The Fate of Sedimentary Reactive Iron at the Land‐Ocean Interface: A Case Study From the Amazon Shelf by Paul Vosteen, Timo Spiegel, Martha Gledhill, Martin Frank, Matthias Zabel, Florian Scholz

“…We found that ∼22% of the Amazon River‐derived Fe oxides are converted to Fe‐containing clay minerals in Amazon shelf sediments. …”
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Unraveling one of the ‘Big Five’: update of the taxonomy of Triphoridae (Gastropoda, Triphoroidea) from Brazil by Maurício Romulo Fernandes, Alexandre Dias Pimenta

“…A few species occur exclusively near the mouth of the Amazon River, whereas others inhabit a local biogenic reef, possibly serving as a biogeographical corridor that connects western Atlantic populations. …”
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Both cetaceans in the Brazilian Amazon show sustained, profound population declines over two decades. by Vera M F da Silva, Carlos E C Freitas, Rodrigo L Dias, Anthony R Martin

“…The Amazon basin hosts two, very different, dolphins-the boto or Amazon river dolphin (Inia geoffrensis) and the smaller tucuxi (Sotalia fluviatilis). …”
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Tectonic and Climatic Controls on Continental River Systems by Goldberg, Samuel L.

“…In the third chapter, I show that large lowland Amazon rivers have been quickly responsive to cyclical Quaternary climate changes, and as a result have repeatedly incised and aggraded with successive wettings and dryings of the region. …”
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Large lake gauging using fractional imagery by Park, Edward, Lewis, Quinn W., Sanwlani, Nivedita

“…A probabilistic mean of elevation values for all water-designated pixels (between 5% and 95% filled within each grid) produces lake water levels often accurate to within ±50 cm of gauged reference data on Lake Curuai in the Amazon River and Tonle Sap Lake along the Mekong River. …”
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Projected increases in the annual flood pulse of the Western Amazon by Zulkafli, Zed Diyana, Buytaert, Wouter, Manz, Bastian, Rosas, Claudia Veliz, Willems, Patrick, Lavado-Casimiro, Waldo, Guyot, Jean-Loup, Santini, William

“…Here we use a distributed land surface model to quantify the potential impact of this change in the climate on the hydrological regime of the upper Amazon river. Using extreme value analysis, historical and future projections of the annual minimum, mean, and maximum river flows are produced for a range of return periods between 1 and 100 yr. …”
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Epidemiological aspects of Toxoplasma gondii infection in riverside communities in the Southern Brazilian Amazon by Sérgio Neto Vitaliano, Gabriel Maciel de Mendonça, Felipe Amsterdam Maia de Sandres, Juliana de Souza Almeida Aranha Camargo, Paulo de Tarso, Sérgio de Almeida Basano, Jéssica Carolinne Damasceno e Silva, Viviane Krominski Graça de Souza, Glenci Cartonilho, Alexandre Thomé da Silva de Almeida, Solange Maria Gennari, Luís Marcelo Aranha Camargo

“…Information on the prevalence of T. gondii infection is scarce in some regions of Brazil, including riverside communities along the Amazon River basin. M METHODS: The prevalence of T. gondii in 231 people, aged 1-85 years, who were living in four riverside communities along the Purus River, Lábrea, State of Amazonas, Brazil, was determined. …”
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Fatal <i>Streptococcus iniae</i> Infection in a Juvenile Free-Ranging Short-Beaked Common Dolphin (<i>Delphinus delphis</i>) by Rebecca Souter, Anne-Lise Chaber, Ken Lee, Aaron Machado, Jia Lam, Lucy Woolford

“…<i>Streptococcus iniae (S. iniae)</i> is a significant aquatic pathogen of farmed fish species, important zoonotic pathogen, and reported cause of disease in captive Amazon River dolphins (<i>Inia geoffrensis</i>) and a bottlenose dolphin (<i>Tursiops truncatus</i>). …”
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Connectivity of Neotropical River Basins in the Central Guiana Shield Based on Fish Distributions by Lesley S. de Souza, Jonathan W. Armbruster, Philip W. Willink

“…We found high species richness and diversity within the Takutu (Amazon River drainage) and Rupununi rivers (Essequibo River drainage). …”
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Contribution of automatically generated radar altimetry water levels from unsupervised classification to study hydrological connectivity within Amazon floodplains by Pauline Enguehard, Frédéric Frappart, Pierre Zeiger, Fabien Blarel, Frédéric Satgé, Marie-Paule Bonnet

“…Study region: The Curuaí floodplain in the low Amazon river in the Pará state of Brazil and Juruá basin, a major Solimões tributary. …”
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Statistical prediction of terrestrial water storage changes in the Amazon Basin using tropical Pacific and North Atlantic sea surface temperature anomalies by C. de Linage, J. S. Famiglietti, J. T. Randerson

“…Floods and droughts frequently affect the Amazon River basin, impacting transportation, agriculture, and ecosystem processes within several South American countries. …”
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Phylogeography of a Typical Forest Heliothermic Lizard Reveals the Combined Influence of Rivers and Climate Dynamics on Diversification in Eastern Amazonia by Áurea A. Cronemberger, Fernanda P. Werneck, Teresa C. S. Ávila-Pires

“…Phylogenetic inference recovered ten K. calcarata structured lineages in eastern Amazonia, some of them limited by the Amazon River and its southern tributaries (Tapajós, Xingu, and Tocantins), although we detected occasional haplotype sharing across some of the river banks. …”
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Exploring Virome Diversity in Public Data in South America as an Approach for Detecting Viral Sources From Potentially Emerging Viruses by Fernando G. Mazur, Leandro M. Morinisi, Junior Olímpio Martins, Pedro Pontes Bueno Guerra, Caio C. M. Freire

“…The metagenomes with the most important viral sequences in the analyzed environmental models were 1) aquatic samples from the Amazon River, 2) sewage from Brasilia, and 3) soil from the state of São Paulo, while the models of animal transmission were detected in mosquitoes from Rio Janeiro and Bats from Amazonia. …”
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Decadal Spatiotemporal Halocline Analysis by ISAS15 Due to Influx of Major Rivers in Oceans and Discrepancies Illustrated Near the Bay of Bengal by Kashif Iqbal, Shengchun Piao, Minghui Zhang

“…Such computations are multilayered, i.e., for 1, 3, 5, and 10 m, and conducted along major freshwater influxes, i.e., the Amazon River, Bay of Bengal (BoB), and Yangtze River, on decadal scales, i.e., in 2004 and in 2014. …”
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Variability of Precipitation Recycling and Moisture Sources over the Colombian Pacific Region: A Precipitationshed Approach by Angelica M. Enciso, Olga Lucia Baquero, Daniel Escobar-Carbonari, Jeimar Tapasco, Wilmar L. Cerón

“…An intensified Caribbean Low-Level Jet inhibits moisture sources from the north between June and August, strengthening a southerly cross-equatorial flow from the Amazon River basin and the southeastern tropical Pacific. …”
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Surface freshwater storage and dynamics in the Amazon basin during the 2005 exceptional drought by Frédéric Frappart, Fabrice Papa, Joecila Santos da Silva, Guillaume Ramillien, Catherine Prigent, Frédérique Seyler, Stéphane Calmant

“…The Amazon river basin has been recently affected by extreme climatic events, such as the exceptional drought of 2005, with significant impacts on human activities and ecosystems. …”
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Identification of gene fragments related to nitrogen deficiency in Eichhornia crassipes (Pontederiaceae) by Fu Minghui, Jiang Lihua, Li Yuanmei, Yan Guohua, Zheng Lijun, Peng Jinping

“…Eichhornia crassipes is an aquatic plant native to the Amazon River Basin. It has become a serious weed in freshwater habitats in rivers, lakes and reservoirs both in tropical and warm temperate areas worldwide. …”
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Highways and outposts: economic development and health threats in the central Brazilian Amazon region by Damacena Giseli N, Feitosa Patrícia, Barcellos Christovam, Andreazzi Marco A

“…High homicide rates were associated with high proportions of migrants, while connection to the Amazon River played a protective role. AIDS incidence was higher in municipalities with recent increases in GDP and high proportions of urban population.…”
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An explicit GIS-based river basin framework for aquatic ecosystem conservation in the Amazon by E. Venticinque, B. Forsberg, R. Barthem, P. Petry, L. Hess, A. Mercado, C. Cañas, M. Montoya, C. Durigan, M. Goulding

“…This is due, in part, to the enormous size, multinational composition and interconnected nature of the Amazon River system, as well as to the absence of an adequate spatial model for integrating data across the entire Amazon Basin. …”
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Planform Dynamics and Cut-Off Processes in the Lower Ucayali River, Peruvian Amazon by Jorge D. Abad, Alejandro Mendoza, Kristin Arceo, Zara Torres, Henry Valverde, Gerles Medina, Christian Frias, Moisés Berezowsky

“…In the lower portion of the Ucayali River, before its confluence to the Marañon River where the Amazon River is born, the increase in water and sediment discharge triggers bends with secondary channels (transitional stage from purely meandering to anabranching), which influence the planform migration rates and patterns of the sinuous channels. …”
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