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Pantanal

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The Pantanal is a natural region encompassing the world's largest tropical wetland area. [1]

95 relations: Adaptation, Agriculture, Ampullariidae, Andes, Anoxic waters, Aquatic plant, Aquidauana, Barão de Melgaço, Mato Grosso, BBC, Biodiversity, Biome, Black howler, Bodoquena, Bolivia, Bonito, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, Brazilian Highlands, Bush dog, Canal, Capybara, Cattle, Cáceres, Mato Grosso, Cerrado, Chaco eagle, Chiquitano dry forests, Civilization VI, Clay, Complex system, Corumbá, Coxim, Desiccation, Detritivore, Ecology, Ecosystem, Endangered species, Fauna, Fazenda, Fish, Fish kill, Geology, Giant anteater, Giant otter, Gold mining, Gold tegu, Gran Chaco, Green iguana, Gurupí River, Hyacinth macaw, Hydrology, Hypoxia (environmental), ..., Iberá Wetlands, Indiana University, Inundation, Jaguar, John Grisham, Keystone species, Ladário, Lesser yellow-headed vulture, Maned wolf, Marsh deer, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Mato Grosso Plateau, Miranda, Mato Grosso do Sul, Natural region, Orogeny, Pantanal (TV series), Pantanal Matogrossense National Park, Paraguay, Paraguay River, Paraná River, Poconé, Ramsar Convention, Ranch, Red-footed tortoise, River, River delta, Sand, Sedimentation, Silt, South American jaguar, South American tapir, Southern crested caracara, Southern tamandua, Telenovela, Tertiary, The Nature Conservancy, The Testament (John Grisham novel), Toxin, Tributary, Twilight (novel series), Water treatment, Wetland, Yacare caiman, Yellow anaconda. Expand index (45 more) »

Adaptation

In biology, adaptation has three related meanings.

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Agriculture

Agriculture is the cultivation of land and breeding of animals and plants to provide food, fiber, medicinal plants and other products to sustain and enhance life.

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Ampullariidae

Ampullariidae, common name the apple snails, is a family of large freshwater snails, aquatic gastropod mollusks with a gill and an operculum.

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Andes

The Andes or Andean Mountains (Cordillera de los Andes) are the longest continental mountain range in the world.

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Anoxic waters

Anoxic waters are areas of sea water, fresh water, or groundwater that are depleted of dissolved oxygen and are a more severe condition of hypoxia.

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Aquatic plant

Aquatic plants are plants that have adapted to living in aquatic environments (saltwater or freshwater).

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Aquidauana

Aquidauana is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul.

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Barão de Melgaço, Mato Grosso

Barão de Melgaço is a municipality in the state of Mato Grosso in the Central-West Region of Brazil.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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Biodiversity

Biodiversity, a portmanteau of biological (life) and diversity, generally refers to the variety and variability of life on Earth.

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Biome

A biome is a community of plants and animals that have common characteristics for the environment they exist in.

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Black howler

The black howler (Alouatta caraya) (also known as black-and-gold howler) is a species of howler monkey, a large New World monkey, from northeastern Argentina, eastern Bolivia, eastern and southern Brazil, and Paraguay.

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Bodoquena

Bodoquena is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul.

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Bolivia

Bolivia (Mborivia; Buliwya; Wuliwya), officially known as the Plurinational State of Bolivia (Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia), is a landlocked country located in western-central South America.

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Bonito, Mato Grosso do Sul

Bonito is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul.

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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 Highlands

The Brazilian Highlands or Brazilian Plateau (Planalto Brasileiro) are an extensive geographical region, covering most of the eastern, southern and central portions of Brazil, in all approximately half of the country's land area, or some 4,500,000 km² (1,930,511 sq mi).

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Bush dog

The bush dog (Speothos venaticus) is a canid found in Central and South America.

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Canal

Canals, or navigations, are human-made channels, or artificial waterways, for water conveyance, or to service water transport vehicles.

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Capybara

The capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) is a mammal native to South America.

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Cattle

Cattle—colloquially cows—are the most common type of large domesticated ungulates.

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Cáceres, Mato Grosso

Cáceres is a municipality in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso.

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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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Chaco eagle

The Chaco eagle, or crowned solitary eagle (Buteogallus coronatus), Also called Aguila Coronada, Aguila de Azara in Spanish is an endangered bird of prey from eastern and central South America.

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Chiquitano dry forests

The Chiquitano dry forests is a tropical dry broadleaf forest ecoregion in Bolivia and Brazil.

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Civilization VI

Sid Meier's Civilization VI is a turn-based strategy 4X video game developed by Firaxis Games, published by 2K Games, and distributed by Take-Two Interactive.

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Clay

Clay is a finely-grained natural rock or soil material that combines one or more clay minerals with possible traces of quartz (SiO2), metal oxides (Al2O3, MgO etc.) and organic matter.

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Complex system

A complex system is a system composed of many components which may interact with each other.

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Corumbá

Corumbá is a municipality in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul, 425 km northwest of Campo Grande, the state's capital.

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Coxim

Coxim is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul.

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Desiccation

Desiccation is the state of extreme dryness, or the process of extreme drying.

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Detritivore

Detritivores, also known as detrivores, detritophages, detritus feeders, or detritus eaters, are heterotrophs that obtain nutrients by consuming detritus (decomposing plant and animal parts as well as feces).

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Ecology

Ecology (from οἶκος, "house", or "environment"; -λογία, "study of") is the branch of biology which studies the interactions among organisms and their environment.

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Ecosystem

An ecosystem is a community made up of living organisms and nonliving components such as air, water, and mineral soil.

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Endangered species

An endangered species is a species which has been categorized as very likely to become extinct.

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Fauna

Fauna is all of the animal life of any particular region or time.

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Fazenda

A fazenda is a plantation found throughout Brazil; during the colonial period (16th - 18th centuries) they were concentrated primarily in the northeastern region, where (sugar) was produced, expanding during the 19th century in the southeastern region to coffee production.

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Fish

Fish are gill-bearing aquatic craniate animals that lack limbs with digits.

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Fish kill

The term fish kill, known also as fish die-off, refers to a localized die-off of fish populations which may also be associated with more generalized mortality of aquatic life.

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Geology

Geology (from the Ancient Greek γῆ, gē, i.e. "earth" and -λoγία, -logia, i.e. "study of, discourse") is an earth science concerned with the solid Earth, the rocks of which it is composed, and the processes by which they change over time.

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Giant anteater

The giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla), also known as the ant bear, is a large insectivorous mammal native to Central and South America.

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Giant otter

The giant otter or giant river otter (Pteronura brasiliensis) is a South American carnivorous mammal.

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Gold mining

Gold mining is the resource extraction of gold by mining.

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Gold tegu

The gold tegu, also known as golden tegu, common tegu, black tegu, Colombian tegu, and tiger lizard (on Trinidad), is a species of tegu.

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Gran Chaco

The Gran Chaco or Dry Chaco is a sparsely populated, hot and semi-arid lowland natural region of the Río de la Plata basin, divided among eastern Bolivia, western Paraguay, northern Argentina and a portion of the Brazilian states of Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul, where it is connected with the Pantanal region.

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Green iguana

The green iguana (Iguana iguana), also known as the American iguana, is a large, arboreal, mostly herbivorous species of lizard of the genus Iguana.

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Gurupí River

The Gurupí River is a river in north-central Brazil which forms the boundary between Maranhão and Pará states.

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Hyacinth macaw

The hyacinth macaw (Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus), or hyacinthine macaw, is a parrot native to central and eastern South America.

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Hydrology

Hydrology is the scientific study of the movement, distribution, and quality of water on Earth and other planets, including the water cycle, water resources and environmental watershed sustainability.

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Hypoxia (environmental)

Hypoxia refers to low oxygen conditions.

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Iberá Wetlands

The Iberá Wetlands (Esteros del Iberá, from Guaraní ý berá: "bright water") are a mix of swamps, bogs, stagnant lakes, lagoons, natural slough and courses of water in the center and center-north of the.

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Indiana University

Indiana University (IU) is a multi-campus public university system in the state of Indiana, United States.

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Inundation

Inundation (from the Latin inundatio, flood) is both the act of intentionally flooding land that would otherwise remain dry, for military, agricultural, or river-management purposes, and the result of such an act.

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Jaguar

The jaguar (Panthera onca) is a wild cat species and the only extant member of the genus Panthera native to the Americas.

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John Grisham

John Ray Grisham Jr. (born February 8, 1955).

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Keystone species

A keystone species is a species that has a disproportionately large effect on its environment relative to its abundance.

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Ladário

Ladário is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul.

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Lesser yellow-headed vulture

The lesser yellow-headed vulture (Cathartes burrovianus) also known as the savannah vulture, is a species of bird in the New World vulture family Cathartidae.

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Maned wolf

The maned wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus) is the largest canid of South America.

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Marsh deer

The marsh deer (Blastocerus dichotomus) is the largest deer species from South America reaching a length of and a shoulder height of.

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Mato Grosso

Mato Grosso (– lit. "Thick Bushes") is one of the states of Brazil, the third-largest by area, located in the western part of the country.

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Mato Grosso do Sul

Mato Grosso do Sul is one of the Midwestern states of Brazil.

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Mato Grosso Plateau

The Mato Grosso Plateau (Planalto do Mato Grosso) is a plateau in central Brazil occupying most of the state of Mato Grosso.

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Miranda, Mato Grosso do Sul

Miranda is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, named for its location on the river by the same name.

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Natural region

A natural region is a basic geographic unit.

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Orogeny

An orogeny is an event that leads to a large structural deformation of the Earth's lithosphere (crust and uppermost mantle) due to the interaction between plate tectonics.

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Pantanal (TV series)

Pantanal is a Brazilian telenovela which originally aired from March 27, 1990 to December 10, 1990 at 9 P.M. on Rede Manchete.

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Pantanal Matogrossense National Park

The Pantanal Matogrossense National Park (Parque Nacional do Pantanal Matogrossense) is a national park in the states of Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil.

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Paraguay

Paraguay (Paraguái), officially the Republic of Paraguay (República del Paraguay; Tetã Paraguái), is a landlocked country in central South America, bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to the east and northeast, and Bolivia to the northwest.

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Paraguay River

The Paraguay River (Río Paraguay in Spanish, Rio Paraguai in Portuguese, Ysyry Paraguái in Guarani) is a major river in south-central South America, running through Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay and Argentina.

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Paraná River

The Paraná River (Río Paraná, Rio Paraná, Ysyry Parana) is a river in south Central South America, running through Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina for some.

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Poconé

Poconé is a municipality in the state of Mato Grosso in the Central-West Region of Brazil.

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Ramsar Convention

The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance especially as Waterfowl Habitat is an international treaty for the conservation and sustainable use of wetlands.

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Ranch

A ranch is an area of land, including various structures, given primarily to the practice of ranching, the practice of raising grazing livestock such as cattle or sheep for meat or wool.

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Red-footed tortoise

The red-footed tortoise (Chelonoidis carbonarius) is a species of tortoises from northern South America.

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River

A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river.

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River delta

A river delta is a landform that forms from deposition of sediment carried by a river as the flow leaves its mouth and enters slower-moving or stagnant water.

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Sand

Sand is a naturally occurring granular material composed of finely divided rock and mineral particles.

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Sedimentation

Sedimentation is the tendency for particles in suspension to settle out of the fluid in which they are entrained and come to rest against a barrier.

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Silt

Silt is granular material of a size between sand and clay, whose mineral origin is quartz and feldspar.

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South American jaguar

The South American jaguar is a population of the jaguar in South America.

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South American tapir

The South American tapir (Tapirus terrestris), also commonly called the Brazilian tapir (from the Tupi tapi'ira), the lowland tapir, in Portuguese anta, and in Quechua sachavaca, is one of five species in the tapir family, along with the mountain tapir, the Malayan tapir, Baird's tapir, and the kabomani tapir.

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Southern crested caracara

The southern crested caracara (Caracara plancus), also known as the southern caracara or carancho, is a bird of prey in the family Falconidae.

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Southern tamandua

The southern tamandua (Tamandua tetradactyla), also called the collared anteater or lesser anteater, is a species of anteater from South America.

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Telenovela

A telenovela is a type of limited-run television serial drama or soap opera produced primarily in Latin America.

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Tertiary

Tertiary is the former term for the geologic period from 65 million to 2.58 million years ago, a timespan that occurs between the superseded Secondary period and the Quaternary.

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The Nature Conservancy

The Nature Conservancy is a charitable environmental organization, headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, United States.

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The Testament (John Grisham novel)

The Testament is an adventure story by American author John Grisham.

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Toxin

A toxin (from toxikon) is a poisonous substance produced within living cells or organisms; synthetic toxicants created by artificial processes are thus excluded.

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Tributary

A tributary or affluent is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream or main stem (or parent) river or a lake.

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Twilight (novel series)

Twilight is a series of four vampire-themed fantasy romance novels by American author Stephenie Meyer.

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Water treatment

Water treatment is any process that improves the quality of water to make it more acceptable for a specific end-use.

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Wetland

A wetland is a land area that is saturated with water, either permanently or seasonally, such that it takes on the characteristics of a distinct ecosystem.

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Yacare caiman

The yacare caiman (Caiman yacare, jacaré in Portuguese) is a species of caiman found in central South America, including northeastern Argentina, Uruguay, southeastern Peru, eastern Bolivia, central/southwest Brazil, and the rivers of Paraguay.

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Yellow anaconda

The yellow anaconda (Eunectes notaeus), also known as the Paraguayan anacondaMehrtens JM.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantanal

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