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Historical human footprint on modern tree species composition in the Purus-Madeira interfluve, central Amazonia by Levis, Carolina, de Souza, Priscila Figueira, Schietti, Juliana, Emilio, Thaise, Pinto, José Luiz Purri da Veiga, Clement, Charles R, Costa, Flavia R C

“…Native Amazonian populations managed forest resources in numerous ways, often creating oligarchic forests dominated by useful trees. The scale and spatial…”
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Systematic documentation and analysis of human genetic variation in hemoglobinopathies using the microattribution approach by Waye, John S, Riemer, Cathy, Gallivan, Monica V E, Kollia, Panagoula, Galanello, Renzo, Perseu, Lucia, Anstee, David J, Faustino, Paula, Harteveld, Cornelis L, Hoyer, James D, Peterson, Kenneth R, Giordano, Piero C, Stojiljkovic, Maja, Schrijver, Iris, Thein, Swee Lay, Gibbons, Richard J, Jarvis, Martin, Hardison, Ross C, Maglott, Donna, Francina, Alain, Borg, Joseph, Wada, Takahito, Basak, A Nazli, Giardine, Belinda, Pavlovic, Sonja, Costa, Flavia C, Papadopoulos, Petros, Old, John, Philipsen, Sjaak, Menzel, Stephan, Higgs, Douglas R, Radmilovic, Milena, Wajcman, Henri, Patrinos, George P, Fedosyuk, Halyna, Georgitsi, Marianthi, Traeger-Synodinos, Jan, Papadakis, Manoussos N, Joly, Philippe, Papachatzopoulou, Adamantia, Tully, Ray, Miller, Webb, Zukic, Branka, Felice, Alex E, Kanavakis, Emmanuel, Singleton, Belinda K, Wiemann, Claudia, Moradkhani, Kamran, Satta, Stefania, Clark, Barnaby, Chui, David H K

“…George Patrinos and colleagues report the first implementation of the microattribution approach to systematically document genetic variation associated with a…”
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The other side of droughts: wet extremes and topography as buffers of negative drought effects in an Amazonian forest by Esteban, Erick J. L., Castilho, Carolina V., Melgaço, Karina L., Costa, Flávia R. C.

“…Summary There is a consensus about negative impacts of droughts in Amazonia. Yet, extreme wet episodes, which are becoming as severe and frequent as droughts,…”
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Forest structure along a 600 km transect of natural disturbances and seasonality gradients in central‐southern Amazonia by Schietti, Juliana, Martins, Demétrius, Emilio, Thaise, Souza, Priscila F., Levis, Carolina, Baccaro, Fabricio B., Pinto, José Luiz Purri da Veiga, Moulatlet, Gabriel M., Stark, Scott C., Sarmento, Kelly, Araújo, R. Nazaré O., Costa, Flávia R. C., Schöngart, Jochen, Quesada, Carlos A., Saleska, Scott R., Tomasella, Javier, Magnusson, William E., Nardoto, Gabriela Bielefeld

“…Summary A negative relationship between stand biomass and the density of stems is expected to develop during the self‐thinning process in resource‐limited…”
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Embolism resistance drives the distribution of Amazonian rainforest tree species along hydro-topographic gradients by Oliveira, Rafael S., Costa, Flavia R. C., van Baalen, Emma, de Jonge, Arjen, Bittencourt, Paulo R., Almanza, Yanina, de V. Barros, Fernanda, Cordoba, Edher C., Fagundes, Marina V., Garcia, Sabrina, Guimaraes, Zilza T. M., Hertel, Mariana, Schietti, Juliana, Rodrigues-Souza, Jefferson, Poorter, Lourens

“…• Species distribution is strongly driven by local and global gradients in water availability but the underlying mechanisms are not clear. Vulnerability to…”
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The biogeography of embolism resistance across resource gradients in the Amazon by Garcia, Maquelle N., Domingues, Tomas F., Oliveira, Rafael S., Costa, Flávia R. C.

“…AimUnderstanding tree mortality under climate change‐induced droughts requires knowledge of hydraulic trait distribution across environmental gradients. The…”
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Spatial Scale or Amplitude of Predictors as Determinants of the Relative Importance of Environmental Factors to Plant Community Structure by Pansonato, Marcelo P., Costa, Flávia R. C., de Castilho, Carolina V., Carvalho, Fernanda A., Zuquim, Gabriela

“…The literature on tropical rain forest plant-community relationships with environmental factors usually does not recognize that the relative importance of…”
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Distribution of pteridophyte communities along environmental gradients in Central Amazonia, Brazil by Zuquim, Gabriela, Costa, Flávia R. C., Prado, Jefferson, Braga-Neto, Ricardo

“…Extrapolation of local abundance–environment relationships to broader scales provides species distribution models used for conservation planning. We…”
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Can traits predict individual growth performance? A test in a hyperdiverse tropical forest by Poorter, Lourens, Castilho, Carolina V., Schietti, Juliana, Oliveira, Rafael S., Costa, Flávia R. C.

“…The functional trait approach has, as a central tenet, that plant traits are functional and shape individual performance, but this has rarely been tested in…”
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Assessing the relationship between forest types and canopy tree beta diversity in Amazonia by Emilio, Thaise, Nelson, Bruce Walker, Schietti, Juliana, Desmoulière, Sylvain J.-M., Espírito Santo, Helder M. V., Costa, Flávia R. C.

“…Planning of conservation priorities has often taken mapped forest types as surrogates for biological complementarity. In the Brazilian Amazon, these exercises…”
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The importance of hydraulic architecture to the distribution patterns of trees in a central Amazonian forest by Cosme, Luiza H. M., Schietti, Juliana, Costa, Flávia R. C., Oliveira, Rafael S.

“…Species distributions and assemblage composition may be the result of trait selection through environmental filters. Here, we ask whether filtering of species…”
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Beyond climate control on species range: The importance of soil data to predict distribution of Amazonian plant species by Figueiredo, Fernando O. G., Zuquim, Gabriela, Tuomisto, Hanna, Moulatlet, Gabriel M., Balslev, Henrik, Costa, Flávia R. C.

“…Aim: To evaluate the relative importance of climatic versus soil data when predicting species distributions for Amazonian plants and to gain understanding of…”
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Amazon forest carbon dynamics predicted by profiles of canopy leaf area and light environment by Stark, Scott C., Leitold, Veronika, Wu, Jin L., Hunter, Maria O., de Castilho, Carolina V., Costa, Flávia R. C., McMahon, Sean M., Parker, Geoffrey G., Shimabukuro, Mônica Takako, Lefsky, Michael A., Keller, Michael, Alves, Luciana F., Schietti, Juliana, Shimabukuro, Yosio Edemir, Brandão, Diego O., Woodcock, Tara K., Higuchi, Niro, de Camargo, Plinio B., de Oliveira, Raimundo C., Saleska, Scott R.

“…Tropical forest structural variation across heterogeneous landscapes may control above‐ground carbon dynamics. We tested the hypothesis that canopy structure…”
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Predicting environmental gradients with fern species composition in Brazilian Amazonia by Zuquim, Gabriela, Tuomisto, Hanna, Jones, Mirkka M, Prado, Jefferson, Figueiredo, Fernando O.G, Moulatlet, Gabriel M, Costa, Flavia R.C, Quesada, Carlos A, Emilio, Thaise, Rocchini, Duccio

“…AIM: A major problem for conservation in Amazonia is that species distribution maps are inaccurate. Consequently, conservation planning needs to be based on…”
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Effects of pharmaceuticals compounds and calcium on granulation, microbiology, and performance of anaerobic granular sludge systems by Faria, Clara V, Costa, Flávia C R, Jorge, Alexandre E L, Melo, Ana Luísa P, Silva, Ubiana C M, Santos, Vera L, Amaral, Míriam C S, Fonseca, Fabiana V

“…Granular sludge is a promising biotechnology to treat sewage contaminated with pharmaceuticals due to its increased toxicity resistance. In this context, this…”
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Broad Scale Distribution of Ferns and Lycophytes along Environmental Gradients in Central and Northern Amazonia, Brazil by Zuquim, Gabriela, Tuomisto, Hanna, Costa, Flávia R.C., Prado, Jefferson, Magnusson, William E., Pimentel, Tania, Braga-Neto, Ricardo, Figueiredo, Fernando O.G.

“…Establishing which factors determine species distributions is of major relevance for practical applications such as conservation planning. The Amazonian…”
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Phylogenetic analysis of Attalea (Arecaceae): insights into the historical biogeography of a recently diversified Neotropical plant group by Freitas, Cintia, Meerow, Alan W., Pintaud, Jean-Christophe, Henderson, Andrew, Noblick, Larry, Costa, Flavia R. C., Barbosa, Carlos E., Barrington, David

“…Abstract We present a dated phylogenetic tree for the Neotropical genus Attalea (Arecaceae). We used six orthologues from the nuclear WRKY gene family across…”
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The other side of tropical forest drought: do shallow water table regions of Amazonia act as large‐scale hydrological refugia from drought? by Costa, Flavia R. C., Schietti, Juliana, Stark, Scott C., Smith, Marielle N.

“…Summary Tropical forest function is of global significance to climate change responses, and critically determined by water availability patterns. Groundwater…”
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Validating forest types based on geological and land-form features in central Amazonia by Figueiredo, Fernando O.G., Costa, Flávia R.C., Nelson, Bruce W., Pimentel, Tania P.

“…Questions: Are topography-based forest types floristically consistent between sites in central Amazonia? Do broad landform and geological features control…”
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Local Hydrological Conditions Explain Floristic Composition in Lowland Amazonian Forests by Moulatlet, Gabriel M, Costa, Flávia R. C, Rennó, Camilo D, Emilio, Thaise, Schietti, Juliana

“…Amazonian forests harbor a large variety of understory herbs adapted to areas with different hydrological conditions, ranging from well‐drained to seasonally…”
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