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Similar results were reported in deforested Amazonian rainforests (66). Within three years following forest clearing and burning, nutrient concentrations of soil leachates had returned to levels typical of primary forests of the area. A combination of high rates of immobilization and storage by successional vegetation, coupled with a decline in easily decomposable substrates, was attributed to the reduction in leaching losses. 

Figure 5. Amazonian tropical rainforest following slash-and-bum activities. Land use activities result in dramatic losses in biological diversity as well as soils and nutrient pools. These losses result in declines in the productive capacity of these forests.

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Van der Merwe, N.J. and Medina, E. 1989 Photosynthesis and C/ C ratios in Amazonian rain forests. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 53 1091-1094. 

The Amazon rubber industry collapsed almost overnight. In 1876 the English botanist Henry Wickham shipped 70,000 Hevea seeds to the Royal Botanic Gardens in London. New strains of Hevea were developed that produced three to four times as much mbber and were more disease-resistant than their wild Amazonian cousins. Soon, seedlings were sent to Malaya, Java, and other islands of the East Indies. Thirty-five years later, rubber plantations on these islands took control of the industry. 

Schauss, A.G. et al.. Phytochemical and nutrient composition of the freeze-dried Amazonian pahn berry, Euterpe oleraceae Mart. (a9ai), J. Agric. Food Chem., 54, 8598, 2006. 

Roulet M, Lucotte M, Farella N, Serique G, Coelho H, Sousa Passes CJ, de Jesus da Silva E, Scavone de Andrade P, Mergler D, Amorim M. 1999. Effects of recent human colonization on the presence of mercury in Amazonian ecosystems. Water Air Soil Pollut 112 297-313. 

Betts R, Cox P, Collins M, Harris P, Huntingford C, Jones D. The role of ecosystem-atmosphere interactions in simulated Amazonian precipitation decrease and forest dieback under global climate warming. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 2004. 78(1) pp. 157-175. doi 10.1007/s00704-004-0050-y... 

Gehring C, Park S, Denicha M. Liana allometric biomass equations for Amazonian primary and secondary forest. Forest ecology and management, 2004. 195 pp. 69-83. doi 10.1016/j.foreco.2004.02.054... 

The Amazonian epoch, which includes the last 1.8 billion years in this period, there were only a small number of meteorite impacts, and Mons Olympus was formed. 

Schauss AG, Wu XL, Prior RL, Ou BX, Patel D, Huang DJ and Kababick JP. 2006. Phytochemical and nutrient composition of the freeze-dried Amazonian palm berry, Euterpe oleracea Mart. (Acai). J Agric Food Chem 54(22) 8598-8603. 

Grandjean P, White RF, Nielsen A, Cleary D, Santos ECD (1999) Methylmercury neurotoxicity in Amazonian children downstream from gold mining. Environ Health Perspect 107 587-591... 

Holmstedt, B., Lindgren, J. E., Plowman, T Rivier, L., Schultes, R. E., and Tovar, O. (1980) Indole alkaloids in Amazonian Myristicaceae Field and laboratory research. Botan. Museum Leaflets (Harvard University), 28 216-233. 

Freedland CS, Mansbach RS. (1999). Behavioral profile of constituents in ayahuasca, an Amazonian psychoactive plant mixture. Drug Alcohol Depend. 54(3) 183-94. 

The women announced that we would eliminate breakfast and lunch to make better time. It was their decision since they were doing the cooking it was too much of a chore to make a fire in the damp Amazonian forest. 

While Dennis wrote, the rest of us swam indolently in the river and washed our laundry under a clear, infinitely blue, and empty Amazonian sky. The background drone of the cicadas would occasionally rise in a coherent wave and sweep over the warm and shining surface of the gently drifting Igara-Parana, falling like electricity across the land in the heat of the equatorial day. 

To mention any obligation to another person seemed almost ungrateful in the circumstance. And what about the Nazi connection Did I really want to go off with a bunch of ex-SS types to the Amazonian rain forest On the other hand I was running out of money. And my lady friend had a penchant for torrid affairs carried on in my absence. As for the Nazi matter, I was confused. I knew that Max Planck was supposedly the only person ever to stand up to Hitler, telling him to keep his hands off the pure science of the Institute. Heintz had also gone far out of his way to let me know that his brother, also part... 

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