The Amazon Várzea - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Amazon Várzea write by Miguel Pinedo-Vasquez. This book was released on 2010-11-30. The Amazon Várzea available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book takes a multi-disciplinary and critical look at what has changed over the last ten years in one of the world's most important and dynamic ecosystems, the Amazon floodplain or várzea. It also looks forward, assessing the trends that will determine the fate of environments and people of the várzea over the next ten years and providing crucial information that is needed to formulate strategies for confronting these looming realities.
The Amazon Várzea
The Amazon Várzea - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Amazon Várzea write by Miguel Pinedo-Vasquez. This book was released on 2010-11-30. The Amazon Várzea available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book takes a multi-disciplinary and critical look at what has changed over the last ten years in one of the world's most important and dynamic ecosystems, the Amazon floodplain or várzea. It also looks forward, assessing the trends that will determine the fate of environments and people of the várzea over the next ten years and providing crucial information that is needed to formulate strategies for confronting these looming realities.
The Amazon
The Amazon - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Amazon write by H. Sioli. This book was released on 2012-12-06. The Amazon available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Amazon -that name was given to the biggest river on earth and is often used for the whole area of its basin too. This geographical region is currently referred to as Amazonia, thus emphasizing the peculiar character of its aquatic and terrestrial reaches. The Amazon embodied the dream of many a naturalist to explore what for a long time was a terra incognita. In recent years, however, Amazonia has emerged as a main centre for 'development' by some of the countries in which it lies and by foreign industrialized nations. The development projects and enterprises have aroused woridwide interest and have given rise to discussions on their aims and their consequences to the Amazonian nature. Limnological and ecological investigations in Amazonia started only about 40 years ago. The editor had the good fortune to partake in them from the very beginning. He spent his decisive years in Amazonia, and dedicated his life's work to that research and to that country and the Amazonian people. Nearing the end of his scicntific activities, hc is gratcful to bc ablc to summarizc in this book most of the knowledge we possess at present of Amazonian limnology and landscape ecology.
Forest Structure, Function and Dynamics in Western Amazonia
Forest Structure, Function and Dynamics in Western Amazonia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Forest Structure, Function and Dynamics in Western Amazonia write by Randall W. Myster. This book was released on 2017-03-20. Forest Structure, Function and Dynamics in Western Amazonia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Amazon Basin contains the largest and most diverse tropical rainforest in the world. Besides the Andes and the Atlantic Ocean, the rainforest is bounded to the north by the Guiana crystalline shield and to the south by the Brazilian crystalline shield, marked at their edges by cataracts in the rivers and often dominated by grasslands. This book is motivated not just by the Amazon's scientific interest but also by its role in many ecosystem functions critical to life on Earth. These ecosystems are characterized both by their complexity and their interactive, higher-order linkages among both abiotic and biotic components. Within Amazonia, the Western Amazon (west of 65° latitude) is the most pristine and, perhaps, the most complex within the Amazon Basin. This Western Amazon may be broadly divided into non-flooded forests (e.g. terra firme, white sand, palm) and forests flooded with white water (generally referred to as várzea) and with black water (generally referred to as igapó). Here, for the first time, is a book devoted entirely to Western Amazonia, containing chapters by scientists at the forefront of their own areas of expertise. It should be a valuable resource for all future researchers and scholars who venture into Western Amazonia, as it continues to be one of the most beautiful, mysterious, remote and important ecosystems on Earth.
Igapó (Black-water flooded forests) of the Amazon Basin
Igapó (Black-water flooded forests) of the Amazon Basin - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Igapó (Black-water flooded forests) of the Amazon Basin write by Randall W. Myster. This book was released on 2018-10-22. Igapó (Black-water flooded forests) of the Amazon Basin available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Igapó forests are a common part of the Amazon whose ecosystems are critical to our shared human future. The introduction addresses the structure, function and dynamics of igapó forests in the Amazon basin, focusing on their uniqueness due to their high level of complexity defined as the many ways that different components of igapó forests in the Amazon basin ecosystem interact and also on how those interactions are on a higher-order compared to other tropical forests. The text then breaks down the igapó ecosystem using these sections: (1) Igapó forests over space and time, (2) Water, light and soils, (3) The carbon cycle, (4) Litter, fungi and invertebrates, (5) Vertebrates, (6) Plant population studies, (7) Plant community studies, and (8) Human impacts and management. Experts from around the world serve as chapter authors that review what is known about their specific part of the igapó ecosystem, what research they have done, and also what needs to be done in the future.
