Museu Goeldi: 150 anos de ciência na Amazônia

Abstract

This book brings a selection of the works that were originally presented at the III Symposium on Amazon Biota, as well as some other texts by people who were specially invited to contribute to this collection. the articles demonstrate that there has been considerable advance in the knowledge of biodiversity over the last 150 years, but they also show that the Amazon has been suffering from a intense process of transformation in its various aspects, indicating how the anthropism influenced the response of plants and animals to environmental changes. You texts now published also bring reflections on the changes that have occurred in the last 50 years with regard to Amazonian populations, issues involving indigenous peoples and other traditional peoples, their cultures and their territories, with emphasis on the processes of constitution of traditional territories in the Amazon and in the role of these territories with regard to the protection and conservation of ecosystems.