Amazon River | Facts, Location & Characteristics Lesson Transcript Instructors Ranaa Aboumosallam Arafat View bio David Wood View bio Learn where the Amazon River is and how long it is. See the Amazon River basin on a map. Understand how this river has shaped the cultures surrounding it.Update...
The AGBC values in our map were generally lower than those reported in the 3NC from Brazil. This was especially true in riparian zones, the western portion of the basin, and areas affected by human influence. The 3rd National Communication estimated biomass using 1 × 1 km cells, an...
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South America is home to the highest freshwater fish biodiversity on Earth1,2, and the hotspot of species richness is located in the western Amazon basin (Fig. 1)3,4. The location of this hotspot is enigmatic, as it is inconsistent with the pattern observed in river systems across the wor...
Historically, the Amazon basin has served as a large carbon sink, but deforestation and forest degradation have made parts of the region a carbon source2,3,4,5,6,7,8. Still, the region stores a huge amount of carbon as biomass9,10, plays an important role in regulating water cycles11,...
The Amazon basin includes 550 Mha covered with rainforests, and 60% of this area is in Brazil. The conversion of rainforest for soybean production raises concerns about how Brazil can reconcile production and environmental goals. Here we investigated the degree to which intensification could help...
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Fig. 1: Location of sampling stations in Andean headwater and piedmont streams of the Amazon basin. a–cThe outline of the catchment of the Napo River is shown in red, stations in the main-stem are shown by blue circles and in the tributaries by green squares. ...
The following sources of cartographic information were employed to estimate, and map lost and remnant natural capital in the Colombian Amazon basin: 1 To define the official limits of the Colombian Amazon Basin, we resorted to the Colombian Hydrographic Zoning map (IDEAM, 2013) on a scale of ...
The Amazon Basinis the perfect location if you would like to become a Fungi, the constant humidity combined with heat is the perfect combination for fungi to diversity in the Amazon Basin. Mushrooms and Fungi from the Amazon Rainforest in Ecuador. All were taken atShiripuno Amazon Lodgein the...