Sentence examples for flood forest from inspiring English sources

Operated by a couple from São Paulo, it is on a bluff above the Rio Negro, within sight of the Anavilhanas Ecological Station, a government nature reserve that encompasses the world's largest riverine archipelago, with more than 400 islands and hundreds of lakes and igapós, an indigenous word that means flood forest.

The ATC's recognition policy for "2000 Milers" gives equal recognition to thru-hikers and section-hikers, operates on the honor system, and recognizes blue-blazed trails or officially required roadwalks as substitutes for the official, white-blazed route during an emergency such as a flood, forest fire, or impending storm on an exposed, high-elevation stretch.

One important location where avian transmission might occur is the inner Niger Delta in Mali, a wetland of 3 000 000 hectares with flood plains, lakes, river branches, and small pockets of flood forest that plays an extremely important role in bird migration throughout Africa.

Reservoirs often flood forests, which give off methane and other greenhouse gases as they decompose.

Though activists have long complained about such giant dams, which flood forests and displace legions of people, Asia's politicians remain defiant.

As sea levels rise, coasts flood, forests burn and croplands turn into deserts, hundreds of millions of people will be on the move.

Cuvier's dwarf caiman is a freshwater species and is found in forested riverine habitats and areas of flooded forest around lakes.

Soil acidity is higher in the no-flood zones, which could be attributed to the acidifying input of the litter, which is more abundant and better formed (LFH layers) in the no-flood forest zones.

…whitewater flooded forest known as varzea.

The boardwalk led us deeper into the flooded forest.

It occurs in tall forest, perhaps particularly flooded forest, in Amazonian Ecuador and Peru and immediately adjacent Colombia and Brazil.