Amazon Rainforest, large tropical rainforest occupying the Amazon basin in northern South America and covering an area of 2,300,000 square miles (6,000,000 square km). It is the world’s richest and most-varied biological reservoir, containing several mi
distributed in all vegetation categories in the region. The map uses airborne laser scanning (ALS) data calibrated by field forest inventories that are extrapolated to the region using a machine learning approach with inputs from Synthetic Aperture Radar (PALSAR), vegetation indices obtained from the...
Only 0.2% of the Amazon biome forest is sampled, and extensive effort is necessary to improve what we know about the tropical forest.doi:10.1186/S40663-020-00228-1Graciela TejadaEric Bastos GrgensAlex OvandoJean Pierre OmettoSpringerOpenForest Ecosystems...
After the Amazon Rainforest, the largest biome in the basin is theCerrado on Brazil’s centralplateau. This vast grassland regionencompassessome 2,000,000 square km (770,000 square miles) and covers one-fourth of the country’s land area. The savannas, palm swamps, grasslands, and forests ...
The original Amazon biome forest prior to European colonization: more than 647 million hectares (1.6 billion acres). Data from Amazon Conservation Association and MAAP. To arrive at this number, MAAP first had to create a map of the original Amazon biome, prior to European coloniza...
A month from now, the skies over parts of Brazil will fill with smoke. It's fire season in the Amazon, and the planet's largest rain forest is heading for another record burn.
Amazon Amphibians Frogs are overwhelmingly the most abundant amphibians in the rainforest. More than 1000 species of frogs are found in the Amazon Basin. Unlike temperate frogs which are mostly limited to habitats near water, tropical frogs are most abundant in the trees and relatively few are ...
Amazon biome corresponds to the tropical rainfall forest and Cerrado biome corresponds to the tropical savannah. “Other biomes” in the legend correspond to the Caatinga (semi-arid), Atlantic Forest (coastal forest), Pampa (grasslands), and Pantanal (wetlands) (boundaries not shown in the figure...
For delineating Amazonia forest distribution at 0.1° grid cells, the evergreen broadleaf forest land cover type of MCD12Q1 and the forest formation, mangrove, and forest plantation land cover types of the Map Biomass dataset were considered. The forest cover datasets with high resolution were res...
Already, 20% of the wider Amazon biome, including not only the rainforest but adjacent regions, has been lost to mining, logging, farming, hydropower dams and roads, according to the World Wildlife Fund. In the Amazon, this activity can be slowed or done in a much more sustainable way,...