Ecotourism in Tambopata has successfully monetized the hedonic value of wild nature in Amazonian Peru, and justifies the maintenance of intact rainforest over all alternative uses on narrow economic grounds alone.
To better understand the processes that gave rise to this pattern, and the significance of in situ diversification to the origins and maintenance of tropical rainforest diversity, we aim to determine the phylogeographic structure of a codistributed epiphytic orchid.
Comparisons with palynological records having similar span, time resolution and age control suggest that regional climate has played a central role on the establishment, composition and maintenance of temperate rainforests.
Local, natural disturbances of this sort are vital to the maintenance of the full biotic diversity of the tropical rainforest (see Sidebar: Rainforest Regeneration in Panama).
The influence of salmon-derived nutrients (SDN) is widely accepted as a potential factor in the maintenance of aquatic and terrestrial productivity in North American Coastal rainforests.
Particular emphasis has been on the maintenance of image quality and calibration as monitored using images of the Amazon Rainforest and of the RADARSAT-1 Precision Transponders (RPT).
He has complained to the Brazilian press about a 10-year legal battle to do maintenance on a highway that connects Porto Velho to Manaus, running through the Amazon rainforest.
The maintenance of indigenous peoples' traditional cultural and customary practices is connected with the conservation of the Amazon rainforest, which in turn is the most important reservoir of carbon stocks globally.
RAINFOREST FOODS -- Byron Bay, Australia.
