TY - BOOK TI - Amarakaeri: Connecting Biodiversity | Conectando la Biodiversidad T2 - Open Monographs SN - /doi.org/10.5479/si.16847062 PY - 2021/// CY - Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2021-11-15 KW - Biodiversity KW - bicssc KW - Amarakaeri Communal Reserve KW - biodiversity KW - conservation KW - Ecological Impacts KW - environmental management KW - Madre de Dios KW - peru N1 - Open Access N2 - Highlighting the enormous biodiversity of the Amarakaeri Communal Reserve (ACR) and the critical role this protected area plays in the conservation of Madre de Dios, in southeastern Peru, with more than 1,700 vivid photographs, Amarakaeri: Connecting Biodiversity offers readers a glimpse into the extensive research conducted by scholars from the Smithsonian National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute and their Peruvian counterparts. For three years, scientists and local experts had the extraordinary opportunity to collect data at the premontane forests of the ACR to determine potential impacts of an exploratory gas platform on selected animal and plant groups. Amarakaeri also portrays the main threats to the ACR and presents a vision for the region's future UR - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/80781 UR - https://doi.org/10.5479/si.16847062 ER -