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...
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...
basin盆地 a wide, round open container, especially one used for holding liquid; a natural depression on the earth’s surface, typically containing water or formed by the convergence of rivers. 一个宽阔、圆形的开放容器,尤指...
Mapping land cover types in the Amazon Basin using 1 km JERS-1 mosaic. International Journal of Remote Sensing 21, 1201e1234.S. S. Saatchi, B. Nelson, E. Podest, and J. Holt, "Mapping land cover types in the Amazon basin using 1 km JERS-1 mosaic," Int. J. Remote Sens., vol. ...
However, he undertook three journeys to the Amazon Basin regions from 1882 to 1887, interacting with the residents of the area, including indigenous peoples who became his informants [33, 169]. Starting from an exploratory perspective that promoted the idea that progress would be achieved through...
data from the Brazilian municipality of Paragominas to produce four maps, one each of soil texture, slope, floodplains, and hydrography, that we then combined into a single land suitability map. This map has been incorporated into a spatial database, which also contains information on land use...
however significant areas of 7 other countries are all covered by this forest; Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana. The forest covers the drainage basin of the Amazon river. One in ten of the world’s known species live in the Amazon rain forest....
Upper Peruvian Amazon Basin Map The Amazon River is huge. While there is an ongoing debate as to whether or not it is the largest river in the world, it is the confirmed largest river… Find out more June 21, 2021 Travel to the Amazon Rainforest in 2021 After a year of quarantine,...
Inspired by past Amazon expeditions, I am attempting to cross South America, Atlantic to Pacific, east to west, following the mighty Amazon river, using the most versatile, complex, ancient and economical form of transport in the world – the human body. I will be traveling in the most ...
South America is home to the highest freshwater fish biodiversity on Earth, and the hotspot of species richness is located in the western Amazon basin. The location of this hotspot is enigmatic, as it is inconsistent with the pattern observed in river systems across the world of increasing speci...