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 ...
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. ...
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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...
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61. This timeline contrasts with the scenario hypothesized by many dipterocarp researchers which posits that the Dipterocarpaceae originated on Gondwanaland >120 Ma3or >135 Ma62, and that Dipterocarpaceae and related lineages distributed in South America, Africa, Madagascar, Seychelles, and Asia ...
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...
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)...
An overall comparison of reforestation with the four tree species is provided in a heat map in Fig. 8. As seen, reforestation with keruing has the lowest environmental impacts overall, as also discussed in Section 4.1, but it is the second most expensive as it has no revenues. On the oth...
The Amazon is in South America. It is the biggest rain forest in the world. More than half of the rain forest is in Brazil. 【小题2】 Many plants and animals live in the Amazon. There are more kinds of plants and animals there than anywhere else in the world. The biggest mix of ...