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Bahia Coastal Forests
The Bahia coastal forests are a tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion of eastern Brazil, part of the larger Atlantic Forest region. Setting The Bahia coastal forests occupy a belt approximately wide along the Atlantic coast of eastern Brazil, in the states of Bahia and Espirito Santo. The Itapicuru River forms the northern boundary of the ecoregion, which extends south to near the Itapemirim River. The ecoregion is bounded on the east by the Atlantic Ocean and the enclaves of the Atlantic Coast restingas forests and Bahia mangroves. To the west, the forests transition to the drier Bahia interior forests. The forests cover Tertiary sedimentary plateaus extending from near the seacoast westward to the lower slopes of the Serra da Mantiqueira. The prevalent soils are tropical nutrient-poor yellow-red latosol and podzols. Climate The ecoregion has a tropical climate with annual rainfall ranging from 1,200 to 1,800 mm, evenly distributed throughout the year. The southe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monte Pascoal National Park
Monte Pascoal National Park ( pt, Parque Nacional e Histórico do Monte Pascoal) is a national park in the state of Bahia, Brazil. Location The National and Historical park is in the Atlantic Forest biome. It covers an area of , of which overlaps with the Barra Velha indigenous land. It was created by decree 242 of 29 November 1961, modified by decree 3.421 of 20 April 2000, and is administered by the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation. It became part of the Central Atlantic Forest Ecological Corridor, created in 2002. The reserve covers parts of the municipalities of Porto Seguro and Prado in the state of Bahia. It is part of the Discovery Coast Atlantic Forest Reserves, a group of eight protected areas holding of the Atlantic Forest biome, that has been designated as a World Heritage Site. The park contains and takes its name from Monte Pascoal, the first land seen by the Portuguese explorer Pedro Álvares Cabral. Conservation The park is classified as IUC ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bahia Mangroves
The Bahia mangroves is a tropical ecoregion of the mangroves biome, and the South American Atlantic Forest biome, located in Northeastern Brazil. Its conservation status is considered to be critical/endangered due to global climate change and other factors. Geography The Bahia mangrove habitats occupy minor bays, estuaries, and river inlets along the coast from Recôncavo on Todos os Santos Bay in Bahia State; north to the Doce River in Espírito Santo State. The total ecoregion comprises 2,100 square kilometers (800 square miles) of shallow coastal waters and land. Flora Mangrove tree species include typical Atlantic Ocean tropical mangrove species, the red mangrove (''Rhizophora mangle'') of the Rhizophoraceae, the black mangrove (''Avicennia germinans'') of the Acanthaceae, and the white mangrove (''Laguncularia racemosa'') of the Combretaceae family. Fauna Benthic macrofauna are an important basis underlying the ecological functioning of coastal food webs in the Bahi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flora Of Bahia
Flora is all the plant life present in a particular region or time, generally the naturally occurring (indigenous) native plants. Sometimes bacteria and fungi are also referred to as flora, as in the terms '' gut flora'' or '' skin flora''. Etymology The word "flora" comes from the Latin name of Flora, the goddess of plants, flowers, and fertility in Roman mythology. The technical term "flora" is then derived from a metonymy of this goddess at the end of the sixteenth century. It was first used in poetry to denote the natural vegetation of an area, but soon also assumed the meaning of a work cataloguing such vegetation. Moreover, "Flora" was used to refer to the flowers of an artificial garden in the seventeenth century. The distinction between vegetation (the general appearance of a community) and flora (the taxonomic composition of a community) was first made by Jules Thurmann (1849). Prior to this, the two terms were used indiscriminately.Thurmann, J. (1849). ''Essai de P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ecoregions Of Brazil
The following is a list of ecoregions in Brazil as identified by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). Terrestrial ecoregions by major habitat type Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests *Alto Paraná Atlantic forests (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay) *Araucaria moist forests (Argentina, Brazil) * Atlantic Coast restingas (Brazil) *Bahia coastal forests (Brazil) * Bahia interior forests (Brazil) *Caatinga Enclaves moist forests (Brazil) * Fernando de Noronha-Atol das Rocas moist forests (Brazil) *Guayanan Highlands moist forests (Brazil, Colombia, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela) *Guianan moist forests (Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela) *Guianan piedmont and lowland moist forests (Brazil, Venezuela) *Gurupá várzea (Brazil) *Iquitos várzea (Bolivia, Brazil, Peru) *Japurá–Solimões–Negro moist forests (Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela) *Juruá–Purus moist forests (Brazil) *Madeira–Tapajós moist forests (Bolivia, Brazil) *Marajó várzea (Brazil) *Maranhão B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neotropical Tropical And Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface. Physically, it includes the tropical terrestrial ecoregions of the Americas and the entire South American temperate zone. Definition In biogeography, the Neotropic or Neotropical realm is one of the eight terrestrial realms. This realm includes South America, Central America, the Caribbean islands, and southern North America. In Mexico, the Yucatán Peninsula and southern lowlands, and most of the east and west coastlines, including the southern tip of the Baja California Peninsula are Neotropical. In the United States southern Florida and coastal Central Florida are considered Neotropical. The realm also includes temperate southern South America. In contrast, the Neotropical Floristic Kingdom excludes southernmost South America, which instead is placed in the Antarctic kingdom. The Neotropic is delimited by similarities in fauna or flora. Its fauna and flora are distinc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linhares Forest Reserve
Linhares is the name of a municipality in the state of Espírito Santo, Brazil, north of the state capital, Vitória. It is the largest municipality by area in the state, at 9,501.6 km², and has a population of 176,688 people (2020). The municipality is named in honor of D. Rodrigo de Souza Coutinho, Count of Linhares, who was a minister in the Brazilian government in the first two decades of the 19th century. The city took international knowledge, being the residence of Miss Gay Brazil 2013 and 2014. History The area today known as Linhares was once inhabited by the Botocudo. The town, founded by Europeans on August 22, 1800 was destroyed by the Indians during a war in 1809. The area was visited by Brazilian Emperor Dom Pedro II in 1860. An island he set foot on is still known as the Emperor's Island. Linhares became a municipality in 1945, when it was detached from the municipality of Colatina. Economy The economy of Linhares is mostly based on commerce, agriculture ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sooretama Biological Reserve
Sooretama Biological Reserve ( pt, Reserva Biológica de Sooretama is a biological reserve in the state of Espírito Santo, Brazil. History The area at present occupied by the reserve consists of two areas; one of was formerly the Parque de Refugio e Criação de Animais Silvestres Sooretama and another of was formerly the Parque Estadual Barra Seca of the state of Espirito Santo. These were merged on 20 September 1982 to create the biological reserve. It became part of the Central Atlantic Forest Ecological Corridor, created in 2002. The reserve covers of Atlantic Forest. It is administered by the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation. It covers parts of the municipalities of Jaguaré, Linhares, Vila Valério and Sooretama. Status The Biological Reserve is a "strict nature reserve" under IUCN protected area category Ia. Its purpose is to preserve the biota and other natural attributes without human interference. The reserve has a high number of endemic spe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golden-headed Lion Tamarin
The golden-headed lion tamarin (''Leontopithecus chrysomelas''), also the golden-headed tamarin, is a lion tamarin endemic to Brazil. It is found only in the lowland and premontane tropical forest fragments in the state of Bahia, and therefore is considered to be an endangered species. It lives at heights of . Its preferred habitat is within mature forest, but with habitat destruction this is not always the case. Several sources seem to have different information on the number of individuals within a group, and the type of social system that may be apparent. The golden-headed lion tamarin lives within group sizes ranging from 2 to 11 individuals, with the average size ranging from 4 to 7.Baker AJ, Bales K, Dietz JM. (2002). Mating system and group dynamics in lion tamarins. In: Kleiman DG, Rylands AB, editors. ''Lion Tamarins: biology and conservation.'' Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press. p 188-212. According to various sources, the group may consist of two adult males, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maned Three-toed Sloth
The maned sloth (''Bradypus torquatus'') is a three-toed sloth that is native to South America. It is one of four species of three-toed sloths belonging to the suborder Xenarthra and are placental mammals. They are endemic to the Atlantic coastal rainforest of southeastern and northeastern Brazil, located in the states of Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro and Bahia. Each of the individuals within the species are genetically distinct with different genetic makeup.The maned sloth is listen under Vulnerable (VU) according to the IUCN Red List and have a decreasing population trend. Distribution and habitat The maned sloth is found only in the Atlantic coastal rainforest of southeastern and northeastern Brazil. The sloths are an endemic species unique to Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro and Bahia. The largest number of individuals that inhabit the same space within the species currently occupy the state of Bahia. Bahia is also the location for the largest number of genetically diverse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bahia Coastal Forests WWF Satelite
Bahia ( , , ; meaning "bay") is one of the 26 states of Brazil, located in the Northeast Region of the country. It is the fourth-largest Brazilian state by population (after São Paulo, Minas Gerais, and Rio de Janeiro) and the 5th-largest by area. Bahia's capital is the city of Salvador (formerly known as "Cidade do São Salvador da Bahia de Todos os Santos", literally "City of the Saint Savior of the Bay of All the Saints"), on a spit of land separating the Bay of All Saints from the Atlantic. Once a monarchial stronghold dominated by agricultural, slaving, and ranching interests, Bahia is now a predominantly working-class industrial and agricultural state. The state is home to 7% of the Brazilian population and produces 4.2% of the country's GDP. Name The name of the state derives from the earlier captaincy of Bahia de Todos os Santos, named for Bay of All Saints (' in modern Portuguese), a major feature of its coastline. The bay itself was named by the explorer Amerigo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
