3) The Amazon River is a freshwater river. 4) The Amazon River is fed by more than 1000 sources 5) The Amazon Rainforest surrounds a large section of the Amazon River and is home to about 1/3 of the Earth's species. Where is the Amazon located exactly? The Amazon River's complex ...
Amazon River Facts and Location TheAmazon Riverwas discovered by Francisco de Orellana, a Spanish explorer when he happened upon a massive rainforest in South America in 1541. Within the rainforest was an immense river, guarded by a large group of female warriors. This led Orellana to name ...
We conducted a three-month field experiment focusing on the physical and chemical characteristics of fog in a tropical rainforest in Xishuangbanna, Southwest China, in the winter of 2019. In general, the fog would form at midnight and persist because of the increased long-wave radiative cooling ...
The Amazon rainforest is one of the largest carbon sinks in the World. Recent studies have found that Black River basin constitutes a vast area of Spodosols, which has capacity to store carbon until great depths. The objective of this study was to assess the humification degree of this ...
Lack of Evidence of Sylvatic Transmission of Dengue Viruses in the Amazon Rainforest Near Iquitos, Peru. Dengue viruses (DENV) are currently responsible for more human morbidity and mortality than any other known arbovirus, and all four DENV are known to exist... M Turell,A Gozalo,C Guevara...
Boulton CA, Lenton TM, Boers N (2022) Pronounced loss of Amazon rainforest resilience since the early 2000s. Nature Climate Change 12(3):271–278.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-022-01287-8 ArticleGoogle Scholar Brandon K (2014) Ecosystem Services from Tropical Forests: Review of Current Sc...
Asia is the world's biggest continent, with 60% of the world's people residing there. The Amazon rainforest is the largest on the planet. Earth's driest place is the Atacama Desert in Chile. NASA conducts research in the Atacama Desert to learn more about other planets. ...
Floristics and structure of a forest fragment at a transitional zone at the Amazon in Mato Grosso State, Municipality of Sinop Goal of this work was to evaluate the floristic composition and phytosociology of the arboreal vegetation of an urban forest fragment in Sinop, Mato ... RA Araujo,RB...
Drought impacts on the Amazon forest: the remote sensing perspective. New Phytol. 187, 569–578 (2010). Google Scholar Fensholt, R. et al. Greenness in semi-arid areas across the globe 1981–2007—an Earth Observing Satellite based analysis of trends and drivers. Remote. Sens. Environ. ...
Predation and the Evolution of Complex Oviposition Behaviour in Amazon Rainforest Frogs Terrestrial oviposition with free-living aquatic larvae is a common reproductive mode used by amphibians within the central Amazonian rainforest. We invest... William E. Magnusson and Jean-Marc Hero - 《Oecologia》...