The Brazilian Cerrado

Author : Fernando Freitas de Lima,Caroline Honaiser Lescano,Ivan Pires de Oliveira
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030629496

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Fruits of the Brazilian Cerrado by Fernando Freitas de Lima,Caroline Honaiser Lescano,Ivan Pires de Oliveira Pdf

Fruits of the Brazilian Cerrado: Composition and Functional Benefits describes the nutritional, chemical and physical characteristics of the fruits of the Cerrado, as well as their pharmacological effects and use in phytotherapics. Chapters are dedicated to the morphological characteristics, macronutrients, micronutrients and active compounds of various fruits, with separate sections covering their peels, leaves, nuts, pulps, and other components. The text also includes detailed studies on the treatment of diseases with these natural products, as well as their applications in popular use by local communities. Authors explain the importance of bioactive compounds found in the fruits and their possible mechanisms of action in the organism. This text thus provides a valuable reference to researchers studying a range of topics, including functional foods, phytotherapy, and plant science.

Author : Johann G. Goldammer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783642753954

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Fire in the Tropical Biota by Johann G. Goldammer Pdf

In 1977, the Volkswagen Foundation sponsored the first of a series of International Symposia on Fire Ecology at Freiburg University, Federal Republic of Germany. The scope of the congresses was to create a platform for researchers at a time when the science of fire ecology was not yet recognized and established outside of North America and Australia. Whereas comprehensive information on the fire ecology of the northern boreal, the temperate, and the mediter ranean biotas is meanwhile available, it was recognized that conside rable gaps in information exist on the role of fire in tropical und sub tropical ecosystems. Thus it seemed timely to meet the growing scientific interest and public demand for reliable and updated infor mation and to synthesize the available knowledge of tropical fire ecology and the impact of tropical biomass burning on global eco system processes. The Third Symposium on Fire Ecology, again sponsored by the Volkswagen Foundation and held at Freiburg University in May 1989, was convened to prepare this first pantropical and multidisci plinary monograph on fire ecology!. The book, in which 46 scientists cooperated, analyzes those fire-related ecosystem processes which have not yet been described in a synoptic way. Following the editor's concept, duplication at previous efforts in describing tropical vegeta tion patterns and dynamics was avoided. Extensive bibliographical sources are given in the reference lists of the chapters.

Author : Paulo S.
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780231505963

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The Cerrados of Brazil by Paulo S. Pdf

The massive grasslands of Brazil -- known as the cerrados -- which cover roughly a quarter of its land surface and are among the most threatened regions in South America, have received little media attention. This book brings together leading researchers on the area to produce the first detailed account in English of the natural history and ecology of the cerrado/savanna ecosystem. Given their extent and threatened status, the richness of their flora and fauna, and the lack of familiarity with their unique ecology at the international level, the cerrados are badly in need of this important and timely work.

Author : Akio Hosono,Carlos Magno Campos da Rocha,Yutaka Hongo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781137431356

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Development for Sustainable Agriculture by Akio Hosono,Carlos Magno Campos da Rocha,Yutaka Hongo Pdf

Since the mid-1970s, the tropical savanna, known as Cerrado, has been transformed into one of the world's largest grain-growing regions. This book explores how and by what Brazil achieved inclusive and sustainable growth in the Cerrado.

Author : Rubens Caruso
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : OCLC:49304374

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The Brazilian Cerrado by Rubens Caruso Pdf

Author : Akio Hosono,Nobuaki Hamaguchi,Alan Bojanic
Publisher : Springer
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811361821

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Innovation with Spatial Impact: Sustainable Development of the Brazilian Cerrado by Akio Hosono,Nobuaki Hamaguchi,Alan Bojanic Pdf

This book is unique and original, constituting a pioneering study in the use of spatial economics and related analytical approaches to Brazil’s Cerrado agricultural development and the formation of agro-industrial value chains. This methodology is appropriate because Cerrado agriculture has been developed from scratch in a vast, previously barren area (204.7 million ha.) in which a spatial transformation has taken place. Until 40 years ago, this region, with its huge expanse of tropical savanna was believed to be unsuited to agriculture. Now, however, it has been transformed into an immense breadbasket, contributing to the mitigation of global food shortages. It also has contributed to the inland development of Brazil, promoting urbanization with a higher living standard and modern production techniques. This book identifies critical factors that enabled the transformation of the Cerrado. To understand the process of agricultural development and the formation of agro-industrial value chains, spatial economics and related approaches are essential because the process involves spatial interactions such as transportation, supply chains, knowledge spillovers, environmental constraints, migration, and urbanization. The book demonstrates that the initial development of Cerrado agriculture was a genuine spatial transformation with contributions from pioneering producers, agribusinesses, and central and local governments, as well as through international cooperation. It also discusses agriculture and agro-industrial value chains focusing on inclusive and sustainable development, a major concern of the international community particularly in terms of the Sustainable Development Goals.

Author : Domingos Ribeiro de Carvalho
Publisher : Editora CRV
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-05
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9786525136325

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SUSTAINED PRODUCTION IN THE CERRADO by Domingos Ribeiro de Carvalho Pdf

In this historical book, the author tries to tell the audience how the occupation of the Brazilian Cerrado Biome took place, which began in the 1970s and today places Brazil as the world's largest grain exporter. When President Juscelino Kubitschek built Brasília, he was criticized a lot because he was building a capital in the "middle of nowhere", and it really was true. The soil, in addition to not having any fertility, had no technology to make it productive. Initially, the president's boldness only served to show Brazilians the size of their country. Later, another visionary, also from Minas Gerais of the same lineage, Alysson Paolinelli managed to show that with technology and a lot of effort, these lands could become productive and for this he had the support of BDMG (Development Bank of Minas Gerais) that believed in his vision and took over the implementation of the various programs that served to demonstrate the feasibility of producing in the cerrado. The success of this initiative spread throughout Brazil, where the Cerrado Biome existed. The book also shows that all this growth in our agricultural production took place with only eight hundred, twenty thousand properties out of a total of five million, five hundred thousand that Brazil owns. The book also describes the various failed initiatives to occupy Brazilian soil, including the Amazon biome. Finally, the book shows that the occupation of the cerrado served as a real shield to divert the focus from the dangerous occupation of the Amazon in the same way it was being done. Alysson Paolinelli The recent nominee to the Nobel Peace Prize is also the author of the Foreword of this book

Author : Robert S. Ridgely,John A. Gwynne,Guy Tudor,Martha Argel
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781501704307

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Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil by Robert S. Ridgely,John A. Gwynne,Guy Tudor,Martha Argel Pdf

Brazil is the fifth largest country in the world and is one of the planet's richest places for bird diversity, especially when it comes to the number of endemic species. Brazil's Atlantic Forest region is one of the most dazzling of all. Immediately surrounding São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, this area of Brazil is also a relatively accessible area to birders from around the world. In the Birds of Brazil Field Guides, the Wildlife Conservation Society brings together a top international team to do justice to the incredible diversity of Brazilian birds. This second guide presents 927 bird species, 863 illustrated, that occur in just the southeastern Atlantic Forest biome (Mata Atlântica in Portuguese). Of these species, 140 are endemic and 105 near endemic to just this region; 83 of these are threatened. Modern and compact, this field guide provides illustrations of unparalleled quality, key field marks, and regional range maps to facilitate easy recognition of all species normally occurring in this vibrant and critically important area of Brazil.

Author : Ghillean T. Prance
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Botany
ISBN : UCAL:B3727061

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Dichapetalaceae by Ghillean T. Prance Pdf

Enth.: Dichapetalaceae ; Rhabdodendraceae.

Author : Ben M. McKay,Alberto Alonso-Fradejas,Arturo Ezquerro-Cañete
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000390520

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Agrarian Extractivism in Latin America by Ben M. McKay,Alberto Alonso-Fradejas,Arturo Ezquerro-Cañete Pdf

Amid the growing calls for a turn towards sustainable agriculture, this book puts forth and discusses the concept of agrarian extractivism to help us identify and expose the predatory extractivist features of dominant agricultural development models. The concept goes beyond the more apparent features of monocultures and raw material exports to examine the inherent logic and underlying workings of a model based on the appropriation of an ever-growing range of commodified and non-commodified human and non-human nature in an extractivist fashion. Such a process erodes the autonomy of resourcedependent working people, dispossesses the rural poor, exhausts and expropriates nature, and concentrates value in a few hands as a result of the unquenchable drive for profit by big business. In many instances, such extractivist dynamics are subsidized and/or directly supported by the state, while also dependent on the unpaid, productive, and reproductive labour of women, children, and elders, exacerbating unequal class, gender, and generational relations. Rather than a one-size-fits-all definition of agrarian extractivism, this collection points to the diversity of extractivist features of corporate-led, external-input-dependent plantation agriculture across distinct socio-ecological formations in Latin America. This timely challenge to the destructive dominant models of agricultural development will interest scholars, activists, researchers, and students from across the fields of critical development studies, rural studies, environmental and sustainability studies, and Latin American studies, among others.

Author : Mark Cochrane
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540773818

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Tropical Fire Ecology by Mark Cochrane Pdf

The tropics are home to most of the world’s biodiversity and are currently the frontier for human settlement. Tropical ecosystems are being converted to agricultural and other land uses at unprecedented rates. Land conversion and maintenance almost always rely on fire and, because of this, fire is now more prevalent in the tropics than anywhere else on Earth. Despite pervasive fire, human settlement and threatened biodiversity, there is little comprehensive information available on fire and its effects in tropical ecosystems. Tropical deforestation, especially in rainforests, has been widely documented for many years. Forests are cut down and allowed to dry before being burned to remove biomass and release nutrients to grow crops. However, fires do not always stop at the borders of cleared forests. Tremendously damaging fires are increasingly spreading into forests that were never evolutionarily prepared for wild fires. The largest fires on the planet in recent decades have occurred in tropical forests and burned millions of hectares in several countries. The numerous ecosystems of the tropics have differing levels of fire resistance, resilience or dependence. At present, there is little appreciation of the seriousness of the wild fire situation in tropical rainforests but there is even less understanding of the role that fire plays in the ecology of many fire adapted tropical ecosystems, such as savannas, grasslands and other forest types.

Author : Gerhard Gottsberger,Ilse Silberbauer-Gottsberger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Cerrado ecology
ISBN : 3000179283

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Life in the Cerrado: Origin, structure, dynamics and plant use by Gerhard Gottsberger,Ilse Silberbauer-Gottsberger Pdf

Author : André Augusto Rodrigues Salgado,Leonardo José Cordeiro Santos,Julio César Paisani
Publisher : Springer
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030043339

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The Physical Geography of Brazil by André Augusto Rodrigues Salgado,Leonardo José Cordeiro Santos,Julio César Paisani Pdf

This book presents the Brazilian natural space and environment. It describes the main environmental aspects of Brazil in relation to geology, climate, geomorphology, vegetation, fauna, water resources and environmental issues. The book presents a beautifully illustrated overview of the physical geography of the Amazon Forest, the central Brazilian savannah (Cerrado), the Cocais Forest, the semi-arid area (Caatinga), the Atlantic Forest area, the Pantanal (Brazilian wetlands), the Auraucárias Plateau, the Pampas area (South grasslands) and the Brazilian Coastal Environment (beaches and mangroves).

Author : Juan A. Blanco,Yueh-Hsin Lo,Shovonlal Roy
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789535120285

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Biodiversity in Ecosystems by Juan A. Blanco,Yueh-Hsin Lo,Shovonlal Roy Pdf

The term biodiversity has become a mainstream concept that can be found in any newspaper at any given time. Concerns on biodiversity protection are usually linked to species protection and extinction risks for iconic species, such as whales, pandas and so on. However, conserving biodiversity has much deeper implications than preserving a few (although important) species. Biodiversity in ecosystems is tightly linked to ecosystem functions such as biomass production, organic matter decomposition, ecosystem resilience, and others. Many of these ecological processes are also directly implied in services that the humankind obtains from ecosystems. The first part of this book will introduce different concepts and theories important to understand the links between ecosystem function and ecosystem biodiversity. The second part of the book provides a wide range of different studies showcasing the evidence and practical implications of such relationships.

Author : Shackford Pitcher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Soybean
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173023083668

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Soybean Production in Brazil by Shackford Pitcher Pdf