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ForestHarvest - Overseas case study: Brazil nuts
Recruitment of Brazil nut trees is naturally very slow. The distribution of this species across the Amazon appears ... . Article: The Brazil nut industry Research and development There is some concern that harvesting pressure is having a negative impact on the recruitment of new Brazil nut trees. Scientists are looking ...
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Global Trees Campaign - FAQ's
Many tropical trees depend on specialist pollinators, such as bats and birds, which disappear when forests are cleared. Brazil nut trees left standing when a forest is felled produce poor seed crops due to pollination failure. Isolated mature trees are easily toppled by wind when ...
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Database entry for Brazil Nut - Bertholletia excelsa - Brazil Nut - Bertholletia excelsa - Brazil Nut - Bertholletia excelsa
Brazil nuts, each within its own individual shell. Mature Brazil nut trees can produce approximately 300 or more of these fruit pods annually. Today, the monetary value of exporting Brazil nuts ... alone imports more than 9 metric tons of Brazil nuts annually. Virtually all Brazil nut production comes from wild forest trees and wild-harvesting. The trees grow very slowly, taking as long as ...
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San Diego Zoo's Animal Bytes: Agouti
Brazil nut. • Ew! What's that smell? The coarse hair on an agouti ... their teeth are twisted in a way that make them much stronger. Brazil nuts may be hard for us to crack, but they pose no ... vital role in the survival of Brazil nut trees and the people who depend on the trees in remote areas of South America. Brazil nuts bring in millions of ...
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RCF: Poraqueiba sericea
River town of Tamshiyacu is famous for its extensive groves of umarí trees. There, it is often interplanted with Brazil nut, and used for charcoal when the tree is old and fruit production ...
www.rainforestconservation.org

Rainforest Biogeography
Brazil) is a relatively open forest in terms of its tree cover, but is almost smothered by huge numbers of vines growing on, over and between the trees ... regions, this forest type is important for the Brazil-nut trees (Bertholletia excelsia) which are also present. Although there ... Rainforest Along the Atlantic coastal strip of south-eastern Brazil, the moist maritime air gives enough rainfall to ...
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Trees of the University of Florida
University of Florida campus. Approximately 1200 individual trees in ... -seed India to Nepal 97 Macadamia integrifolia * Queensland Nut Australia 98 Persea americana Avocado tropical America 99 ... Podocarpus tropical Africa 103 Schinus terebinthifolius Brazilian Pepper-tree Brazil 104 Cupressus lusitanica * Mexican Cypress tropical America 105 Cupressus ...
www.flmnh.ufl.edu

Frequently Asked Questions
The largest producer and exporter is Brazil, followed by Colombia, Vietnam, Indonesia, and Mexico. Around the globe, the annual consumption of coffee ... , they usually cultivate food alongside cash crops, and intercrop other plants such as banana and nut trees which provide food security as well as additional sources of income. In the 1970s and ...
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coffeeFAQ.html
The largest producer and exporter is Brazil, followed by Colombia, Vietnam, Indonesia, and Mexico. Around the globe, the annual consumption of coffee ... , they usually cultivate food alongside cash crops, and intercrop other plants such as banana and nut trees which provide food security as well as additional sources of income. In the 1970s and ...
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