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Amazon rain forests

Amazon rain forests 504 Nature Vol. 264 December 9 1976 correspondence 1937 the book was given to the So the luxuriant regrowth which Lavoisier's originality soon refills a jungle clearing is actually Academie des Sciences. StR,-Antoine Laurent Lavoisier is for a time a source of oxygen . What Lavoisier, therefore, must have been generally credited with the independent are altered by large scale clearance are familiar with Mayow's work when in discovery of oxygen and its role in the structure and species-composition 1777 he presented his memoires on combustion and respiration. But the oxygen and respiration• to the of the forest, and unnaturally extensive existence of his personal copy of the clearance by modern man could pro­ Academie des Sciences, although in complete works of John Mayow' 7 1776 a letter from M Magalhaes to gressively deplete the forest of its suggests that his ideas were not as Lavoisier suggests that Lavoisier was diversity and lead to reduction in original as he claimed. Lavoisier's early only then looking for Mayow's works. numbers or even extinction of some detractors seem to have been justified His subsequent protestation of ignor­ plants or animals. There is also the even when they accused him of a http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Nature Springer Journals

Amazon rain forests

WHITMORE, T. C.
Nature , Volume 264 (5586) – Dec 9, 1976
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Amazon rain forests

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504 Nature Vol. 264 December 9 1976 correspondence 1937 the book was given to the So the luxuriant regrowth which Lavoisier's originality soon refills a jungle clearing is actually Academie des Sciences. StR,-Antoine Laurent Lavoisier is for a time a source of oxygen . What Lavoisier, therefore, must have been generally credited with the independent are altered by large scale clearance are familiar with Mayow's work when in discovery of oxygen and its role in the structure and...
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Springer Journals
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Copyright © 1976 by Nature Publishing Group
Subject
Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary; Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary; Science, multidisciplinary
ISSN
0028-0836
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1476-4687
DOI
10.1038/264504b0
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504 Nature Vol. 264 December 9 1976 correspondence 1937 the book was given to the So the luxuriant regrowth which Lavoisier's originality soon refills a jungle clearing is actually Academie des Sciences. StR,-Antoine Laurent Lavoisier is for a time a source of oxygen . What Lavoisier, therefore, must have been generally credited with the independent are altered by large scale clearance are familiar with Mayow's work when in discovery of oxygen and its role in the structure and species-composition 1777 he presented his memoires on combustion and respiration. But the oxygen and respiration• to the of the forest, and unnaturally extensive existence of his personal copy of the clearance by modern man could pro­ Academie des Sciences, although in complete works of John Mayow' 7 1776 a letter from M Magalhaes to gressively deplete the forest of its suggests that his ideas were not as Lavoisier suggests that Lavoisier was diversity and lead to reduction in original as he claimed. Lavoisier's early only then looking for Mayow's works. numbers or even extinction of some detractors seem to have been justified His subsequent protestation of ignor­ plants or animals. There is also the even when they accused him of a

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Published: Dec 9, 1976

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