Amazonian Wetlands (IMAGE)

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo

Amazonian Wetlands

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Compilation of data from forest inventories and botanical collections generates a list of 3,615 tree species in wetland areas of the Amazon Basin. The account makes up for 53 percent of all tree species thus far confirmed for the entire Amazon region.

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Thiago Sanna Freire Silva/ UNESP

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