Amazon rainforest

  1. Murui-Muina use language differences to mark subgroup identity
    Ethnographic study of how Murui-Muina speakers in the Colombian Amazon use lexical contrasts to sustain four ethnolinguistic subgroups, challenging conventional definitions of language.
  2. Extreme 2023 drought turned the Amazon into a weak carbon source
    2023 Amazon drought reduced vegetation carbon uptake, turning the region into a weak carbon source independent of fire emissions, revealing climate vulnerability.
  3. Framework estimates fish-kill mortality and TDG from dissolved oxygen
    Framework for quantifying fish kills from gas supersaturation at dams using dissolved oxygen data and Bayesian mortality modeling in Amazonian hydroelectric systems.