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Várzea : diversity, development, and conservation of Amazonia's whitewater floodplains
- Title
- Várzea : diversity, development, and conservation of Amazonia's whitewater floodplains / edited by Christine Padoch [and others].
- Publication
- Bronx, N.Y. : New York Botanical Garden Press, ©1999.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Padoch, Christine.
- Description
- xi, 407 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm
- Series Statement
- Advances in economic botany ; v. 13
- Uniform Title
- Advances in economic botany ; v. 13.
- Subject
- Floodplain ecology > Amazon River Valley
- Sustainable development > Amazon River Valley
- Ecology
- Conservation of natural resources
- Ecology
- Conservation of Natural Resources
- ecology
- Conservation of natural resources
- Floodplain ecology
- Sustainable development
- Biodiversität
- Nachhaltigkeit
- Naturschutz
- Umweltverträglichkeit
- Várzea
- Ökologie
- Aufsatzsammlung
- Écologie des plaines inondables > Amazone, Vallée de l'
- Développement durable > Amazone, Vallée de l'
- South America
- Amazon River Valley
- Note
- Based on papers from a conference held in Macapá, Amapá, Brazil, Dec. 12-14, 1994.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Várzea fisheries in the middle Rio Solimões / Ronaldo B. Barthem -- Impact of the ornamental fish trade on the discus Symphysodon aequifasciatus: a case study from the floodplain forests of Estação Ecológica Mamirauá / William G.R. Crampton -- On structural complexity and fish diversity in an Amazonian floodplain / P.A. Henderson and B.A. Robertson -- Community management of floodplain lakes and the sustainable development of Amazonian fisheries / David McGrath [and others] -- Artisanal fisheries of Pirarucu at the Mamirauá Ecological Station / Helder Lima de Queiroz -- Fisheries development in the lower Amazon River / Mauro Luis Ruffino.
- Logging of Virola surinamensis in the Amazon floodplain: impacts and alternatives / Anthony B. Anderson [and others] -- Selective logging along the middle Solimões River / Ana Luisa K.M. Albernaz and J. Márcio Ayres -- Economic and social significance of logging operations on the floodplains of the Amazon estuary and prospects for ecological sustainability / Ana Cristina Barros and Christopher Uhl -- Mariti (Mauritia flexuosa) palms and their uses and management among the Ribeirinhos of the Amazon estuary / Mario Hiraoka -- Overview of the palms in the Várzea in the Amazon region / Francis Kahn and Andrew Henderson.
- Mamirauá: the conservation of biodiversity in an Amazonian flooded forest / J. Márcio Ayres [and others] -- Game animals, palms, and people of the flooded forests: management considerations for the Pacaya-Samiria National Reserve, Peru / Richard E. Bodmer [and others] -- Pacaya-Samiria Project: enhancing conservation and improving livelihoods in Amazonian Peru / Eduardo Durand and Dennis McCaffrey -- Equity, sustainable development and biodiversity preservation: some questions about ecological partnerships in the Brazilian Amazon / Deborah de Magalhães Lima.
- Fluvial dynamics and sustainable development in upper Rio Amazonas, Peru / Risto Kalliola [and others] -- Multiple use of central Amazon floodplains: reconciling ecological conditions, requirements for environmental protection, and socioeconomic needs / J.J. Ohly and Wolfgang J. Junk -- Changes in soil formation and vegetation on silt bars and backslopes of levees following intensive production of rice and jute / Miguel Pinedo-Vasquez -- Spatial heterogeneity and temporal variability of some Amazonian floodplain soils / Daniel J. Zarin.
- Usefulness of traditional technology for rural development: the case of tide energy near the mouth of the Amazon / Scott Douglas Anderson [and others] -- Farming above the flood in the Várzea of Amapá: some preliminary results of the Projeto Várzea / Christine Padoch and Miguel Pinedo-Vasquez -- Exploring the anthropogenic Amazon: estuarine landscape transformations in Amapá, Brazil / Hugh Raffles -- Twelve thousand years of human-environment interaction in the Amazon floodplain / Anna C. Roosevelt -- Probable consequences of the destruction of Brazilian stingless bees / Warwick Estevam Kerr [and others].
- ISBN
- 0893274194
- 9780893274191
- LCCN
- 98055089
- OCLC
- ocm40575379
- 40575379
- SCSB-9617850
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library