The Amazon biome (Portuguese: Bioma Amazônia) contains the Amazon rainforest, an area of tropical rainforest, and other ecoregions that cover most of...
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Amazon rainforest, also called Amazon jungle or Amazonia, is a moist broadleaf tropical rainforest in the Amazon biome that covers most of the Amazon...
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portal Amazon biome Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization Amazon Conservation Association Amazon Conservation Team Deforestation of the Amazon rainforest...
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within the Amazon biome. †Value calculated from estimated forest loss, not directly known. Deforestation and biodiversity loss in the Amazon rainforest...
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only 87% of the Amazon's original size. According to official data, about 729,000 km² have already been deforested in the Amazon biome, which corresponds...
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The 2019 Amazon rainforest wildfires season saw a year-to-year surge in fires occurring in the Amazon rainforest and Amazon biome within Brazil, Bolivia...
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Amazônia Legal (redirect from Legal amazon)
region overlaps three different biomes: all of Brazil's Amazon biome, 37% of the Cerrado biome, and 40% of the Pantanal biome. The main characteristic of...
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extends south to the Putumayo and Amazon Rivers. The Amazon region is divided up into distinct subregions: Amazon foothills: bordering the East Andes...
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The Amazon rubber cycle or boom (Portuguese: Ciclo da borracha, Brazilian Portuguese: [ˈsiklu da buˈʁaʃɐ]; Spanish: Fiebre del caucho, pronounced [ˈfjeβɾe...
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The Southwest Amazon moist forests (NT0166) is an ecoregion located in the Upper Amazon basin. The forest is characterized by a relatively flat landscape...
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Forest islands (category Amazon biome)
defended. Darrell Posey, among the Gorotire Kayaps Indians of the Brazilian Amazon, described wilful, astute engineering of the forest. Defecations along circulation...
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Embrapa Cocais, São Luís, MA. Embrapa Eastern Amazon, Belém, PA. Eastern portion of the Amazon Biome. Embrapa Mid-North, Teresina, PI. Embrapa Pantanal...
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Várzea forest (category Amazon rainforest)
floodplain forest inundated by whitewater rivers that occurs in the Amazon biome. Until the late 1970s, the definition was less clear and várzea was often...
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The Amazon rainforest is a species-rich biome in which thousands of species live, including animals found nowhere else in the world. To date, there is...
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Ainbo: Spirit of the Amazon (Spanish: Ainbo: El espíritu del Amazonas; stylized as AINBO: Spirit of the Amazon), also known as simply Ainbo, is a 2021...
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Madeira–Tapajós moist forests (category Amazon biome)
(NT0135) is an ecoregion in the Amazon basin. It is part of the Amazon biome. The ecoregion extends southwest from the Amazon River between its large Madeira...
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Japurá–Solimões–Negro moist forests (category Amazon biome)
(NT0132) is an ecoregion of tropical moist broad leaf forest in the Amazon biome. The Japurá–Solimoes–Negro moist forests ecoregion is named for the Japurá...
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Peruvian Amazonia (redirect from Peruvian Amazon Basin)
selva peruana) or just the jungle (Spanish: la selva), is the area of the Amazon rainforest in Peru, east of the Andes and Peru's borders with Ecuador, Colombia...
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Campina is a Neotropical ecoregion found in the Amazon biome. It refers to vegetation that grows on infertile sandy soil with poor drainage. The term may...
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followed Brazil's commitment to significantly reduce deforestation in the Amazon biome over the next decade. Since its creation, the Fund has supported more...
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Amazon River Amazon biome, a biome that covers most of the Amazon basin and some adjoining areas Amazon natural region, a region of Colombia Amazon Region (Ecuador)...
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Flying river (category Amazon basin)
large quantities of water vapor transported in the atmosphere from the Amazon Basin to other parts of South America. The forest trees release water vapor...
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Brazil has its territory occupied by six terrestrial biomes and one marine biome. The term "biome" has several meanings. In a narrow sense (e.g., Whittaker...
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moist forests of the Amazon biome. List of plants of Atlantic Forest vegetation of Brazil Ecoregions of the Atlantic Forest biome Restinga.net World Wildlife...
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Red acouchi (category Fauna of the Amazon)
subregion of the Amazon biome, including Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, and Brazil, east of the Rio Branco and mainly north of the Amazon, with a few records...
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Guianan savanna (category Amazon biome)
Brazil. It is in the Amazon biome. The savanna covers an area of rolling upland plains on the Guiana Shield between the Amazon and Orinoco basins. It...
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Negro–Branco moist forests (category Amazon biome)
in southern Venezuela, eastern Colombia and northern Brazil, in the Amazon biome. It lies on the watershed between the Orinoco and Rio Negro basins. It...
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Guianan moist forests (category Amazon biome)
Brazil and the Guyanas (Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana). It is in the Amazon biome. The climate is hot and humid, with two rainy seasons each year. As of...
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have been designed for visitors with reduced mobility as part of France's "Amazon for All" program. Other hiking and tourist opportunities exist including...
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territory in the northwest of the state of Amazonas, Brazil. It is in the Amazon biome, and is mostly covered in forest. A number of different ethnic groups...
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