As fires rage in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, the south-east Asian nation of Indonesia is witnessing a similarly devastating ecological tragedy unfold. The dry season has arrived in Indonesia - home to some of the world's oldest tropical forests - bringing with it its worst annual fire season ...
The bulk of the world's tropical rainforest occurs in the Amazon Basin in South America. The Congo Basin and Southeast Asia, respectively, have thesecond and third largest areasof tropical rainforest. Rainforests also exist on some the Caribbean islands, in Central America, in India, on scatte...
Savannas cover over half of Africa and large portions of Australia, South America, and are even in the country of India. Temperate grasslands are found in regions including Argentina, Australia, and the central part of North America. Prairies and steppes are two types of temperate grasslands. ...
which are the modes of the kernel density estimates of the age distributions shown in (b), based on the parameter Setting 1. The red bars correspond to the 95% confidence intervals that were obtained by calculating the mode of 1000 bootstrap density estimates of the ages of each family...
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1. Location of stratigraphic sections and macrofossil localities in northern South America.(A) Map showing modern-day distance to Chicxulub crater. (B) Paleogeographic reconstruction of northernSouth America [area delimited by dotted rectangle in (A)] during the late Maastrichtian, based on (64)...
One River: Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest by Wade Davis TROPICAL NATURE : LIFE AND DEATH IN THE RAIN FORESTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA by Adrian Forsyth Wizard of the Upper Amazon: The Story of Manuel Cordova-Rios by Cordova-Rice Lamb ...
In Central and South America, geologists hustle to find fossils exposed by road cuts and mines before heavy rains wash them away and the jungle hides them again. Before this study, little was known about the effect of this extinction on the evolution of flowering plants that now dominat...
In the near absence of proximal geological records from south of the Antarctic Circle, it is disputed whether polar ice could exist under such environmental conditions. Here we use a sedimentary sequence recovered from the West Antarctic shelf—the southernmost Cretaceous record reported so far—and ...
While this book used a global model for delineating the temperate rainforests of the world as presented in Chapter 1, there were some regions that appeared on closer inspection to qualify as rainforest even though they did not make the cut in the global model. The authors of regional profiles...