PURPOSE To describe the technique and results of percutaneous puncture of the external
carotid artery or one of its branches distal to a surgical arterial ligation. METHODS Forty-three …

Estimates of extinction risk for Amazonian plant and animal species are rare and not often
incorporated into land-use policy and conservation planning. We overlay spatial distribution …

… aa) protein that is encoded by a gene of 1128 bp. It exhibits an ATP binding site (aa 51–63)
and a nucleoside binding site (aa … among herpesviridae are also located at aa 50–66, 79–91, …

Understanding the processes that determine above‐ground biomass ( AGB ) in Amazonian
forests is important for predicting the sensitivity of these ecosystems to environmental …

Aim The accurate mapping of forest carbon stocks is essential for understanding the global
carbon cycle, for assessing emissions from deforestation, and for rational land‐use planning. …

Introduction Recent decades have seen a major international effort to inventory tree
communities in the Amazon Basin and Guiana Shield (Amazonia), but the vast extent and record …

The extent to which pre-Columbian societies altered Amazonian landscapes is hotly debated.
We performed a basin-wide analysis of pre-Columbian impacts on Amazonian forests by …

Species distribution models (SDMs) are widely used in ecology and conservation. Presence-only
SDMs such as MaxEnt frequently use natural history collections (NHCs) as occurrence …

OBJECTIVES The treatment of massive pulmonary embolism (PE) is a matter of debate. We
present our institutional experience of patients suffering from massive PE with the aim of …

Tree diversity and composition in Amazonia are known to be strongly determined by the water
supplied by precipitation. Nevertheless, within the same climatic regime, water availability …