Amazon Jungle: Green Hell to Red Desert? : an Ecological Discussion of the Environmental Impact of the Highway Construction Program in the Amazon BasinElsevier Scientific Pub., 1975 - 161 sider Monograph presenting an environmental assessment of the implications of road construction for the ecosystem of the amazon river basin in Brazil - includes maps, references and statistical tables. |
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PREFACE by Professor Dr H Sioli | 1 |
HISTORY OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF AMAZONIA | 14 |
Chronology of events concerning Amazonia | 20 |
The lowland tropical wet forest ecosystem | 28 |
Alternatives to present trends | 36 |
HUMAN ECOLOGY AND NOSOGEOGRAPHY | 48 |
AMERINDIANS | 56 |
Amerindians affected by the highways | 72 |
FAUNA AND FAUNATION | 78 |
Undiscovered species | 106 |
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 123 |
INDEX | 142 |
FLORA AND VEGETATION after G T Prance | 147 |
THE AUTHORS | 155 |
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