Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources

Allometric equations for estimating biomass and carbon accumulation in commercial macauba palm plantations

This study aimed to fit allometric models for dry matter mass (kg/plant) and carbon accumulation (kg/plant) in macauba palm ( Acrocomia aculeata ). Data were obtained from 18 palms grown in Araponga, Minas Gerais State, Brazil, at ages of 3.0, 5.4, 10.5, 12.2, 15.5, and 16.4 year...

Amazon Forgotten Fishes. How the remarkable diversity of freshwater fishes is critical to people, rivers and forest

Across the vast sweep of the Amazon Basin, thousands of rivers, streams and floodplain lakes flow in an immense, interconnected waterscape— home to an unparalleled diversity of freshwater fishes. More than 2,700 species have so far been recorded, with dozens more added each year...