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Pernambuco Coastal Forests
The Pernambuco coastal forests is an ecoregion of the Tropical moist broadleaf forests Biome, and the South American Atlantic Forest biome. It is located in northeastern Brazil. Geography The Pernambuco coastal forests occupy an 80 km-wide strip along the Atlantic coast of northeastern Brazil in the states of Pernambuco and Alagoas. The forests extend from near sea level to in elevation, on the windward slopes of the Borborema Plateau. The Goiana River of Pernambuco marks the forests' northern extent, and the Mundaú River of Alagoas the southern extent. The ecoregion is bounded on the east by the Atlantic Ocean and the coastal Atlantic Coast restingas forests and Rio Piranhas mangroves. To the east, the forests transition to the drier Pernambuco interior forests and Caatinga. Climate The ecoregion has a tropical climate with annual rainfall ranging from 1,750 to 2,000 mm. There is a dry period from October through January. Natural history Flora The four-tier ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Recife
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Atlantic Coast Restingas
The Atlantic Coast restingas is an ecoregion of the tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests biome, and the South American Atlantic Forest biome. It is located along Brazil's Atlantic coast, from the country's northeast to its southeast. Restingas are coastal forests which form on sandy, acidic, and nutrient-poor soils, and are characterized by medium-sized trees and shrubs adapted to the dry and nutrient-poor conditions found there. Setting The ecoregion covers an area of , and includes several well-defined enclaves that range along the Atlantic coast from Brazil's northeast to southeast, extending from the tropics to the subtropics. The northernmost enclave is in Rio Grande do Norte state in northeastern Brazil. Other enclaves are north and south of the city of Salvador and near the mouth of the Jequitinhonha River in Bahia state; north and south of the mouth of the Rio Paraíba do Sul in Rio de Janeiro state; and along the coast of southern Santa Catarina state and Ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Ecoregions In 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] |
List Of Plants Of Atlantic Forest Vegetation Of Brazil
A list of native plants found in the Atlantic Forest Biome of southeastern and southern Brazil. Additions occur as botanical discoveries and reclassifications are presented. They are grouped under their botanical Families. Acanthaceae * '' Mendoncia velloziana'' Mart. * '' Mendoncia puberula'' Mart. * '' Aphelandra squarrosa'' Nees * '' Aphelandra stephanophysa'' Nees * '' Aphelandra rigida'' Glaz. et Mildbr. * '' Justicia polita'' (Nees) Profice * '' Justicia clausseniana'' (Nees) Profice * '' Justicia nervata'' (Lindau) Profice Amaranthaceae * ''Pfaffia'' '' pulverulenta'' ( Mart.) Kuntze Amaryllidaceae * ''Hippeastrum'' '' calyptratum'' Herb. Anacardiaceae * '' Astronium'' '' fraxinifolium'' Schott * ''Astronium graveolens'' Jacq. * '' Tapirira'' '' guianensis'' Aubl. Annonaceae * '' Annona'' '' cacans'' Warm. * ''Duguetia'' '' salicifolia'' R.E.Fr. * ''Guatteria'' '' australis'' A.St.-Hil. * '' Guatteria dusenii'' R.E.Fr. * '' Guetteria nigrescens'' Mart. * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murici Ecological Station
The Murici Ecological Station ( pt, Estação Ecológica de Murici) is an ecological station in the state of Alagoas, Brazil. It preserves a rugged area of Atlantic Forest that is important as a home for several species of rare or endangered birds. Location The Murici Ecological Station (ESEC) is divided between the municipalities of Flexeiras (38.01%), Messias (0.86%) and Murici (61.2%) in Alagoas. It has an area of . The ESEC is in the northwestern region of Alagoas, in an area that has been degraded by sugarcane plantations and cattle ranching. The ESEC is used only by researchers and for environmental education. Most of the station is in the Borborema Plateau, but parts of the east of the ESEC are in the coastal sedimentary tablelands. Elevations range from . History The Murici Environmental Protection Area was created by state law 5,907 of 14 March 1997 to provide a buffer zone for the ESEC. The Murici Ecological Station was created by federal decree on 28 May 2001. The c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sugarcane
Sugarcane or sugar cane is a species of (often hybrid) tall, Perennial plant, perennial grass (in the genus ''Saccharum'', tribe Andropogoneae) that is used for sugar Sugar industry, production. The plants are 2–6 m (6–20 ft) tall with stout, jointed, fibrous stalks that are rich in sucrose, which accumulates in the Plant stem, stalk internodes. Sugarcanes belong to the grass family, Poaceae, an economically important flowering plant family that includes maize, wheat, rice, and sorghum, and many forage crops. It is native to the warm temperate and tropical regions of India, Southeast Asia, and New Guinea. The plant is also grown for biofuel production, especially in Brazil, as the canes can be used directly to produce ethyl alcohol (ethanol). Grown in tropical and subtropical regions, sugarcane is the world's largest crop by production quantity, totaling 1.9 billion tonnes in 2020, with Brazil accounting for 40% of the world total. Sugarcane accounts for 79% of sug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caesalpinia Echinata
''Paubrasilia echinata'' is a species of flowering plant in the legume family, Fabaceae, that is endemic to the Atlantic Forest of Brazil. It is a Brazilian timber tree commonly known as Pernambuco wood or brazilwood ( pt, pau-de-pernambuco, ; Tupi: ) and is the national tree of Brazil. This plant has a dense, orange-red heartwood that takes a high shine, and it is the premier wood used for making bows for stringed instruments. The wood also yields a historically important red dye called brazilin, which oxidizes to brazilein. The name ''pau-brasil'' was applied to certain species of the genus ''Caesalpinia'' in the medieval period, and was given its original scientific name ''Caesalpinia echinata'' in 1785 by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck. More recent taxonomic studies have suggested that it merits recognition as a separate genus, and it was thus renamed ''Paubrasilia echinata'' in 2016. The Latin specific epithet of ''echinata'' refers to hedgehog, from ''echinus'', and describes t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deforestation
Deforestation or forest clearance is the removal of a forest or stand of trees from land that is then converted to non-forest use. Deforestation can involve conversion of forest land to farms, ranches, or urban use. The most concentrated deforestation occurs in tropical rainforests. About 31% of Earth's land surface is covered by forests at present. This is one-third less than the forest cover before the expansion of agriculture, a half of that loss occurring in the last century. Between 15 million to 18 million hectares of forest, an area the size of Bangladesh, are destroyed every year. On average 2,400 trees are cut down each minute. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations defines deforestation as the conversion of forest to other land uses (regardless of whether it is human-induced). "Deforestation" and "forest area net change" are not the same: the latter is the sum of all forest losses (deforestation) and all forest gains (forest expansion) in a gi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blond Capuchin
The blond capuchin (''Sapajus flavius'') is a species of capuchin monkey endemic to northeastern Brazil. This endangered species was rediscovered in 2006. It can live in exceptionally large groups of over 150 individuals, and like other capuchin species, exhibits a complex and high level of sociality. It is threatened by loss of habitat due to agriculture, primarily sugarcane fields. In many cases this has caused sugarcane to make up a large portion of their diet, which would otherwise consist of mostly fruit and small animals. The blond capuchin is known to inhabit both the Atlantic forest and Caatinga biomes, although the habitation of the Caatinga may be a recent choice caused by human encroachment into its former habitats. Like other primate species, the blond capuchin is also threatened by poaching and capture for the illegal pet trade. Classification The blond capuchin was first described as "caitaia" by Georg Marcgrave in 1648. In 1774 Johann Christian Daniel von Schreb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red-handed Howler Monkey
The red-handed howler (''Alouatta belzebul'') is a vulnerable species of howler monkey, a type of New World monkey. It is endemic to Brazil, found in the southeastern Amazon and disjunctly in the Atlantic Forest between Rio Grande do Norte and Sergipe. Taxonomy Considerable taxonomic confusion has surrounded this species. Until 2001, most authorities included the Amazon black howler as a subspecies (or simply a taxonomically insignificant variation) of the red-handed howler, Groves, C. (2001). ''Primate Taxonomy.'' Smithsonian Institution Press. though its distinction had already been pointed out much earlier.da Cruz Lima, E. (1945). ''Mammals of Amazônia.'' Vol. 1. Contribuições do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi de História Natural e Etnografia. The red-handed howler remained variable in ecology, colour and pattern of the fur, shape of the cranium, and shape of the hyoid bone (of great importance in the voice of the howler monkeys; a likely isolating mechanism between the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Endemic Bird Area
An Endemic Bird Area (EBA) is an area of land identified by BirdLife International as being important for habitat-based bird conservation because it contains the habitats of restricted-range bird species (''see below for definition''), which are thereby endemic to them. An EBA is formed where the distributions of two or more such restricted-range species overlap. Using this guideline, 218 EBAs were identified when Birdlife International established their Biodiversity project in 1987. accessed 10 May 2011 A secondary EBA comprises the range of only one restricted-range species, or an area which is only the partial breeding range of a range-restricted species. EBAs contain about 93% of the world's restricted-range bird species, as well as su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
