期刊名称:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
印刷版ISSN:0027-8424
电子版ISSN:1091-6490
出版年度:2020
卷号:117
期号:40
页码:24609-24611
DOI:10.1073/pnas.2018489117
出版社:The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
摘要:Edilson Consuelo de Oliveira has regained his sense of taste and smell, so he has finally been able to enjoy a plate of pirapitinga, his favorite fish in all the Amazon. Before contracting coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), Edilson had been in lockdown on a small farm outside of Rio Branco, the capital of Acre state in Brazil, but in early June a nephew came to visit from the city, bringing a dry cough. Edilson was hospitalized for only two days and felt ill for two weeks; since then he has been recovering back on the farm. It’s lucky for him and for the Amazon, because Edilson is a “super-mateiro,” or master woodsman, one of a handful in that vast region (see Fig. 1). Edilson is something of a taxonomic shaman, as he can name hundreds of species of Amazonian trees on sight and is familiar with several thousand more.