In Peru, a 20-year study charted Amazon forests —and revealed how warming has changed them
Pillcopata, Peru—
Twenty years ago, a dozen Peruvian biology undergraduates armed with machetes and tape measures laboriously cleared a trail down the steep eastern flank of the Andes Mountains near this sleepy Amazonian town. They staked out eight study plots along a 15-kilometer-long transect that stretched from the grasslands found near the relatively cool, treeless top of a 4020-meter-high mountain known as Apu Kañajhuay down the fog-shrouded Kosñipata Valley to the warmer forests below, which are soaked by as much as 5 meters of rain a year. Along the transect lies some of the world’s richest biodiversity.
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Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - November 2, 2023 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Risk of Non-melanoma Skin Cancer in Kidney Transplantation Recipient: An Evidence-based Case Report
CONCLUSION: Combination of age, environmental factors, sun exposure-related skin lesion, and immunosuppressant therapy are the main prognostic factors of NMSC on RTRs.PMID:37915154 (Source: Acta medica Indonesiana)
Source: Acta medica Indonesiana - November 2, 2023 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Riva Ambardina Pradita Ayutika Saraswati Adisasmito Wresti Indriatmi Source Type: research
