Natural selection and adaptive traits in the Maniq, a nomadic hunter-gatherer society from Mainland Southeast Asia by Tobias Herzog, Maximilian Larena, Wibhu Kutanan, Helmut Lukas, Martin Fieder, Helmut Schaschl

“…This study investigates the evolutionary pressures shaping the genome of the Maniq population, a nomadic hunter-gatherer group inhabiting the rainforests of southern Thailand. Using genome-wide approaches, including iHS, xp-EHH, PBE, and beta statistics, we identified signatures of positive and balancing selection. …”
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CO2lonialismo y geografías de esperanza by Julianne Hazlewood

“…Expounding on the ecological debt of the Global North to the Global South, this paper condemns discourses and actions that solely focus on improving the economic climate while bulldozing rainforests, livelihoods, and real solutions to climate change.…”
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Eco-anthropologie et primatologie pour la conservation de la biodiversité : un projet collaboratif dans le Parc National de Moukalaba-Doudou, Gabon by Naoki Matsuura, Yuji Takenoshita, Juichi Yamagiwa

“…African tropical rainforests are decreasing rapidly because of the expansion of agricultural lands and commercial logging. …”
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Homo erectus adapted to steppe-desert climate extremes one million years ago by Julio Mercader, Pamela Akuku, Nicole Boivin, Alfredo Camacho, Tristan Carter, Siobhán Clarke, Arturo Cueva Temprana, Julien Favreau, Jennifer Galloway, Raquel Hernando, Haiping Huang, Stephen Hubbard, Jed O. Kaplan, Steve Larter, Stephen Magohe, Abdallah Mohamed, Aloyce Mwambwiga, Ayoola Oladele, Michael Petraglia, Patrick Roberts, Palmira Saladié, Abel Shikoni, Renzo Silva, María Soto, Dominica Stricklin, Degsew Z. Mekonnen, Wenran Zhao, Paul Durkin

“…Abstract Questions about when early members of the genus Homo adapted to extreme environments like deserts and rainforests have traditionally focused on Homo sapiens. …”
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A revised classification of Dryopteridaceae based on plastome phylogenomics and morphological evidence, with the description of a new genus, Pseudarachniodes by Zheng-Yu Zuo, Germinal Rouhan, Shi-Yong Dong, Hong-Mei Liu, Xin-Yu Du, Li-Bing Zhang, Jin-Mei Lu

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Subgenome asymmetry of gibberellins-related genes plays important roles in regulating rapid growth of bamboos by Ling Mao, Cen Guo, Liang-Zhong Niu, Yu-Jiao Wang, Guihua Jin, Yi-Zhou Yang, Ke-Cheng Qian, Yang Yang, Xuemei Zhang, Peng-Fei Ma, De-Zhu Li, Zhen-Hua Guo

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Contrasting spatial variations between above and below-ground net primary productivity in global grasslands by Ying Hu, Yue Yang, Yu Wei, Xiaozhen Li, Yue Jiao, Jiapei Liao, Ruiyu Fu, Lichong Dai, Zhongmin Hu

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Global climate changes and the evolution of area suitability for marmosets of genus Callithrix by Cesar Rogerio Leal do Amaral, Antonio Carlos de Freitas, Rodrigo Goldenberg-Barbosa, Anna Luiza dos Santos Donato, Izar Aximoff, Victor Cordeiro de Moura, Dafne Adriana Abreu dos Anjos

“…The study used the present-day distribution of the Atlantic Rainforest marmosets of the genus Callithrix and several bioclimatic layers to model and project the habitat suitability for all Callithrix species for recent and for the next few decades. …”
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Effects of Habitat Change on the Web Characteristics and Fitness of the Giant Wood Spider (Nephila pilipes) in Sri Lanka by Tharaka Wijerathna, Dilini Tharanga, Inoka C. Perera, Mayuri R. Wijesinghe

“…We compare web properties and fitness of the Giant wood spider Nephila pilpes within and outside its natural rainforest habitat in Sri Lanka. The nonforest habitats comprised rural home gardens and plantations. …”
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Aminopropyl-Functionalized Silica CO2 Adsorbents via Sonochemical Methods by Gregory P. Knowles, Alan L. Chaffee

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Colony Composition of Two Malaysian Ponerine Ants, Platythyrea Tricuspidata and P. Quadridenta: Sexual Reproduction by Workers and Production of Queens (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) by Fuminori Ito

“…Colonies of ponerine ants Platythyrea quadridenta and P. tricuspidata were collected in the rainforest of West Malaysia. Two colonies of P. tricuspidata were composed only of workers, and three and eight workers were inseminated per colony, respectively. …”
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État nutritionnel et environnement pathogène d’enfants d’une population forestière du Sud-Cameroun by Olivier Bernard, Hélène Pagezy, Daniel Bley

“…This study concerns the relationship between splenomegaly as an indicator of a chronic context of parasitic load and the growth in height or weight of preschool children from rainforest Southern Cameroon. The anthropometric study shows that 31,6% of the 0-6 years old children are stunded and 3,6% wasted. …”
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Ethnoecology and ethnomedicinal use of fish among the Bakwele of southeastern Cameroon by Takanori Oishi

“…Because of the current bushmeat trade crisis, the aquatic resources in the Congo Basin rainforest are increasingly viewed has promising alternate resources and have recently drawn the attention of conservation and development agencies. …”
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Taxonomic study of Oxalis section Thamnoxys (Oxalidaceae) in Brazil by Maria Carolina de Abreu, Ykaro Richard Oliveira, Juliana Silva dos Santos, Reginaldo Carvalho, Marcos José da Silva, Margareth Ferreira de Sales

“…These species are mostly distributed in rainforest and seasonal semi-deciduous forest.…”
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“Invisible” and “unheard” children in fragile contexts – reflections from field research among the Ba’Aka in the Central African Republic by Urszula Markowska-Manista

“…In the present article I outline the situation of children who belong to an indigenous community of Ba’Aka Pygmies, a group inhabiting the Sangha-Mbaéré region of rainforest in the Central African Republic. These children are inscribed in the categories of “invisible” and “unheard” children. …”
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Deux programmes d’éducation environnementale pour la conservation des grands singes africains: Club Ebobo et Club P.A.N. by Claudia Borchers, Julia Riedel, Christophe Boesch, Thomas Breuer

“…In this article we will present two long term environmental education projects which aim to raise awareness about the protection of great apes and their tropical rainforest habitat. Club Ebobo is based around the Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park, Republic of Congo and Club P.A.N. around the Taï National Park, Ivory Coast. …”
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Pollen Sources for Melipona capixaba Moure & Camargo: An Endangered Brazilian Stingless Bee by Cynthia Fernandes Pinto da Luz, Tânia Maria Fernandes-Salomão, Lorena Gusmão Alvarenga Lage, Helder Canto Resende, Mara Garcia Tavares, Lucio Antonio de Oliveira Campos

“…Although the majority of the pollen types showed low percentage values, the results demonstrated that M. capixaba has taken advantage of the polliniferous sources available in the Atlantic Rainforest as well as in the “Capoeira” (brushwood, secondary forest) and “ruderal” (field) plants, probably implying its importance as a pollinator of the native flora and of the exotic species.…”
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Preserving Darwin’s fox: genomic tools for the conservation of South America’s most endangered canid by Cristóbal Valenzuela-Turner, José Horacio Grau, Jörns Fickel, Jörns Fickel, Daniel W. Förster

“…Darwin’s fox (Lycalopex fulvipes), endemic to Chile’s Valdivian Temperate Rainforest, is the most endangered canid in South America with a small and declining population estimated at less than 1000 mature individuals. …”
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Projections of future distribution for the Golden Parakeet (Guaruba guarouba) indicate increased extinction risk for an Amazonian flagship species by Kauê Felippe de Moraes, Marcela Guimarães Moreira Lima, Gabriela Ribeiro Gonçalves, Larissa Hasnah Queiroz dos Santos, Marcos Pérsio Dantas Santos

“…In this context, we estimated the potential distribution of Guaruba guarouba, a Psittacine species endemic to the Amazon rainforest, to assess the effects of climate change and deforestation in a current and future scenario, as well as evaluate the representativeness of this species in the current system of protected areas in the Amazon. …”
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Estimation of Total Yearly CO2 Emissions by Wildfires in Mexico during the Period 1999–2010 by Flor Bautista Vicente, Noel Carbajal, Luis Felipe Pineda Martínez

“…The most affected vegetation types were forest and rainforest.…”
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