work reviews the main challenges regarding adaptation of urban drainage
networks to climate change by comparing 32 case studies from 29 articles, published …

Tropical peatlands and their contribution to the global carbon cycle and climate change

K Ribeiro, FS Pacheco, JW Ferreira… - Global change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Peatlands are carbon‐rich ecosystems that cover 185–423 million hectares (Mha) of the
earth's surface. The majority of the world's peatlands are in temperate and boreal zones …

Conservation of migratory fishes in the Amazon basin

F Duponchelle, VJ Isaac… - Aquatic …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The Amazon basin hosts the Earth's highest diversity of freshwater fish. Fish species have
adapted to the basin's size and seasonal dynamics by displaying a broad range of migratory …

The land–energy–water nexus of global bioenergy potentials from abandoned cropland

JS Næss, O Cavalett, F Cherubini - Nature Sustainability, 2021 - nature.com
Bioenergy is a key option in climate change mitigation scenarios. Growing perennial
grasses on recently abandoned cropland is a near-term strategy for gradual bioenergy …

Empty forest or empty rivers? A century of commercial hunting in Amazonia

AP Antunes, RM Fewster, EM Venticinque… - Science …, 2016 - science.org
The Amazon basin is the largest and most species-rich tropical forest and river system in the
world, playing a pivotal role in global climate regulation and harboring hundreds of …

MGB-IPH model for hydrological and hydraulic simulation of large floodplain river systems coupled with open source GIS

PRM Pontes, FM Fan, AS Fleischmann… - … Modelling & Software, 2017 - Elsevier
Large-scale hydrological models are useful tools for water resources studies, however, river
network flow routing is generally represented using simplified methods, which may lead to …