Amazonia

Nepstad, D.C. Forest Regrowth inAbandoned Pastures of Eastern Amazonia Limitations to Tree Seedling Survival and Growth Dissertation Yale University New Haven, CT, 1989. 

The canopy effect, carbon isotope ratios and foodwebs in Amazonia. Journal of... 

Van der Merwe, NJ. and Medina, E. 1991 The canopy effect, carbon isotope ratios and foodwebs in Amazonia. Journal of Archaeological Science 18 249-259. 

Kaplan, M. A. C. 1995. Amazonia versus Australia. Geographically distant, chemically close. In R. Seidl, O. R. Gottlieb, and M. A. C. Kaplan (eds.). Chemistry of the Amazon. Biodiversity, Natural Products, and Environmental Issues. P. American Chemical Society, Washington, D.C. 

Porvari P. 1995. Mercury levels of fish in Tucumi hydroelectric reservoir and in River Mojn in Amazonia, in the state of Para, Brazil. Sci Total Environ 175 109-117. 

Dufour, D.L. 1988. Cyanide content of cassava (Manihot esculenta, Euphorbiaceae) cultivars used by Tukanoan indians in northwest Amazonia. Econ. Botany 42 255-266. 

Freyssinet, P. Farah, A.S. 2000. Geochemical mass balance and weathering rates of ultramafic schists in Amazonia. Chemical Geology, 170, 133-151. 

Dufour DL. 1988. Dietary cyanide intake and serum thiocyanate levels in Tukanoan Indians in Northwest Amazonia. Am J Phys Anthropol 75 205. 

De Souza, L. L., Ferrari, S. F., Da Costa, M. L., and Kern, D. C. (2002). Geophagy as a correlate of folivory in red-handed howler monkeys [Alouatta belzebul) from eastern Brazilian Amazonia. Journal ofChemical Ecology 28,1613-1621. 

Graham B, Mayol-Bracero OL, Guyon P, Roberts GC, Decesari S, Facchini MG, Artaxo P, Maenhaut W, Koll P, Andreae MO, Water-soluble organic compounds in biomass burning aerosols over Amazonia. 1. Characterization... 

Schultes, R. E., and R. F. Raffauf. The Healing Forest medicinal and toxic plants of the northwest Amazonia. Dioscorides Press, Portland, OR. 1995 432-436. 

Radzi bin Abas, M., B. R. T. Sinioneit, V. Elias, J. A. Cabral, and J. N. Cardoso, Composition of Higher Molecular Weight Organic Matter in Smoke Aerosol from Biomass Combustion in Amazonia, Chemosphere, 30, 995-1015 (1995). 

This is a family of tropical America, especially Amazonia. 

This small tropical family has been used as a potherb in Indonesia but was found to be toxic to cattle in areas of Amazonia where cows had taken it as fodder. No reports of such toxicity are known from areas of the Gulf Coast of the United States where it has been reported to be eaten by slock. 

AMAZ Herbario, Universidad Nacional de la Amazonia Peruana, Iqui-tos. 

During several years of field work in llic Northwcsl Amazonia, 1 lived and worked with members of many of the Amazonian Indian tribes. It was an extraordinary opportunity to observe, appreciate, and record their local customs, rituals, and particularly, as a botanist, their intelligent uses of the plants of the forests in which they lived. The importance of this information, beyond simply creating an interesting elhnobolanical record, was not entirely obvious at the lime. 

Valente, S. A. S., Valente, V. C., and Pinto, A. Y. N. (2002). Por que ocorrem episodios familiares de doenga de Chagas associado a transmissao oral na Amazonia Brasileira ... 

Andreae, M. O., R. W. Talbot, H. Berresheim, and K. M. Beecher. 1990. Precipitation chemistry in central Amazonia. Journal of Geophysical Research 95 16987-16999. 

A. (1995). Belowground cycling of carbon in forests and pastures of Eastern Amazonia. Global Biogeochem. Cycles 9(4), 515-528. 

Elias, V. O., Simoneit, B. R. T., Cordeiro, R. C., and Turcq, B. (2001). Evaluating levoglucosan as an indicator of biomass burning in Carajas, Amazonia A comparison to the charcoal record. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 65, 267-272. 

Martius, C. (1992) Food provisioon storing by xylophagous termites in Amazonia (Isoptera Nasutitermitidae). Entomol. Gener. 17, 269-276. 

Ormosia Group.—An alkaloid obtained from Podopetalum ormondii was shown to have structure (18) by X-ray analysis and is thus epimeric with podopetaline at C-6 12 the same structure was assigned to amazonine, isolated from Ormosia amazonia, but it has not yet been possible to establish the identity of the two alkaloids. 

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