Luiz Carlos de Matos Bonates

TL;DR: In this article, a simple isotope mixing model was used to evaluate the relative proportion of water vapour generated by plant transpiration and by soil evaporation at two sites in the Amazon basin.

TL;DR: A gap analysis suggests that existing Amazonian protected areas and indigenous territories will protect viable populations of most threatened species if these areas suffer no further degradation, highlighting the key roles that protected areas, indigenous peoples, and improved governance can play in preventing large-scale extinctions in the tropics in this century.

TL;DR: This pipeline provides a conservative estimate of a species’ area of occupancy, within an area slightly larger than its extent of occurrence, compatible to e.g. IUCN red list assessments.

TL;DR: By averaging several methods to estimate total richness, this work confirms that over 15,000 tree species are expected to occur in Amazonia and shows that the species abundance distribution of Amazonia is best approximated by a logseries with aggregated individuals, where aggregation increases with rarity.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used stable isotope ratios and concentration values of ambient CO 2 to calculate the recycling of respiratory CO 2 in tropical forests in the Amazon basin during the dry season.