Natural vegetation of amazon basin

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What is natural vegetation And wildlife in the Amazon basin .

Answered by admin @ 24/08/2021

The Amazon basin is the part of South America drained by the Amazon River and its tributaries. Most of the basin is covered by the Amazon Rainforest, also known as Amazonia.Plant growth is dense and its variety of animal inhabitants is comparatively high due to the heavy rainfall and the dense and extensive evergreen and coniferous forests. Little sunlight reaches the ground due to the dense roof canopy by plants. The ground remains dark and damp and only shade tolerant vegetation will grow here. Orchids and bromeliads exploit trees and other plants to get closer to the sunlight. They grow hanging onto the branches or tree trunks with aerial roots, not as parasites but as epiphytes. Species of tropical trees native to the Amazon include Brazil nut, rubber tree and Assai palm.More than 1,400 species of mammals are found in the Amazon, the majority of which are species of bats and rodents. Its larger mammals include the jaguar, ocelot, capybara and South American tapir.The green anaconda inhabits the shallow waters of the Amazon and the emerald tree boa and boa constrictor live in the Amazonian tree tops.More than 90% of
the animal species in the Amazon are insects,of which about 40% are beetles (Coleoptera constituting almost 25% of all known types of animal life-forms

Natural vegetation of amazon basin

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