Várzea

References


WORK CITED

 BOOKS:

Goulding, Michael. Floods of Fortune: Ecology and Economy Along the Amazon. New York: Columbia UP, 1996.

Junk, Wolfgang J. The Central Amazon Floodplain: Ecology of a Pulsing System. Ecological Studies Vol. 126. Berlin:
    Springer, 1997.

Padoch, Christine (Ed.), et al. Várzea: Diversity, Development, and Conservation of Amazonia's Whitewater
    Floodplains. Advances in Economic Botany, Vol. 13. New York: NY Botanical Garden Press, 1999.

Prance, Ghillean T. (Ed.), and Thomas E. Lovejoy (Ed.). Key Environments: Amazonia. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1985.

 ONLINE INFORMATION:

All information about individual várzea comes from the
World Wildlife Fund

 PICTURE SOURCES:

Montealegrevarzea.jpg

http://www.worldwildlife.org/wildworld/profiles/photos/nt/nt0141a.html

varzealake.jpg

http://www.amazonian-fish.co.uk/images/lake.jpg

amazonmap.jpg

http://www.moore.org/program_areas/environment/initiatives/amazon-andes/initiative_amazon-andes.asp

buriti.jpg

http://www.eco.tur.br/ecoguias/pantanal/fotos/flora/buriti.jpg

virola.jpg

http://ww2.cnpf.embrapa.br/internet/comunicados/Virola.jpg

virolafruit.jpg

http://leda.lycaeum.org/Images/Virola_surinamensis.13208.jpg

acaipalm.jpg

http://www.plantapalm.com/vpe/photos/Species/Pics/euterpe_oleracea.JPG

Zingiberaceae.jpg

http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/FloraData/1001/Images/Zingiberaceae/Zingiberaceae-Tapeinochilus%20ananassae-001.jpg

ceibapentandra.jpg

http://botany.cs.tamu.edu/FLORA/schoepke/cei-pe-2.jpg

treesinwater.jpg

http://www.discoverbrazil.com/nhotels/UacariLodge/gallery.cfm

dugoutcanoe.jpg

http://www.dghonline.org/images/peru/canoe.jpg

kaiaposhaman.jpg

http://www.mongabay.com/images/pictures/wren-shaman-3.html

piranha2.jpg

http://www.e-trip.com/amazon/amazon5.htm

rubberharvest.jpg

http://www.e-trip.com/amazon/amazon4.htm

cacao.jpg

http://www.transfairusa.org/images/CACAO.jpg

heveabrasiliensis

http://www2.hawaii.edu/~mccorkhi/rubber.html

transamazonianhighway.jpg

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/041202/041202_amazon_vlg8a.widec.jpg

brazilrainforestroad.jpg

http://ens-newswire.com/ens/pics16/brazilrainforestroad.jpg

logging.jpg

http://www.lbaconferencia.org/eng/press_images.htm

solimo.jpg

http://www.amazonian-fish.co.uk/indexamaz.html

marajo.jpg

http://www.worldwildlife.org/wildworld/profiles/photos/nt/nt0138a.html

gurupa.jpg

http://www.ilesdusoleil.com/htm_fr/amazone/gurupa.htm

purus.jpg

http://www.worldwildlife.org/wildworld/profiles/photos/nt/nt0156a.html

iquitos.jpg

http://www.worldwildlife.org/wildworld/profiles/photos/nt/nt0128a.html
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