Amazon dam impacts underestimated due to overlooked vine growth: study

Mongabay
Dec 20, 2017, 5:49 pm185 pts
One of over 3,500 islands created by the Balbina mega-dam in the Brazilian Amazon. A new study has found that while tree communities degrade due to their isolation, liana communities are “remarkably robust to the negative impacts of landscape-scale habitat fragmentation caused by reservoir creation.” Photo…

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