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Colombia is one of seventeen megadiverse countries in the world. [7] The country in northwestern South America contains 311 types of coastal and continental ecosystems. [1] As of the beginning of 2021, a total of between 63,000 and 71,000 species are registered in the country, [8] [5] with 8803 endemic species, representing near the 14% of the total registered species. [6]
Colonnelo, Giuseppe. (2004): Las planicies deltaicas del río Orinocoy el golfo de Paria: aspectos físicos y vegetación. En: Lasso, Carlos A. Alfonso, Leanne E., Flores, Ana Liz. y Love, Greg. (Editores). Evalución rápida de la biodiversidad y aspectos sociales de los ecosistemas acuáticos del delta del río Orinocoy goldo de Paria. Venezuela.
CONABIO (2009). Sistema de Información sobre Especies Invasoras. Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad. Revisado en: www.biodiversidad.gob.mx; Conabio. (2015). Sistema de información sobre especies invasoras en México. Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad.
The Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad (CONABIO; English: National Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity) is a permanent inter-ministerial commission of the Federal Mexican government, created in 1992.
Selva tropical de la Biosfera de rio plátano The major ecosystems include mangrove and freshwater swamps and marshes, sedge prairie, pine savanna, and gallery forest. There is a diverse amount of flora, estimated at over 2,000 species of vascular plants, [ 4 ] although little has been written about it because many species are new or undiscovered.
According to the National Biodiversity Information System of Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad (CONABIO) in Volcán Tacaná Biosphere Reserve there are over 2,455 plant and animal species from which 185 are in at risk category and 48 are exotics. [3] [4]
The Mache-Chindul Ecological Reserve (Spanish: Reserva Ecológica Mache-Chindul) is an ecological reserve in the provinces of Esmeraldas and Manabí, Ecuador.It protects a mountainous area in the transition from tropical rain forest in the north to dry forest in the south.
The dry forest area of southwestern Puerto Rico protected under the jurisdiction of the Guánica Dry Forest was first established in 1919 as a forest reserve. The United Nations recognized the ecological value of the forest in 1981 when it was designated a Biosphere Reserve, the second in Puerto Rico after El Yunque National Forest (then called the Caribbean National Forest).