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.
