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Reliability of current estimates of schistosomiasis prevalence in the Rainforest Zone of the state of Pernambuco, Northeastern Brazil
Published 2006-10-01“…The Program for Schistosomiasis Control within the Unified Health System (PCE-SUS) was implemented by 1999 in the Rainforest Zone or "Zona da Mata" of Pernambuco (ZMP) aiming to carry out biennial stool surveys of whole populations through municipal health organs followed by treatment of the positives through the local units of the Family Health Program (PSF). …”
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Environmental heterogeneity influences liana community differentiation across a Neotropical rainforest landscape
Published 2024-03-01“…The study site was the Los Tuxtlas Tropical Biology Station, SE Mexico, a reserve that encompasses 640 ha of tropical rainforest. We sampled all lianas with basal diameter ≥1 cm in three 0.5‐ha plots established in each of five land units (totaling 15 plots and 7.5 ha). …”
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Effects of restoration on tree communities and carbon storage in rainforest fragments of the Western Ghats, India
Published 2019-09-01“…We examined 11 indicators of forest structure, tree diversity and composition (adult and sapling), and aboveground carbon storage in 25 pairs of actively restored (AR; 7–15 yr after weed removal and mixed‐native tree species planting) and naturally regenerating (NR) plots within degraded rainforest fragments, and in 17 less‐disturbed benchmark (BM) rainforest plots in the Western Ghats, India. …”
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Impact of pesticides exposure on Archachatina marginata snails in four Cameroon monomodal rainforest sites
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A darker shade of white: expat self-making in a Congolese rainforest enclave
Published 2017“…This article offers a new perspective on contemporary ‘whiteness’ in Africa by looking at the ambiguous ways in which it affects everyday life in and around the labour compounds of a multinational timber firm in the Congolese rainforest. As a foreign investment enclave, the logging concession is home to a small isolated community of European expatriate men whose ‘white’ faces evoke a set of ambivalent memories of colonial exploitation in the area. …”
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Tree species diversity and forest stand dynamics in a tropical rainforest in Southern Nigeria
Published 2015“…Twenty temporary sample plots were laid in Onigambari Forest Reserve, one of the major rainforest reserves in Nigeria (latitude 7º 25’ and 7º 55’N and longitude 3º 53’ and 3º 9’E) in an attempt to study the tree species diversity and stand structure. …”
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Short-term movements and strong dependence on figs of binturongs (Arctictis binturong) in Bornean rainforests
Published 2018“…We evaluated short-term movements of three radio-collared binturongs in relation to food distribution in Bornean rainforests, in addition to the basic ecological information on their home-range size and diet. …”
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Vessel traits across a land use gradient in the tropical rainforests of Sabah, Malaysia
Published 2019“…The present study provided an important insight into vascular strategies of trees in Bornean rainforest and highlighted potential limitations on forest resilience during future climatic extremes.…”
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GSK3 beta-inhibitory activity in microfungal isolated from Sabah rainforest soils
Published 2017“…This study was aimed to search for potential GSK-3β inhibitors in soil microfungi isolated from Sabah rainforests. In this study, a total of 122 soil samples were collected from west coast and interior division of Sabah whereby 165 microfungi strains were successfully isolated on potato dextrose agar and malt extract agar. …”
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Impact of discrete wavelet transform on discriminating airborne hyperspectral tropical rainforest tree species
Published 2014“…Discriminating tropical rainforest tree species is still a challenging task due to a variety of species with high spectral similarity and due to very limited studies conducted in this area. …”
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Balancing Biodiversity with Land Use in the Lowland Rainforests of Peninsular Malaysia, a Discussion Paper
Published 2006“…Stimulation of a competitive industry with the oil palm industry that maintains intact natural forest would bolster the security of the rainforest from an economic perspective.…”
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