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Savannah-like areas exist in the drier regions nearer the Andes. Aquatic plants thrive in the wetlands of Argentina. In central Argentina the humid pampas are a true tallgrass prairie ecosystem. [1] In Argentina forest cover is around 10% of the total land area, equivalent to 28,573,000 hectares (ha) of forest in 2020, down from 35,204,000 ha ...
The following is a list of ecoregions in Argentina defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests. Magellanic subpolar forests; Valdivian temperate forests; Temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands. Argentine Espinal; Argentine Monte; Humid Pampas; Patagonian grasslands; Patagonian steppe; Semi-arid ...
The habitat in the settled areas has been greatly changed, with trees cleared for use as fuel and lumber and to make way for agriculture and mineral exploitation. 580,000 square kilometres (220,000 sq mi) of the ecoregion has been affected by erosion caused by deforestation and excessive grazing by sheep, goats and cattle.
Argentina, [C] officially the Argentine Republic, [A] [D] is a country in the southern half of South America.It covers an area of 2,780,085 km 2 (1,073,397 sq mi), [B] making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, the fourth-largest country in the Americas, and the eighth-largest country in the world.
Northwest Argentina is predominantly dry and hot and classified as subtropical. [4] Owing to its rugged topography, the region is climatically diverse, depending on the elevation, temperature and distribution of precipitation. [5] Consequentially, the vegetation will differ at these different climate types. [6]
Destruction of its habitat presents nowadays the major threat to marsh deer. The Yacyretá Dam altered an area in which several hundred individuals lived and the draining of marshes for farmland and cattle farming threaten hundreds of hectares every year in Argentina and Brazil.
[4] [22] Another vulnerable habitat where it has been introduced is the Iguazu River at the Argentina–Brazil border. [23] Odontesthes hatcheri replaces O. bonariensis in the southern half of Argentina (roughly equalling Patagonia ), [ 6 ] but the latter has been translocated to certain southern regions where the two hybridize.
The Pampas (from the Quechua: pampa, meaning "plain"), also known as the Pampas Plain, are fertile South American low grasslands that cover more than 1,200,000 square kilometres (460,000 sq mi) and include the Argentine provinces of Buenos Aires, La Pampa, Santa Fe, Entre Ríos, and Córdoba; all of Uruguay; and Brazil's southernmost state, Rio Grande do Sul.