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88 relations: Agouti, Alagoas, Amazon basin, Amburana cearensis, Anadenanthera colubrina var. cebil, Arecaceae, Astronium fraxinifolium, Atlantic dry forests, Atlantic Forest, Attalea speciosa, Bahia, Barbara Brown's titi, Brazil, Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources, Caatinga antwren, Caatinga cacholote, Caatinga moist-forest enclaves, Caatinga parakeet, Caatinga vesper mouse, Cabo Frio, Cattle, Ceará, Cedrela odorata, Cerrado, Charcoal, Chiroderma, Copernicia prunifera, Dalbergia frutescens, Deserts and xeric shrublands, Ecological succession, Ecoregion, Endemism, Fruit, Fuel, Goat, Grape, Handroanthus impetiginosus, Historical ecology, Hocicudo, Human impact on the environment, Juazeiro, Kaempfer's woodpecker, Karimi's fat-tailed mouse opossum, Leaf, Lear's macaw, List of plants of Caatinga vegetation of Brazil, Maranhão Babaçu forests, Melipona subnitida, Melon, Minas Gerais, ..., Moustached woodcreeper, Myracrodruon urundeuva, NASA, Northeast Region, Brazil, Oryzomys, Pampas, Pantanal, Papaya, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Petrolina, Piauí, Radiocarbon dating, Red-nosed mouse, Rhipidomys, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Norte, Sao Francisco black tyrant, Satellite imagery, São Francisco River, Schefflera morototoni, Schinopsis brasiliensis, Sergipe, Sertão, Sherd, Slash-and-burn, Spix's macaw, Tabebuia aurea, The War of the End of the World, Thorn forest, Transpiration, Tropics, Tupian languages, Vieira's long-tongued bat, White-spined Atlantic spiny rat, William Balée, William Denevan, Yonenaga's Atlantic spiny rat. Expand index (38 more) »
Agouti
The term agouti (agutí) or common agouti designates several rodent species of the genus Dasyprocta.
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Alagoas
Alagoas is one of the 27 states of Brazil and is situated in the eastern part of the Northeast Region.
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Amazon basin
The Amazon basin is the part of South America drained by the Amazon River and its tributaries.
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Amburana cearensis
Amburana cearensis (Portuguese common names; ambaúrana, amburana, amburana de cheiro, angelim, baru, cabocla, cerejeira rajada, cumaré, cumaru, cumaru de cheiro, cumaru do ceará, cumbaru das caatingas, emburana, emburana de cheiro, imburana, imburana brava, imburana cheirosa, imburana de cheiro, louro ingá, umburana, umburana lisa, umburana macho, umburana vermelha, umburana de cheiro, umburana-de-cheiro, umburana do cheiro:Americas Regional Workshop (Conservation & Sustainable Management of Trees, Costa Rica) 1998. Downloaded on 9 July 2007.) Spanish common names; ishpingo, roble criollo) is a species of timber tree in the Fabaceae family. This plant is native to Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Peru. It is threatened by habitat loss.
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Anadenanthera colubrina var. cebil
Anadenanthera colubrina var.
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Arecaceae
The Arecaceae are a botanical family of perennial trees, climbers, shrubs, and acaules commonly known as palm trees (owing to historical usage, the family is alternatively called Palmae).
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Astronium fraxinifolium
Astronium fraxinifolium is a timber tree, which is native to Amazon Rainforest, Atlantic Forest, Caatinga, and Cerrado vegetation in Brazil.
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Atlantic dry forests
The Atlantic dry forests are a tropical dry forest ecoregion of the Atlantic Forest Biome, located in eastern Brazil.
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Atlantic Forest
The Atlantic Forest (Mata Atlântica) is a South American forest that extends along the Atlantic coast of Brazil from Rio Grande do Norte state in the north to Rio Grande do Sul state in the south, and inland as far as Paraguay and the Misiones Province of Argentina, where the region is known as Selva Misionera.
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Attalea speciosa
Attalea speciosa (babassu, babassu palm, babaçu, cusi) is a palm native to the Amazon Rainforest region in South America.
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Bahia
Bahia (locally) is one of the 26 states of Brazil and is located in the northeastern part of the country on the Atlantic coast.
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Barbara Brown's titi
Barbara Brown's titi (Callicebus barbarabrownae), also popularly known as the blond titi monkey or northern Bahian blond titi, is a species of titi, a type of New World monkey.
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Brazil
Brazil (Brasil), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (República Federativa do Brasil), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America.
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Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources
Brazilian Institute of the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (Instituto Brasileiro do Meio Ambiente e dos Recursos Naturais Renováveis) is the Brazilian Ministry of the Environment's administrative arm.
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Caatinga antwren
The Caatinga antwren (Herpsilochmus sellowi) is a species of bird in the family Thamnophilidae.
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Caatinga cacholote
The Caatinga cacholote (Pseudoseisura cristata) is a species of bird in the Furnariidae family.
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Caatinga moist-forest enclaves
The Caatinga enclaves moist forests is an ecoregion of the Tropical moist forests Biome, and the South American Atlantic Forest biome.
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Caatinga parakeet
The Caatinga parakeet (Eupsittula cactorum) or cactus parakeet is a species of parrot in the family Psittacidae.
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Caatinga vesper mouse
The caatinga vesper mouse (Calomys expulsus) is a rodent species in the family Cricetidae from South America.
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Cabo Frio
Cabo Frio (Cold Cape) is a Brazilian municipality in Rio de Janeiro state, founded by the Portuguese on November 13, 1615.
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Cattle
Cattle—colloquially cows—are the most common type of large domesticated ungulates.
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Ceará
Ceará (locally in Ceará or in Northeast Region of Brazil the pronunciation is) is one of the 27 states of Brazil, located in the northeastern part of the country, on the Atlantic coast.
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Cedrela odorata
Cedrela odorata is a commercially important species of tree in the chinaberry family, Meliaceae, commonly known as Spanish cedar or Cuban cedar or cedro in Spanish.
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Cerrado
The Cerrado is a vast tropical savanna ecoregion of Brazil, particularly in the states of Goiás, Mato Grosso do Sul, Mato Grosso, Tocantins and Minas Gerais.
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Charcoal
Charcoal is the lightweight black carbon and ash residue hydrocarbon produced by removing water and other volatile constituents from animal and vegetation substances.
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Chiroderma
Chiroderma – big-eyed bats or white-lined bats – is a genus of leaf-nosed bat found in Central America, South America and the Lesser Antilles.
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Copernicia prunifera
Copernicia prunifera or the carnaúba palm or carnaubeira palm is a species of palm tree native to northeastern Brazil (mainly the states of Ceará, Piauí, Maranhão, Rio Grande do Norte and Bahia).
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Dalbergia frutescens
Dalbergia frutescens is a species of shrub distributed along the Atlantic coast of South America.
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Deserts and xeric shrublands
Deserts and xeric shrublands are a biome characterized by receiving only a small amount of moisture, usually defined as less than 250 mm of annual precipitation.
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Ecological succession
Ecological succession is the process of change in the species structure of an ecological community over time.
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Ecoregion
An ecoregion (ecological region) is an ecologically and geographically defined area that is smaller than a bioregion, which in turn is smaller than an ecozone.
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Endemism
Endemism is the ecological state of a species being unique to a defined geographic location, such as an island, nation, country or other defined zone, or habitat type; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.
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Fruit
In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants (also known as angiosperms) formed from the ovary after flowering.
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Fuel
A fuel is any material that can be made to react with other substances so that it releases energy as heat energy or to be used for work.
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Goat
The domestic goat (Capra aegagrus hircus) is a subspecies of goat domesticated from the wild goat of southwest Asia and Eastern Europe.
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Grape
A grape is a fruit, botanically a berry, of the deciduous woody vines of the flowering plant genus Vitis.
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Handroanthus impetiginosus
Handroanthus impetiginosus, pink ipê, pink lapacho, or pink trumpet tree is a native tree of family Bignoniaceae of the Americas, distributed from northern Mexico south to northern Argentina.
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Historical ecology
Historical ecology is a research program that focuses on the interactions between humans and their environment over long-term periods of time, typically over the course of centuries.
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Hocicudo
Oxymycterus is the genus of hocicudos.
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Human impact on the environment
Human impact on the environment or anthropogenic impact on the environment includes changes to biophysical environments and ecosystems, biodiversity, and natural resources caused directly or indirectly by humans, including global warming, environmental degradation (such as ocean acidification), mass extinction and biodiversity loss, ecological crises, and ecological collapse.
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Juazeiro
Juazeiro, formerly also known as Joazeiro, is a municipality in the state of Bahia, in the northeastern region of Brazil.
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Kaempfer's woodpecker
The Kaempfer's woodpecker (Celeus obrieni), also known as Piauí woodpecker, is a species of woodpecker from Brazil.
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Karimi's fat-tailed mouse opossum
Karimi's fat-tailed mouse opossum (Thylamys karimii) is a species of opossum in the family Didelphidae.
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Leaf
A leaf is an organ of a vascular plant and is the principal lateral appendage of the stem.
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Lear's macaw
Lear's macaw (Anodorhynchus leari), also known as the indigo macaw, is a large all-blue Brazilian parrot, a member of a large group of neotropical parrots known as macaws.
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List of plants of Caatinga vegetation of Brazil
This is a list of plants found in the wild in Caatinga vegetation of Brazil.
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Maranhão Babaçu forests
The Maranhão Babaçu forests is a tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion of north-central Brazil.
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Melipona subnitida
Melipona subnitida is a neotropical endemic bee species in the Apidae family found in the dry areas of Northeastern Brazil.
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Melon
A melon is any of various plants of the family Cucurbitaceae with sweet edible, fleshy fruit.
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Minas Gerais
Minas Gerais is a state in the north of Southeastern Brazil.
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Moustached woodcreeper
The moustached woodcreeper (Xiphocolaptes falcirostris) is a species of bird in the Dendrocolaptinae subfamily.
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Myracrodruon urundeuva
Myracrodruon urundeuva (Portuguese common names: aroeira-do-sertão, urundeúva, aroeira preta, urindeúva, arindeúva) is a timber tree, which is often used for beekeeping.
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NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research.
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Northeast Region, Brazil
The Northeast Region of Brazil (Região Nordeste do Brasil) is one of the five official and political regions of the country according to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics.
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Oryzomys
Oryzomys is a genus of semiaquatic rodents in the tribe Oryzomyini living in southern North America and far northern South America.
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Pampas
The Pampas (from the pampa, meaning "plain") are fertile South American lowlands that cover more than and include the Argentine provinces of Buenos Aires, La Pampa, Santa Fe, Entre Ríos and Córdoba; all of Uruguay; and the southernmost Brazilian State, Rio Grande do Sul.
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Pantanal
The Pantanal is a natural region encompassing the world's largest tropical wetland area.
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Papaya
The papaya (from Carib via Spanish), papaw, or pawpaw is the plant Carica papaya, one of the 22 accepted species in the genus Carica of the family Caricaceae.
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Paraíba
Paraíba (Tupi: pa'ra a'íba: "bad for navigation") is a state of Brazil.
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Pernambuco
Pernambuco is a state of Brazil, located in the Northeast region of the country.
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Petrolina
Petrolina is a city located in the southernmost point of the state of Pernambuco, in Brazil.
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Piauí
Piauí is one of the states of Brazil, located in the country's Northeast Region.
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Radiocarbon dating
Radiocarbon dating (also referred to as carbon dating or carbon-14 dating) is a method for determining the age of an object containing organic material by using the properties of radiocarbon, a radioactive isotope of carbon.
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Red-nosed mouse
The red-nosed mouse (Wiedomys pyrrhorhinos) is an arboreal rodent species from South America.
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Rhipidomys
Rhipidomys is a genus of rodents in the family Cricetidae, comprising at least 18 species of climbing mouse.
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Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro (River of January), or simply Rio, is the second-most populous municipality in Brazil and the sixth-most populous in the Americas.
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Rio Grande do Norte
Rio Grande do Norte (lit. "Great Northern River", in reference to the mouth of the Potenji River) is one of the states of Brazil, located in the northeastern region of the country, occupying the northeasternmost tip of the South American continent.
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Sao Francisco black tyrant
The Sao Francisco black tyrant, Caatinga black tyrant or Brazilian black tyrant (Knipolegus franciscanus) is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae.
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Satellite imagery
Satellite imagery (or spaceborne photography) are images of Earth or other planets collected by imaging satellites operated by governments and businesses around the world.
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São Francisco River
The São Francisco River or Rio São Francisco is a river in Brazil.
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Schefflera morototoni
Schefflera morototoni (yagrumo macho; syn. Didymopanax morototoni (Aubl.) Decne. & Planch., Didymopanax morototoni var. angustipetalum March; Panax morototoni Aublet; Sciadophyllum paniculatum Britton) is a timber tree native to southern Mexico, the Greater Antilles, Central America, and South America.
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Schinopsis brasiliensis
Schinopsis brasiliensis is a species of flowering plant in the cashew family known by the common names baraúna or braúna.
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Sergipe
Sergipe, officially State of Sergipe, is a state of Brazil.
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Sertão
The Sertão ("outback" or "backcountry") is one of the four sub-regions of the northeast of Brazil.
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Sherd
In archaeology, a sherd, or more precisely, potsherd, is commonly a historic or prehistoric fragment of pottery, although the term is occasionally used to refer to fragments of stone and glass vessels, as well.
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Slash-and-burn
Slash-and-burn agriculture, or fire–fallow cultivation, is a farming method that involves the cutting and burning of plants in a forest or woodland to create a field called a swidden.
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Spix's macaw
Spix's macaw (Cyanopsitta spixii), also known as the little blue macaw, is a macaw native to Brazil.
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Tabebuia aurea
Tabebuia aurea is a species of Tabebuia native to South America in Suriname, Brazil, eastern Bolivia, Peru, Paraguay, and northern Argentina.
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The War of the End of the World
The War of the End of the World (La guerra del fin del mundo) is a 1981 novel written by Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa.
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Thorn forest
A thorny forest is a dense, scrublike vegetation characteristic of dry subtropical and warm temperate areas with a seasonal rainfall averaging.
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Transpiration
Transpiration is the process of water movement through a plant and its evaporation from aerial parts, such as leaves, stems and flowers.
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Tropics
The tropics are a region of the Earth surrounding the Equator.
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Tupian languages
The Tupi or Tupian language family comprises some 70 languages spoken in South America, of which the best known are Tupi proper and Guarani.
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Vieira's long-tongued bat
Vieira's long-tongued bat (Xeronycteris vieirai) is a species of bat from northeastern Brazil, discovered in 2005 by Gregorin and Ditchfield.
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White-spined Atlantic spiny rat
The white-spined Atlantic spiny rat (Trinomys albispinus) is a spiny rat species endemic to Brazil.
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William Balée
William Balée (born 1954) is a professor of anthropology at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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William Denevan
William Maxfield Denevan (16 October 1931, San Diego) is professor emeritus of Geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a prominent member of the Berkeley School of Latin Americanist Geography.
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Yonenaga's Atlantic spiny rat
Yonenaga's Atlantic spiny-rat, Trinomys yonenagae, is a spiny rat species found in the rainforests of South America.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caatinga
