Acta Amazonica 48(2) - Summary
   
Issues: 48-2 Agronomy and Forestry
Title: Allometric equations for total, above - and below - ground biomass and carbon of the Amazonian forest type known as campinarana  
Authors: Cecilia P.I.B. WOORTMANN, Niro HIGUCHI, Joaquim dos SANTOS, Roseana P. da SILVA  
Keywords: modelling; forests on sand; climate change PDF
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1809-4392201700673

   
Issues: 48-2 Agronomy and Forestry
Title: Genetic diversity among accessions of sacha inchi (Plukenetia volubilis) by phenotypic characteristics analysis  
Authors: Haroldo Silva RODRIGUES, Aluízio BORÉM, Mágno Sávio Ferreira VALENTE, Maria Teresa Gomes LOPES, Cosme Damião CRUZ, Francisco Célio Maia CHAVES, Caroline de Souza BEZERRA  
Keywords: Euphorbiaceae, biometrics, Amazon region, genetic resources PDF
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1809-4392201702591

   
Issues: 48-2 Animal and Fisheries Sciences
Title: Development of a quality index scheme and shelf-life study for whole tambaqui (Colossoma macropomum)  
Authors: Márcio Luís Bernardo Pontes da SILVA, Jane Mello LOPES, Sidely Gil Araújo VIEIRA, Thaís Danyelle Santos ARAUJO, Rodrigo Maciel CALVET, Alitiene Moura Lemos PEREIRA, Fabiola Helena dos Santos FOGAÇA  
Keywords: food quality, storage time, spoilage, sensory parameters PDF
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1809-4392201703441

   
Issues: 48-2 Biodiversity and Conservation
Title: Survey of social wasps (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Polistinae) in Amazon rainforest fragments in Acre, Brazil  
Authors: Bruno GOMES, Samilla Vanessa de Lima KNIDEL, Heroílson da Silva MORAES, Marjorie da SILVA  
Keywords: distribution records, Neotropical Region, swarm-founding wasps, Western Amazon PDF
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1809-4392201700913

   
Issues: 48-2 Biodiversity and Conservation
Title: Diversity patterns of hawkmoths (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) in the canopy of an ombrophilous forest in the central Amazon, Brazil  
Authors: Gilcélia Melo LOURIDO, Catarina da Silva MOTTA, Márlon Breno GRAÇA, José Albertino RAFAEL  
Keywords: Amazon rainforest, flight activity, forest canopy, species composition, species richness PDF
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1809-4392201704721

   
Issues: 48-2 Biodiversity and Conservation
Title: Insects of forensic importance associated to cadaveric decomposition in a rural area of the Andean Amazon, Caquetá, Colombia  
Authors: Yardany RAMOS-PASTRANA, Yenny VIRGÜEZ-DÍAZ, Marta WOLFF  
Keywords: cadaveric decomposition, carrion, forensic entomology, Colombian Amazon PDF
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1809-4392201701033

   
Issues: 48-2 Biodiversity and Conservation
Title: Ecological studies of mayflies (Insecta, Ephemeroptera): Can sampling effort be reduced without losing essential taxonomic and ecological information?  
Authors: Yulie SHIMANO, Mylena CARDOSO, Leandro JUEN  
Keywords: congruence, environmental monitoring, functional feeding group, taxonomic resolution PDF
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1809-4392201700583

   
Issues: 48-2 Biodiversity and Conservation
Title: Biting the hand that feeds you: wedge-billed hummingbird is a nectar robber of a sicklebill - adapted Andean bellflower  
Authors: Mannfred M.A. BOEHM  
Keywords: nectar robbing, bird pollination, neotropical bellflowers, Schistes geoffroyi, co-evolution PDF
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1809-4392201703932

   
Issues: 48-2 Biodiversity and Conservation
Title: Death-feigning behaviour in Iphisa elegans: the second reported case in the Family Gymnophthalmidae (Reptilia: Squamata)  
Authors: Paulo Roberto MACHADO-FILHO, Guilherme Marson MOYA, Fábio MAFFEI  
Keywords: reptiles, Ethology, antipredator display, lizard, thanatosis PDF
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1809-4392201704021

   
Issues: 48-2 Biodiversity and Conservation
Title: Filling gaps in the distribution of the white-winged vampire bat, Diaemus youngii (Phyllostomidae, Desmodontinae): new records for southern Amazonia  
Authors: Mônica A. PEDROSO, Patrício A. da ROCHA, Marcus V. BRANDÃO, Guilherme S. T. GARBINO; Carolina O. de MORAES, Caroline C. AIRES  
Keywords: rainforest, hematophagous bat, Mato Grosso, Rondônia, Tocantins PDF
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1809-4392201704291

   
Issues: 48-2 Chemistry and Pharmacology
Title: Antioxidant activity and physicochemical characteristics of honeys from the eastern Amazon region, Brazil  
Authors: Adelene Menezes Portela BANDEIRA, Victor Valentim GOMES, Arthur Abinader VASCONCELOS, Paulo Sérgio TAUBE, Emerson Cristi de BARROS, Samuel Carvalho COSTA, Alan Kelbis Oliveira LIMA, Aline Augusti BOLIGON, Emily Pansera WACZUK, João Batista Teixeira ROCHA  
Keywords: Apis mellifera, quercetin, DPPH radical, flavonoids PDF
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1809-4392201702721

   
Issues: 48-2 Geosciences
Title: Agricultural land use and cover change in the Cerrado/ Amazon ecotone: A case study of the upper Teles Pires River basin  
Authors: Ana Paula Sousa Rodrigues ZAIATZ, Cornélio Alberto ZOLIN, Laurimar Goncalves VENDRUSCULO, Tarcio Rocha LOPES, Janaina PAULINO  
Keywords: Amazon Basin, remote sensing, GIS, territorial management PDF
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1809-4392201701930