Igapó forest

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Igapó in the state of Amazonas (Brazil)

The alluvial forest - the ecosystem of the evergreen tropical rainforest , which is regularly flooded in the floodplains along the low-nutrient, humic acid -rich black water rivers of the Amazon and in the delta of the Amazon River - is called the Igapó forest or Igapó for short . The herb layer is only slightly developed because of the long-lasting flooding. In Igapó the trees are lower than in the non-flooded Terra Firme forests or the Várzea forests in the floodplain of the white water rivers .

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  1. ↑ Várzea and Igapó in Axel Borsdorf and Hannes Hoffert: Natural Spaces Latin America , Institute for Geography at the University of Innsbruck, accessed on May 21, 2009