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The Last Forest
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 344

The Last Forest

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Amazon
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 43

The Amazon

Presenting fascinating information about one of the largest rivers in the world, this guide also contains insight on the countries through which it flows. Readers will discover more about the first Amazonians and the European conquest. They will also find out about the people and wildlife that live in the rainforest along its banks, and learn more about the threats to their way of life and to the rainforest itself.

The Amazon Rainforest : One of Earth's Largest Natural Resources | Children's Books about Forests Grade 4 | Children's Environment & Ecology Books
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 72

The Amazon Rainforest : One of Earth's Largest Natural Resources | Children's Books about Forests Grade 4 | Children's Environment & Ecology Books

The information in this book will make you understand the need to protect Earth’s natural systems - the Amazon Rainforest included. There will be a discussion on the functions, structures and characteristics of living things and how they interact with one another and their environment, too. Learn more about the Earth to appreciate it better. Begin reading today.

Amazon Rainforest
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 32

Amazon Rainforest

With an area of more than 2 million square miles (5.2 million square kilometers), the Amazon rainforest is the largest rainforest in the world. It is so large that it covers an area equal to about half of the United States. Discover more in Amazon Rainforest, one of the titles in the Natural Wonders of the World series.

In the Heart of the Amazon Forest
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 85

In the Heart of the Amazon Forest

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007-02-01
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  • Publisher: Penguin UK

One of the most impressive of all Victorian scientists but also a marvellous writer, Bates' (1825-1892) account of his years in the upper reaches of the Amazon is almost too good to be true - a great monument to human inquisitiveness as he battles great hoards of malevolent reptiles and insects in his quest for ever more obscure specimens on ever more narrow and creeper-choked tributaries. Great Journeys allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries – but also back into ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different ways from our own. Few reading experiences can begin to match that of engaging with writers who saw astounding things: Great civilisations, walls of ice, violent and implacable jungles, deserts and mountains, multitudes of birds and flowers new to science. Reading these books is to see the world afresh, to rediscover a time when many cultures were quite strange to each other, where legends and stories were treated as facts and in which so much was still to be discovered.

Forest Structure, Function and Dynamics in Western Amazonia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 222

Forest Structure, Function and Dynamics in Western Amazonia

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 m...

Tree of Rivers
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 522

Tree of Rivers

Amazonia contains by far the world's largest river and the greatest expanse of tropical rain forest, home to the greatest biological diversity on the planet. This enthralling book brilliantly explains why the rain forest is crucial for our planet's survival, and vividly describes the passionate struggles that have taken place to utilize, protect and understand it. John Hemming's thrilling account recalls the adventures and misadventures of intrepid explorers, Jesuits and the rubber barons who enslaved thousands of Indians. It also tells of nineteenth-century botanists, humanitarians and advocates for Indian rights, as well as the archaeologists and anthropologists who have uncovered the secrets of early man here. Hemming also describes the Amazon's flora, fauna and natural beauty, all now under threat as the forests are destroyed to feed our appetite for timber, beef and soya.

Change in the Amazon Basin: Man's impact on forests and rivers
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 252
Assessment of the Risk of Amazon Dieback
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 116

Assessment of the Risk of Amazon Dieback

The Amazon basin is a key component of the global carbon cycle. Not only is the old-growth rainforests in the basin huge carbon storage with about 120 billion metric tons of carbon in their biomass, but they also process annually twice the rate of global anthropogenic fossil fuel emissions through respiration and photosynthesis. In addition, the basin is the largest global repository of biodiversity and produces about 20 percent of the world s flow of fresh water into the oceans. Despite the large CO2 efflux from recent deforestation, the Amazon rainforest is still considered to be a net carbon sink or reservoir because vegetation growth on average exceeds mortality. However, current climate...

The Amazon River Forest
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 226

The Amazon River Forest

The floodplain forests of the Amazon, the world's largest river, are among the most threatened habitats in South America. Yet little is known about how these unique, seasonally flooded forests were used in the past, or their current importance to farmers, livestock owners, and fisherfolk. This book explores the natural history knowledge of the floodplain inhabitants and how we might better use their knowledge to promote sound conservation and development policies.