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This chapter gives an overview of key areas of past achievements, identifies hiatuses, and points towards future frontiers of knowledge to be expanded in search of ecologically sustainable management of Amazonia.
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Artaxo, P., Forsberg, B.R., Nagy, L. (2016). Amazonia in Perspective as a Changing Environment. In: Nagy, L., Forsberg, B., Artaxo, P. (eds) Interactions Between Biosphere, Atmosphere and Human Land Use in the Amazon Basin. Ecological Studies, vol 227. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-49902-3_19
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