Qualifying the Information Detected from Airborne Laser Scanning to Support Tropical Forest Management Operational Planning by Cristiano Rodrigues Reis, Eric Bastos Gorgens, Danilo Roberti Alves de Almeida, Carlos Henrique Souza Celes, Jacqueline Rosette, Adriano Lima, Niro Higuchi, Jean Ometto, Reynaldo Campos Santana, Luiz Carlos Estraviz Rodriguez

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Ecology of ticks in a taxocenosis of snakes from the Serra do Mendanha, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with new host records by Jorge A. L. Pontes, Gilberto S. Gazêta, Davor Vrcibradic, Carlos F. D. Rocha

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Health service needs and perspectives of a rainforest conserving community in Papua New Guinea’s Ramu lowlands: a combined clinical and rapid anthropological assessment with parallel treatment of urgent cases by William Pomat, Jackie A Cassell, Hayley MacGregor, Stephen L Walker, Jo Middleton, Gavin Colthart, Francesca Dem, James Fairhead, Michael G Head, Joao Inacio, Mavis Jimbudo, Christopher Iain Jones, Moses Laman, Vojtech Novotny, Mika Peck, Jason Paliau, Jonah Philip, Shen Sui, Alan J Stewart, Alice Elkins, Richard J Hazell, Jessica A Stockdale, Ruma Umari

“…Objectives Determine community needs and perspectives as part of planning health service incorporation into Wanang Conservation Area, in support of locally driven sustainable development.Design Clinical and rapid anthropological assessment (individual primary care assessments, key informant (KI) interviews, focus groups (FGs), ethnography) with treatment of urgent cases.Setting Wanang (pop. c189), a rainforest community in Madang province, Papua New Guinea.Participants 129 villagers provided medical histories (54 females (f), 75 males (m); median 19 years, range 1 month to 73 years), 113 had clinical assessments (51f, 62m; median 18 years, range 1 month to 73 years). 26 ≥18 years participated in sex-stratified and age-stratified FGs (f<40 years; m<40 years; f>40 years; m>40 years). …”
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Key Roles of Dipterocarpaceae, Bark Type Diversity and Tree Size in Lowland Rainforests of Northeast Borneo—Using Functional Traits of Lichens to Distinguish Plots of Old Growth and Regenerating Logged Forests by Holger Thüs, Pat Wolseley, Dan Carpenter, Paul Eggleton, Glen Reynolds, Charles S. Vairappan, Gothamie Weerakoon, Robert J. Mrowicki

“…Many lowland rainforests in Southeast Asia are severely altered by selective logging and there is a need for rapid assessment methods to identify characteristic communities of old growth forests and to monitor restoration success in regenerating forests. …”
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Transformation of disabled people and their entrepreneurial attitude in the edu-tourism industry: A strategic colloboration between Universiti Utara Malaysia, Yayasan Emkay, Yayasan Pulau Banding & Belum Rainforest Resort by Abu Bakar, Lily Julienti, Mohamad, Armanurah, Abdullah, Syahrina, Sulaiman, Nor Intan Saniah, Mohd Ali Hanafiah, Norzalinda

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Corrigendum to "Throughfall and temporal trends of rainfall redistribution in an open tropical rainforest, south-western Amazonia (Rondônia, Brazil)" published in Hydrol.... by J. M. Moraes, H. Elsenbeer, S. Germer

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Caddisflies (Trichoptera) checklist and a new species of Helicopsyche von Siebold, 1856, from the Brejo de Altitude de Triunfo, a relict rainforest within the Caatinga domain, Northeast Brazil by Amanda Cavalcante-Silva, Rafael Pereira, Adolfo Ricardo Calor

“…Brejos de Altitude are evergreen seasonal forests, associated with plateau regions in the middle of the Caatinga domain in Northeast Brazil, which possibly acted as biological corridors between the Atlantic Forest and the Amazon rainforest during the Pleistocene. The first entomological survey in the highest point in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil, the Brejo de Altitude de Triunfo, was implemented and resulted in a checklist of caddisflies with six families, nine genera, and eleven species, including a new species. …”
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Flying squirrels use a mortise-tenon structure to fix nuts on understory twigs by Han Xu, Lian Xia, John R Spence, Mingxian Lin, Chunyang Lu, Yanpeng Li, Jie Chen, Tushou Luo, Yide Li, Suqin Fang

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Multi-Gene Phylogeny and Taxonomy of <i>Hypoxylon</i> (Hypoxylaceae, Ascomycota) from China by Haixia Ma, Zikun Song, Xiaoyan Pan, Yu Li, Zhanen Yang, Zhi Qu

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Climate change impacts on biodiversity and ecosystems in Sri Lanka: a review by Jeevan Dananjaya Kottawa-Arachchi, Madawala Arachchillage Wijeratne

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Human disturbance reduces the network connectivity in female fig wasps more than in males by Yaxuan Liu, Guangming Zhang, Chen Chen, Zhenyu Liu, Hongqing Wang

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HIV epidemic in a province of the Brazilian Amazon region: Temporal trend analysis by Adriana de Sá Pinheiro, Sandra Souza Lima, Glenda Roberta Oliveira Naiff Ferreira, Alexsandra Rodrigues Feijão, Richardson Augusto Rosendo da Silva, Elucir Gir, Renata Karina Reis, Fernanda Maria Vieira Pereira, Lucia Hisako Takase Gonçalves, Sandra Helena Isse Polaro, Aline Maria Pereira Cruz Ramos, Elia Pinheiro Botelho

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Identifying hotspots of woody plant diversity and their relevance with home ranges of the critically endangered gibbon (Nomascus hainanus) across forest landscapes within a tropica... by Xinran Li, Zhidong Zhang, Wenxing Long, Wenxing Long, Runguo Zang, Runguo Zang

Subjects: “…tropical rainforest…”
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Drone-Based Environmental Emergency Response in the Brazilian Amazon by Janiele Custodio, Hernan Abeledo

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Of forests and grasslands: human, primate, and ungulate palaeoecology in Late Pleistocene-Holocene Sri Lanka by Noel Amano, Noel Amano, Oshan Wedage, Oshan Wedage, Jana Ilgner, Nicole Boivin, Nicole Boivin, Nicole Boivin, Nicole Boivin, Michael Petraglia, Michael Petraglia, Michael Petraglia, Patrick Roberts, Patrick Roberts, Patrick Roberts

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Relationship between Fire Events and Land Use Changes in the State of São Paulo, Brazil by Sheena Philogene, Wenge Ni-Meister

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Celtis atlantica (Cannabaceae): A new endangered tree species from southwest of Brazil by Henrique Borges Zamengo, Fabio Mostacato Bastos, Débora Chamorro, André Luiz Gaglioti, Leandro Cardoso Pederneiras

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The distribution of bushmeat mammals in unflooded forests of the Central Amazon is influenced by poaching proxies by Gilson deSouza Ferreira Neto, Fabricio Beggiato Baccaro, Matthew J. Phillips, Rodrigo Lima Massara

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Climate Change Affects Reproductive Phenology in Lianas of Australia’s Wet Tropics by Nara O. Vogado, Jayden E. Engert, Tore L. Linde, Mason J. Campbell, William F. Laurance, Michael J. Liddell

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Investigating Different Local Polyurethane Coatings Degradation Effects and Corrosion Behaivors by <i>Talaromyces funiculosus</i> via Wire Beam Electrodes by Xiangping Hao, Kexin Yang, Yiding Yuan, Dawei Zhang, Lin Lu

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