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Brazil's tropical soils produce almost 210 million tons of grain crops per year, [7] from about 70 million hectares of crops. [8] The country also has the 5th largest arable land area in the world. [9] Burning also is used traditionally to remove tall, dry, and nutrient-poor grass from pasture at the end of the dry season. [1]
Boundaries of Brazil's jurisdictional waters, including the latest continental shelf claims. Brazil's jurisdictional waters (Portuguese: águas jurisdicionais brasileiras, AJB), also known as the Blue Amazon (Amazônia Azul), [a] are the riverine and oceanic spaces over which Brazil exerts some degree of jurisdiction over activities, persons, installations and natural resources through the ...
The continental shelf is smooth and flat, with the bottom mostly sand and mud. Overfishing is a problem, but marine life in recent years has benefited from measures such as a 2018 ban on motorized shrimp trawler fishing within 12 miles of the Rio Grande do Sul coast.
The warm North Brazil Current moves east-to-west across the river's outlet, carrying turbid, fresh water to the northwest towards the Caribbean Sea. The Amazonia is one of two ecoregions (the other being the Guianan marine ecoregion) in the North Brazil Shelf province, [2] a large marine ecosystem (LME). It is thus part of the Tropical Atlantic ...
For Brazil, this could harm its relations with developing states with which it seeks closer commercial and diplomatic ties, particularly with landlocked or geographically disadvantaged states. [41] [42] The continental shelf constists of seabed and subsoil, excluding the overlying water column. The waters are under a distinct legal regime.
Japurá–Solimões–Negro moist forests (Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela) Juruá–Purus moist forests ; Madeira–Tapajós moist forests (Bolivia, Brazil) Marajó várzea ; Maranhão Babaçu forests ; Mato Grosso tropical dry forests (Brazil, Bolivia) Monte Alegre várzea ; Negro–Branco moist forests (Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela)
Gurupa várzea (Brazil) Iquitos várzea (Bolivia, Brazil, Peru) Japurá–Solimões–Negro moist forests (Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela) Juruá–Purus moist forests (Brazil) Madeira–Tapajós moist forests (Bolivia, Brazil) Marajó várzea (Brazil) Maranhão Babaçu forests (Brazil) Mato Grosso tropical dry forests (Brazil) Monte Alegre ...
Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest threatens many species of tree frogs, which are very sensitive to environmental changes (pictured: giant leaf frog) A giant, bundled liana in western Brazil. Wet tropical forests are the most species-rich biome, and tropical forests in the Americas are consistently more species rich than the wet forests in ...