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Institutional effects on ecological outcomes of community-based management of fisheries in the Amazon
Communities throughout the globe are increasingly being given the responsibility of resource management, making it necessary to understand the factors that lead to success in community-based management (CBM). ...
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Navigating Conflicts to Improve Livelihoods of Traditional Communities Impacted by Hydroelectric Dams
The dilemmas of population growth and increasing energy demands are worldwide concerns. The Amazon Basin has immense hydropower potential, but is vulnerable to the social-ecological and economic impacts of lar...
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Assessing biological traits of Amazonian high-value fishes through Local Ecological Knowledge of urban and rural fishers
Local ecological knowledge (LEK) has been increasingly acknowledged as a potential source of information on natural resources, especially in under sampled areas. In the Amazon, a small-scale fishery is multisp...
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Open AccessFloodplain land cover affects biomass distribution of fish functional diversity in the Amazon River
Land-cover change often shifts the distribution of biomass in animal communities. However, the effects of land-cover changes on functional diversity remain poorly understood for many organisms and ecosystems, ...
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Environmental influences on the distribution of arapaima in Amazon floodplains
This study investigated the environmental factors influencing the distribution of the endangered arapaima (Arapaima spp.) in floodplains of the Amazon. The abundance of arapaima was found to be positively related...
