6 天之前 · Amazon Rainforest, large tropical rainforest occupying the Amazon basin in northern South America and covering an area of 2,300,000 square miles (6,000,000 square km). It is the world’s richest and most-varied biological reservoir, containing several million species.

2025年1月25日 · The Amazon Rainforest is one of the most ecologically diverse places on Earth. Home to more animal species than anywhere else, it's the plants that provide food and homes for forest life. There are around 80,000 species of Amazon Rainforest plants, which grow as trees, shrubs, bushes and vines creating a wildlife-filled environment.

These tropical rainforest trees, such as the cacao, depend on the dappled sunlight that filters through the canopy. Beneath lies the forest floor, home to shade-tolerant tree species. Seedlings and saplings await opportunities to ascend as openings appear in the canopy above.

The Amazon rainforest, [a] also called Amazon jungle or Amazonia, is a moist broadleaf tropical rainforest in the Amazon biome that covers most of the Amazon basin of South America. This basin encompasses 7,000,000 km 2 (2,700,000 sq mi), [ 2 ] of which 6,000,000 km 2 (2,300,000 sq mi) are covered by the rainforest . [ 3 ]

2024年6月25日 · Amazon Rainforest Plants: The Amazon Rainforest is known for being the largest tropical rainforest in the world, covering much of Brazil, Peru, Colombia and other countries in South America. Because of its strategic location, the Amazon Rainforest is naturally home to the world’s unique and most diverse plant and animal species .

Almost 400 billion trees belonging to 16,000 different species grow in the Amazon rainforest, according to scientists from the RAINFOR consortium in Peru and the UK, who participated in the recent study published in Science magazine. But half the total number of trees are thought to belong to just 227 ‘hyperdominant’ species, among them the ...

2019年5月14日 · Loss of these trees goes beyond the aesthetic: the Amazon tropical forest serves as an important carbon store and as the “lungs of the planet,” producing more than 20 percent of the world’s...

Tropical rainforests set records in biodiversity: anywhere between 40 to 100 species of tree can be found in a 1-hectare plot of land. Take the Cocha Cashu Biological Station in the Amazon floodplain forests of Peru, as an example. There, at least 1,856 species of higher plants have been discovered 2.

2024年10月2日 · It has been a century-long quest to achieve these aims for the complex distributional patterns of biodiversity in Amazonia 2, 3, an area formed by the tropical rain forests of the Amazon...

2023年11月8日 · Using 2.046 botanically-inventoried tree plots across the largest tropical forest on Earth, we mapped tree species-diversity and tree species-richness at 0.1-degree resolution, and...