The Amazon rainforest is theworld's largest tropical forest, and this biomemay be a significant contributor to primary biological aerosol (PBA) emissions on a global scale. These aerosols also play a pivotal role in modulating ecosystem dynamics, dispersing biological material over geographic barriers...
Establishing a clear definition is essential, and a bioeconomy in the Amazon might look different than in other regions. WRI Brasil’s paper, “An Innovative Bioeconomy for the Amazon: Concepts, Limits and Trends for a Definition Appropriate to the Rainforest Biome,” begins to paint a picture...
The Amazon rainforest The Amazon rainforest (in Portuguese, Floresta Amazônica or Amazônia; Spanish: Selva Amazónica or Amazonia), also known as Amazonia or Amazon jungle, is a moist broadleaf forest that covers most of the Amazon Basin of South America. This basin encompasses seven million...
The soil of the Amazon rainforest is generally thin, sandy, and lacking in nutrients because rain does not often penetrate the dense foliage found higher up in the biome. However, the Amazon is able to maintain a vast amount of underbrush and small vegetation as a result of the rapid turn...
The world's largest rainforest is the Amazon rainforest Brazil has the largest extent of rainforest cover, including nearly two-thirds of the Amazon. Rainforests also exist outside the tropics, including temperate North America, South America, Australia, and Russia. ...
Amazon (Amazônia) TheAmazon Biomecontains theAmazon Rainforest, an area of tropical rainforest and other ecoregions that cover most of theAmazon Basin, along with some adjacent areas to the north and east. As the most extensive forest formation on the planet, spanning 6.7 million sq km (2.6...
The Amazon rainforest contains almost two years of global carbon emissions, but is under threat as a carbon sink, according to a new study.
Amazon Days/Amazon Nights Place: Camp KM41, Amazonas, Brazil GPS coordinates: 2° 24’ 23.72’’ S / 60° 07’ 48.27” W Date: February 7, 1990 Rainy season Height: 220 m Biome: Tropical rainforest Habitat: Plain tropical rainforest Climate: Tropical Soundscape recorded ...
亚马逊 The Amazon Rainforest TheAmazonRainforest Background:•Amoistbroadleafforest(intheAmazonBasinofSouthAmerica)•TotalareaofAmazonBasin:7millionsquarekm²(theforestitselfoccupies5.5millionkm²)•locatedwithin9nations:Brazil(with60%oftherainforest),Colombia,Peru,Venezuela,Ecuador,Bolivia,Guyana,...
This is the Amazon Rainforest, an enormous ecosystem in Brazil. Other tropical rainforests can be found around the world, and together these form the tropical rainforest biome. In the picture we can see: The brown Amazon River, carrying lots of mud (sediment). ...