Amazon Biome

Dec 5, 2012
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Amazon Biome sensu WWF
The Amazon Biome is roughly equivalent of the (usually called) Amazon Rainforest (Floresta Amazônica or Amazônia, in Portuguese and Selva Amazónica o Amazonía in Spanish)
The Amazon Biome is mainly a moist broadleaf forest but can also include other vegetation physiognomies like swamp forests and flooded forest, savannas, grasslands and bamboo mixed forests among others.

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JC Riveros
Sidney Rodrigues
Cesar Suarez
Aldo Soto
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Contemporary (circa 2000) distribution of the Amazon Biome
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 WWF´s Living Amazon Initiative
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1:5´000 000
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About the Uploader

JC Riveros
Conservation Director with WWF Peru

I used to be an ornithologists and an expert in coastal marine ecology and shore birds within the Humboldt Current Ecoregion. I have also worked extensively as a consultant and professor for local as well as international conservation organizations including APECO and WCS and for national research...