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Western Amazon Swamp Forest Macrogroup | NatureServe Biotics 2019
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Name: Western Amazon Swamp Forest Macrogroup
Reference: NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description: This macrogroup includes permanently inundated forests of the western Amazon Basin on flat to depressed topography with continuous water input from runoff of adjacent higher terrain, precipitation, slow draining of blackwater meandering rivers, and some filtration of nearby whitewater rivers. It is also found surrounding permanent or seasonal waterbodies. Formation of peat is common. It is particularly well-developed in northeastern Peru, but is distributed in Colombia, Ecuador and Brazil, west of the Jurua River. The dominant species is <i>Mauritia flexuosa</i> which can form monodominant forests or occur in association with <i>Euterpe oleracea, Geonoma acaulis, Oenocarpus mapora, Scheleea brachyclada, Mauritiella aculeata, Virola surinamensis, Virola pavonis, Tabernaemontana siphilitica, Croton tessmannii, Symphonia globulifera, Parkia inundabilis</i>, or <i>Tabebuia insignis</i>. 
Accession Code: urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:40887-{149758A6-3106-4F0F-8CD0-77EAE9B0A9E2}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 17-Apr-2014 to: ongoing
      Names:   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.884771 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Code: M634
  Scientific: Western Amazon Swamp Forest Macrogroup