Purus River


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Noun1.Purus River - a Brazilian river; tributary of the Amazon River
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Brasil, Brazil, Federative Republic of Brazil - the largest Latin American country and the largest Portuguese speaking country in the world; located in the central and northeastern part of South America; world's leading coffee exporter
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The main objective of this study was to study the diversity (species richness) and the relative abundance of bats from the Rio La Novia Conservation Concession (RLN), located on the right margin of the Purus River (Ucayali, Peru), to compare it with other regions in the Peruvian Amazonia, and to support the efforts on the conservation and the sustainable use of biodiversity in this area.
Diversidad de murcielagos de la Concesion para Conservacion Rio La Novia, Ucayali, Peru
The study was conducted in the municipality of Canutama located 55 m above sea level in the Purus river, one of the largest rivers in the world.
Cross-Sectional Serological Survey of Human Fascioliasis in Canutama Municipality in Western Amazon, Brazil
The basin of the Purus river in southwestern Amazonia is a white water system, with a total area of approximately 376,000 [km.sup.2] (Ana, 2016).
Trophic structure of fish assemblages associated with macrophytes in lakes of an abandoned meander on the middle river Purus, Brazilian Amazon/Estrutura trofica das assembleias de peixes associadas as macrofitas aquaticas em lagos de meandro abandonado no medio rio Purus, Amazonia brasileira
The five water basins included in the study are located in the same geological formation, the Solimoes Formation, but one of them drains into the Purus River while the other four drain into the Madeira River.
Effects of isolation and environmental variables on fish community structure in the Brazilian Amazon Madeira-Purus interfluve/Efeito do isolamento e das variaveis ambientais na estrutura de comunidades de peixes do interfluvio Madeira-Purus na Amazonia brasileira

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