Chemistry of the Amazon. Biodiversity, Natural Products, and Environmental Issues

Content: Amazon biodiversity: a renewable natural resource? / Peter Rudolf Seidl --
Natural products as medicinal and biological agents : potentiating the resources of the rain forest / Geoffrey A. Cordell --
Economic plants of the Amazon : their industrial development in defense of the forest / Benjamin Gilbert --
Agroforestry strategies for alleviating soil chemical constraints to food and fiber production in the Brazilian Amazon / Erick C.M. Fernandes and João Carlos de Souza Matos --
Secondary compound accumulation in plants-the application of plant biotechnology to plant improvement : a proposed strategy for natural-product research in Brazil / Marcia Pletsch, Antônio Euzébio G. Sant'Ana, and Barry Victor Charlwood --
The promise of plant-derived natural products for the development of new pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals / James D. McChesney --
Poisons and anti-poisons from the Amazon forest / Walter B. Mors --
Biologically active neolignans from Amazonian trees / Massayoshi Yoshida --
Proteins from Amazonia : studies and perspectives for their research / Lauro Morhy --
Terpenoids from Amazonian Icacinaceae / Alaide Braga de Oliveira --
Chemical studies of Myristicaceae species of the Colombian Amazon / Juan C. Martinez V. and Luis E. Cuca S. --
Plant chemistry of Amazonia in an ecological context / Klaus Kubitzki --
Lignans : diversity, biosynthesis, and function / Norman G. Lewis, Massuo J. Kato, Norberto Lopes, and Laurence B. Davin --
The chemistry of Amazonian Myristicaceae : developmental, ecological, and pharmacological aspects / Massuo J. Kato --
Amazonia versus Australia : geographically distant, chemically close / Maria Auxiliadora Coelho Kaplan --
Chemodiversity of angiosperms : latitude- and herbaceousness-conditioned gradients / Maria Renata de M.B. Borin and Otto R. Gottlieb --
Future-oriented mapping of biodiversity in Amazonia / Otto R. Gottlieb --
Advances in Amazonian biogeochemistry / K.O. Konhauser, W.S. Fyfe, W. Zang, M.I. Bird, and B.I. Kronberg --
The chemistry of headwater streams in the Rio das Mortes system and its effect on the structure of the biotic community / Charles W. Heckman --
The chemistry of atmospheric aerosol particles in the Amazon Basin / Paulo Artaxo, Fábio Gerab, Márcia A. Yamasoe, and José V. Martins --
The "Garimpo" problem in the Amazon region / Alexandre Pessoa, Gildo Sá Albuquerque, and Maria Laura Barreto --
Mineral extraction in the Amazon and the environment : the mercury problem / Roberto C. Villas Bôas.