Everything about Amazon (company)

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Amazon (company)A 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Critical transitions in the Amazon forest systemInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: HerlandThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Running experiments on Amazon Mechanical TurkCited 3,268 times
5. Go sideways: Amazon Web ServicesA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Andy JassyA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Running experiments on Amazon Mechanical Turk

  Gabriele Paolacci, Jesse Chandler, Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis · 2010 · Judgment and Decision Making · 3,268 citations

• Nutrient availability and leaching in an archaeological Anthrosol and a Ferralsol of the Central Amazon basin: fertilizer, manure and charcoal amendments

  Johannes Lehmann, Jose Pereira da Silva, Christoph Steiner · 2003 · Plant and Soil · 1,535 citations

• Drought Sensitivity of the Amazon Rainforest

  Oliver L. Phillips, Luiz E. O. C. Aragão, Simon L. Lewis · 2009 · Science · 1,515 citations

• Climate Change, Deforestation, and the Fate of the Amazon

  Yadvinder Malhi, J. Timmons Roberts, Richard A. Betts · 2008 · Science · 1,493 citations

• Balancing hydropower and biodiversity in the Amazon, Congo, and Mekong

  K. O. Winemiller, P. B. McIntyre, L. Castello · 2016 · Science · 1,372 citations

• Reputation as a sufficient condition for data quality on Amazon Mechanical Turk

  Eyal Peer, Joachim Vosgerau, Alessandro Acquisti · 2013 · Behavior Research Methods · 1,345 citations

• Smoking Rain Clouds over the Amazon

  M. O. Andreae, D. Rosenfeld, P. Artaxo · 2004 · Science · 1,269 citations

• Geochemistry of the Amazon: 2. The influence of geology and weathering environment on the dissolved load

  R. F. Stallard, J. M. Edmond · 1983 · Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans · 1,154 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Critical transitions in the Amazon forest system

  Bernardo M. Flores, Encarni Montoya, Boris Sakschewski · 2024 · Nature · 606 citations

• The drivers and impacts of Amazon forest degradation

  David M. Lapola, Patricia Pinho, Jos Barlow · 2023 · Science · 582 citations

• Pronounced loss of Amazon rainforest resilience since the early 2000s

  Chris A. Boulton, Timothy M. Lenton, Niklas Boers · 2022 · Nature Climate Change · 564 citations

• Human impacts outpace natural processes in the Amazon

  James S. Albert, Ana C. Carnaval, Suzette G. A. Flantua · 2023 · Science · 215 citations

• The new record of drought and warmth in the Amazon in 2023 related to regional and global climatic features

  Jhan-Carlo Espinoza, Juan Carlos Jimenez, José Antonio Marengo · 2024 · Scientific Reports · 208 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• HerlandCharlotte Perkins Gilman · 1915
• Swallows and AmazonsArthur Michell Ransome · 1930
• La ciudad de las bestiasIsabel Allende · 2002
• A mission to Gelele, King of DahomeRichard Francis Burton, C. W. Newbury · 1864
• The naturalist on the River AmazonsHenry Walter Bates · 1863
• Afternoon on the AmazonMary Pope Osborne · 1995
• The Lost City of ZDavid Grann, James Gray · 2000
• Winter holidayArthur Michell Ransome · 1933

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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