(III)-THE ATLANTIC FOREST: BIODIVERSITY

One of the remarkable features of the Atlantic Forest is its structural diversity and particularly the richness in species and life-form. Broadly speaking this is a biogeographical reality: the increasing numbers of species with decreasing degrees of latitude.
In the state of Espírito Santo, Southeastern Brazil, 476 species of trees per hectare were found in a Biological Reserve.
According to Conservation International, of the 20,000 plant species, 40% are endemic in the Atlantic Forest.
Among animals there are over 930 species of birds, over 260 species of mammals (14 species of primate are endemic to the Atlantic Forest), more than 300 species of reptiles and more than 450 species of amphibians. In rivers, streams, and lakes over 350 fishes have been recorded.
In the video, we can see a big specimen of Bombax gracilipes a Bombacaceae with typical buttresses which help to keep the tree upright.

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Education

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• Diversity
• of
• organisms;
• tropical
• forest;
• endemic
• species;
• rain
• primates