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A book about the exploration and survey of the Australian coast.
BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 2019
We provide a general compilation of the diversity and geographical distribution of Amazonian fishes, updated to the end of 2018. Our database includes documented distributions of 4214 species (both Amazonian and from surrounding basins), compiled from published information plus original data from ichthyological collections. Our results show that the Amazon basin comprises the most diverse regional assemblage of freshwater fishes in the world, with 2716 valid species (1696 of which are endemic) representing 529 genera, 60 families, and 18 orders. These data permit a view of the diversity and distribution of Amazonian fishes on a basinwide scale, which in turn allows the identification of congruent biogeographical patterns, here defined as the overlapping distributions of two or more lineages (species or monophyletic groups). We recognize 20 distinct distributional patterns of Amazonian fishes, which are herein individually delimited, named, and diagnosed. Not all these patterns are associated with identifiable geographical barriers, and some may result from ecological constraints. All the major Amazonian subdrainages fit into more than one biogeographical pattern. This fact reveals the complex history of hydrographical basins and shows that modern basin-defined units contribute relatively little as explanatory factors for the present distributions of Amazonian fishes. An understanding of geomorphological processes and associated paleographic landscape changes provides a far better background for interpreting observed patterns. Our results are expected to provide a framework for future studies on the diversification and historical biogeography of the Amazonian aquatic biota.
Check list of the freshwater fishes of South and …, 2003
Mammal Review, 1997
The Globe, 2016
Sealing has been an industry in the North Atlantic and Arctic seas since at least 1593. Initially the profits from sealing were far less than those gained from whaling, and the sealing industry remained a minor, if locally important, activity for many communities. Sealing became better established as a global industry from the late 18th century onwards as it expanded into the South Atlantic and the Southern Ocean, and the paper focuses on the relationship between explorers' reports of new discoveries and the role of sealers in the official and unofficial charting of the islands of the southern oceans and in the independent search for new sealing grounds.
Geographical Review, 2012
This study presents a range of research into interethnic and power relations in the upper Madeira area in the southwest Amazon over the course of the 19th century. After providing a preliminary evaluation of the impact of both international treaties and internal political changes at the end of the 18th century, I proceed with my main purpose: to point out changes and continuities in the dynamics of interethnic relations and highlight their subjection to shifts in the power balance between private and public " agencies. " At the same time, I propose a deeper analysis of the role of intermediaries, who emerged as key actors in the development of these relations and were often prescribed by socio-political alliances and also undoubtedly by economic ones. My ultimate objective is to provide not only voice but agency to these intermediaries, who expressed the relationships between external and (multiple) internal frontiers.
Tropical forests of the Guiana shield: ancient …, 2005
International Journal of Health Geographics, 2008
International Journal of Remote Sensing, 2012
… integrated surface and …, 2009
Biodiversity and Conservation, 1995
Remote Sensing of Inland, Coastal, and Oceanic Waters, 2008
History in Africa, 2019
Climate and Land Use Alliance, 2018
THE CULTURAL SPHERES VOL1.pdf, 2019
Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 2010
Journal of Geophysical Research, 2002
Environmental Conservation, 2001
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2015