Bolivia

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • Antifolate resistance due to new and known Plasmodium falciparum dihydrofolate reductase mutations expressed in yeast. 
  • Birth seasons and heights among girls and boys below 12 years of age: lasting effects and catch-up growth among native Amazonians in Bolivia. 
  • Child stunting is associated with weaker human capital among native Amazonians. 
  • High resting metabolic rate among Amazonian forager-horticulturalists experiencing high pathogen burden. 
  • International surgery and the University of Connecticut experience: lessons from a short-term surgical mission. 
  • Mutations in Plasmodium falciparum dihydrofolate reductase and dihydropteroate synthase and epidemiologic patterns of pyrimethamine-sulfadoxine use and resistance. 
  • Natural sleep and its seasonal variations in three pre-industrial societies. 
  • Oil and gas projects in the Western Amazon: threats to wilderness, biodiversity, and indigenous peoples. 
  • Plant and animal endemism in the eastern Andean slope: challenges to conservation. 
  • Residential metal contamination and potential health risks of exposure in adobe brick houses in Potosí, Bolivia. 
  • Single origin and subsequent diversification of central Andean endemic Umbilicaria species. 
  • The history of South American tropical precipitation for the past 25,000 years. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Pimm, Stuart L., Doris Duke Professor of Conservation Ecology in the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke Science & Society