Abstract French Guiana is a European ultraperipheric region located on the northern Atlantic
coast of South America. It constitutes an important forested region for biological conservation …

Designed to help students understand the multiple levels at which human populations
respond to their surroundings, this essential text offers the most complete discussion of …

The Amazonian savannas of French Guiana are rare and of high ecological and cultural
value but are also highly threatened. They are socioecological systems that have been …

Abstract The Guiana Shield (GS) is one of the most pristine regions of Amazonia and
biologically one of the richest areas on Earth. How and when this massive diversity arose …

Map** forest aboveground biomass (AGB) has become an important task, particularly for
the reporting of carbon stocks and changes. AGB can be mapped using synthetic aperture …

Among the hypotheses formulated to explain the origin of Amazonian biodiversity, two (the
riverine-barrier and the river-refuge hypotheses) focus on the role that rivers play as biotic …

Geomorphic landscape features have been suggested as indicators of forest diversity.
However, their explanatory power has not yet been explicitly tested at a regional scale in …

Introduction In addition to the commonly accepted importance of the vampire bat in the
maintenance and transmission of the rabies virus (RABV) in South America, RABV infection …

Estimating forest canopy height from large-footprint satellite LiDAR waveforms is
challenging given the complex interaction between LiDAR waveforms, terrain, and …

The loss of tropical forests represents a major threat to biodiversity. With accelerating
deforestation in large parts of the Amazon, the Guiana Shield region, with its large expanse …