Man biting rate seasonal variation of malaria vectors in Roraima, Brazil by Fábio Saito Monteiro de Barros, Nildimar Alves Honório

“…This is a short report on range distribution and biting indices for Anopheles darlingi and An. albitarsis during the dry and rainy season that follows river level variation in a savanna/alluvial forest malaria system area in the Northern Amazon Basin. Distribution range and adult biting indices were at their highest during the rainy season for both An. darlingi and An. albitarsis. …”
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New record of Spot-Legged Turtle, Rhinoclemmys punctularia (Daudin, 1801) (Reptilia, Testudines, Geoemydidae), from an Amazon ecotonal zone in the Tocantins–Araguaia rive... by Maria Augusta Paes Agostini, Ewerthon O. Batista, Wilson Rufino Dias Junior, Richard C. Vogt, Thiago Costa Gonçalves Portelinha

“…These new findings help enable future investi-gations better understand the distribution of R. punctularia in the southern Amazon Basin and in ecotones.…”
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Revision of the South American freshwater fish genus Laemolyta Cope, 1872 (Ostariophysi: Characiformes: Anostomidae) by Kelly Cristina Mautari, Naércio Aquino Menezes

“…Five species are recognized: Laemolyta fernandezi Myers, 1950, from the río Orinoco (Venezuela) and the sub-basins Tocantins/Araguaia and Xingu, L. orinocensis (Steindachner, 1879), restricted to the río Orinoco, L. garmani (Borodin, 1931) and L. proxima (Garman, 1890), from the Amazon basin with the latter also occurring in the Essequibo River (Guiana), and L. taeniata (Kner, 1859), from the Amazon and Orinoco basins. …”
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Ethnozoology of Sotalia fluviatilis (Cetacea, Delphinidae), in the north channel of the Amazon River, Amapá – Brazil by Andréa de Araújo, Artur Lagoia Fonseca de Miranda, Carlos Eduardo Costa Campos

“… The tucuxi, Sotalia fluviatilis is a species of river dolphin from the Amazon basin. The species is insufficiently known by science, and completely lacking information for the state of Amapá. …”
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Impacts of river fragmentation on limiting individual dietary specialization of Amazonian predatory fish by Jamerson Aguiar-Santos, Pieter deHart, Bruce Forsberg, Carlos Freitas

“…This study contributes to the understanding of how specific life history characteristics of populations of generalist predators are impacted by fragmentation within megadiverse environments such as the Amazon basin.…”
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Inferring Amazon leaf demography from satellite observations of leaf area index by S. Caldararu, P. I. Palmer, D. W. Purves

“…We develop a demographic model of leaf phenology based on the hypothesis that trees seek an optimal leaf area index (LAI) as a function of available light and soil water, and fit it to spaceborne observations of LAI over the Amazon basin, 2001–2005. We find the model reproduces the spatial and temporal LAI distribution whilst also predicting geographic variation in leaf age from the basin centre (2.1 ± 0.2 years), through to the lowest values over the deciduous eastern and southern Amazon (6 ± 2 months). …”
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Including Indigenous Peoples in Geospatial Services by Thomas Moore

“…This article addresses the benefits and challenges to including indigenous peoples and their organizations as partners in the geospatial services provided by SERVIR-Amazonia, a USAID and NASA initiative implemented in six Amazon Basin countries: Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, and Surinam. …”
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Lutzomyia sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) from middle and lower Putumayo department, Colombia, with new records to the country by Mauricio Barreto, María Elena Burbano, Pablo Barreto

“…L. richardwardi, L. claustrei, L. nocticola and L. micropyga are reported for the first time in the Colombian Amazon basin. L. pajoti, L. sipani and L. yucumensis are new records for Colombia.…”
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Historical dynamics and current environmental effects explain the spatial distribution of species richness patterns of New World monkeys by Paulo Vallejos-Garrido, Reinaldo Rivera, Oscar Inostroza-Michael, Enrique Rodríguez-Serrano, Cristián E. Hernández

“…Results We found one significant cluster of high values for species richness in the Amazon basin. Most dispersal events occurred from the Amazonian subregion to other Neotropical areas. …”
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Molecular comparison of topotypic specimens confirms Anopheles (Nyssorhynchus) dunhami Causey (Diptera: Culicidae) in the Colombian Amazon by Freddy Ruiz, Yvonne-Marie Linton, David J Ponsonby, Jan E Conn, Manuela Herrera, Martha L Quiñones, Iván D Vélez, Richard C Wilkerson

“…That An. dunhami occurs in Colombia and also possibly throughout the Amazon Basin, is of importance to vector control programs, as this non-vector species is morphologically similar to known malaria vectors including An. nuneztovari, Anopheles oswaldoi and Anopheles trinkae. …”
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An introductory framework for ‘Habilito: Debt for Life’ by Chuck Sturtevant

“…This system is used throughout the Bolivian lowlands, and much of the rest of the Amazon basin, to secure labor in remote areas. Timber merchants advance market goods to Mosetenes at inflated prices, in exchange for tropical hardwood timber. …”
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Projected precipitation changes in South America: a dynamical downscaling within CLARIS by Anna A. Sorensson, Claudio G. Menéndez, Romina Ruscica, Peter Alexander, Patrick Samuelsson, Ulrika Willén

“…In southern Amazonia, northeastern Brazil and the Amazon basin, the maximum number of consecutive dry days increases and mean winter and spring precipitation decreases, indicating a longer dry season. …”
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Re-examining the hypothesis of allopatric distribution of Myoprocta acouchy and M. pratti (Mammalia: Dasyproctidae) in South America by Héctor E. Ramírez-Chaves, Andrés F. Suárez-Castro, Bruce D. Patterson

“…We reviewed specimens of Myoprocta from Colombia and found that both reddish and greenish forms are sympatric in the Amazon basin of the country, including areas adjoining Ecuador and Peru. …”
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A floristic survey of angiosperm species occurring at three landscapes of the Central Amazon várzea, Brazil by Bruno Luize, Eduardo Venticinque, Thiago Sanna Freire Silva, Evlyn Novo

“…The Amazonian floodplains harbor highly diverse wetland forests, with angiosperms adapted to survive extreme floods and droughts. About 14% of the Amazon Basin is covered by floodplains, which are fundamental to river productivity, biogeochemical cycling and trophic flow, and have been subject to human occupation since Pre-Colombian times. …”
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New Cernotina caddisflies from the Ecuadorian Amazon (Trichoptera: Polycentropodidae) by Lucas M. Camargos, Blanca Ríos-Touma, Ralph W. Holzenthal

“…Two new species of the caddisfly genus Cernotina Ross, 1938 (Polycentropodidae) are described from the lowland Amazon basin of Ecuador, Cernotina tiputini, new species, and Cernotina waorani, new species. …”
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Redescription of Schizodon dissimilis and appraisal of the dark barred species of the genus (Characiformes: Anostomidae) by Júlio Cesar Garavello, Heraldo Antonio Britski

“…Schizodon dissimilis and S. fasciatus have disjunct distributions, with the first occurring in northeastern basins, and the second widely distributed through the Amazon basin and rivers draining northward from the Guyana Shield. …”
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Description of two new species of Bujurquina (Teleostei: Cichlidae) from the Bolivian Amazon by Matías Careaga, Guido Miranda, Fernando M. Carvajal-Vallejos

“…Abstract Two new species of Bujurquina are described from the Bolivian Amazon basin. The first new species inhabits the Beni River drainage and is distinguished from its congeners in the combination of the following characters: longer snout, deeper head, body and caudal peduncle, shorter pectoral fin, more scales in the E1 series, discontinuous longitudinal band, bars 5 and 6 not fused, preopercular spot and coloration pattern on flank scales absent. …”
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Changes in volatile constituents during the ripening of cocona (Solanum sessiliflorum Dunal) fruit by Clara Elizabeth Quijano, Jorge A. Pino

“…Cocona (Solanum sessiliflorum Dunal) is a shrub native from the upper Orinoco region of the Amazon basin, recently his culture has extended and technified due to its edible fruits, which has begun to commercialize itself very it is desired by its exquisite flavor and aroma. …”
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Seasonal distribution and diel biting patterns of culicine mosquitoes in Costa Marques, Rondônia, Brazil by Terry A. Klein, Jose B. P. Lima, Amazonia Toda Tang

“…A study of peridomestic man-biting culicines in the Amazon Basin was conducted from January through December, 1987. …”
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Characterization of the wood properties of Cedrelinga cateniformis as substitute for timbers used for window manufacturing and outdoor applications by Volker Haag, Gerald Koch, Eckhard Melcher, Johannes Welling

“… Cedrelinga cateniformis (tornillo) is a timber species of the South American Amazon Basin. In its natural distribution area, the wood has various local uses, such as furniture, art work, door and window frames, and light construction. …”
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