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Trees of the Amazon rainforest
2013-10-29 08:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Almost 400 billion trees belonging to 16,000 different species grow in the Amazon rainforest, according to scientists from the RAINFOR consortium in Peru and the UK, who participated in the recent study in Science. But half the total number of trees are thought to belong to just 227 'hyperdominant' species, among them the rubber tree, the walking palm and the ungurahui tree
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