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Browsing by Subject "Amazon"
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Beef Production in Brazil: A Value Chain Approach to Reducing Deforestation
(2013-04-24)Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is a persistent environmental problem due to its contributions to global climate change and biodiversity loss. The beef industry is a major contributor to this problem with an estimated ... -
Compositional Trends in the Primary Floodplain Forest of the Manu National Park, Peru
(2009-04-24)Over the past ~20 years, various stand-level assessments of undisturbed Amazonian forests have revealed an increase in stem turnover (resulting from increases in recruitment and mortality), an increase in stem density ... -
Entrepreneurial Attractiveness: Amazon, Google, and the Search for Innovative Hot Spots
(2018-04-18)Recent economic literature suggests that entrepreneurship in technological fields can spur economic growth, making it a popular topic for city development officials. Yet, this increasingly popular phenomenon is met by many ... -
Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Supra-Intelligence
(2020)All things were created by Him and for Him:Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Supra-IntelligenceFascination with automation has captured the human imagination for thousands of years. As far back as 800 CE, when ... -
Examining Trends in Birth Location and Birth Attendance Among Women in the Amarakaeri Communal Reserve
(2018)Despite global improvements in maternal mortality rates, preventable maternal deaths are still an issue for many populations. Indigenous populations, especially those in Latin America, often do not utilize delivery services ... -
Implications of CMIP6 Projected Drying Trends for 21st Century Amazonian Drought Risk
(Earth's Future, 2020-10-01)Recent exceptionally hot droughts in Amazonia have highlighted the potential role of global warming in driving changes in rainfall and temperatures in the region. The previous generation of global climate models projected ... -
Improving the Modeling of Government Surveillance Data: a Case Study on Malaria in the Brazilian Amazon
(2013)The study of the effect of the environment (e.g., climate and land use) on disease typically relies on aggregate disease data collected by the government surveillance network. The usual approach to analyze these data, however, ... -
Investigating the Geological and Biogeographical Cenozoic History of the Amazon-Andes Region
(2019)The Amazon-Andes region of tropical South America plays host to the world’s largest river, its highest biodiversity and one of its highest mountain chains, as well as a long and complex history. As such, it represents an ... -
Is the Interoceanic highway exporting deforestation? A comparison of the intensity of regional Amazonian deforestation drivers within Brazil, Bolivia and Peru
(2008-04-25)The Inter-Oceanic highway is a 1.9 billion dollar project that bisects southern Amazonia between the triple border region of Peru, Brazil and Bolivia. Many believe that a project of this magnitude will not only spur the ... -
Malaria Transmission in Border Regions of the Western Amazon: Incorporating watersheds into timeseries analysis to address disease reintroduction and spillover along the Ecuador-Peru border
(2021-04-30)Since 2010, Amazon-basin countries have experienced a 600% increase in malaria cases, the most rapid increase compared to any other region of the world. Border regions have been implicated as important hot spots of malaria ... -
Promoting Investments in Ecosystem Services: the Case of the Peruvian Amazon
(2010-04-23)Natural capital and the Ecosystem Services (ES) that flow from it are essential to civilization as they provide both the conditions and the processes that sustain human life. Peru possesses the third largest tropical forest ... -
Remote Sensing of Fire, Flooding, and White Sand Ecosystems in the Amazon
(2009)Human and natural disturbance affect the Amazon basin at several spatial and temporal scales. In this thesis, I used satellite-detected hot pixels to examine patterns of human-caused disturbance and protected areas in the ... -
Role of Surface Evapotranspiration on Moist Convection along the Eastern Flanks of the Andes
(2014)The contribution of surface evapotranspiration (ET) to moist convection, cloudiness and precipitation along the eastern flanks of the Andes (EADS) was investigated using the Weather Research and Forecasting (ARW-WRF3.4.1) ... -
Seasonal and Interannual Variations of Carbonaceous Aerosols over the Amazon
(2020)This study examines the seasonal and interannual variabilities of carbonaceous aerosols, including black carbon (BC) and organic carbon (OC), over the years of 2005-2016 by using outputs from the NASA GISS ModelE simulations ... -
Temporal Trends in Secondary Forest Carbon Sequestration
(2012-04-27)With heightened concerns about climate change and greenhouse gas emissions, understanding the mechanics of carbon sequestration is becoming more important than ever. The world’s tropical forests are being sought for their ... -
The Cenozoic History of the Andean Foreland in Southeastern Peru
(2018)Results from two geographical study areas are presented in this dissertation, contributing important new information about the Cenozoic geological, environmental and biological regime. At the first locality along the Manu ... -
The Effects of Canopy Light on Sapling Growth in a Lowland, Primary Amazonian Forest
(2009-04-24)Light is an important factor governing seedling establishment and tree growth in tropical forests. A series of hemispherical lens canopy pictures were taken in a long-term, permanent tree plot at Cocha Cashu Biological Station, ... -
The Impact of Flooding on Malarial Transmission within Roadway Communities in the Peruvian Amazon
(2014)Severe flooding inundated the lowlands of Peru between 2011 and 2012. The rainfall and ensuing elevation in river levels coincided with a marked increase in human malaria. This study analyzes sampled Anopheles mosquitoes ...
