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Use and Management of Piquiá Suggest in situ Domestication along the Lower Tapajós River, Brazilian Amazonia1

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Acknowledgments

We thank the residents of the Maguarí and Jamaraquá villages for their support, especially those who participated directly in the research; the Cooperativa Mista da FLONA do Tapajós (COOMFLONA), staff of ICMBio, INPA Santarém, and UFOPA for field support; RPA thanks INPA PCI/MCTI for a research fellowship; CL thanks CNPq for a doctoral scholarship. Funding was provided by CNPq Universal proc. no. 458210/2014-5, coordinated by CRC.

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  1. Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil

    Rubana P. Alves & Charles R. Clement

  2. INPA, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil

    Carolina Levis

  3. Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

    Carolina Levis

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1Received 5 October 2015; accepted 12 February 2016.

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Alves, R.P., Levis, C. & Clement, C.R. Use and Management of Piquiá Suggest in situ Domestication along the Lower Tapajós River, Brazilian Amazonia1 . Econ Bot 70, 198–202 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12231-016-9340-4

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