Table 5 |
||||
|
Terrestrial ecological systems having less than 2% protection in the study area |
||||
|
Ecological system |
Area (ha) |
Percent of study Area |
Area protected (ha) |
Percent protected |
|
|
||||
|
Complex of non-alkaline savannas of the Beni transitional to the Cerrado |
2,221,743 |
1.8 |
459 |
0 |
|
Cerrado complex of the northern Beni |
1,766,905 |
1.4 |
0 |
0 |
|
Western Amazon semideciduous azonal forest |
1,276,552 |
1.0 |
14,533 |
1 |
|
Complex of non-alkaline savannas of the Beni |
585,143 |
0.5 |
0 |
0 |
|
Central-south Amazon Palm dominated forest |
578,331 |
0.5 |
0 |
0 |
|
Chiquitania and Beni seasonally flooded herbaceous oligotrophic savanna |
506,966 |
0.4 |
0 |
0 |
|
Beni seasonally flooded palm grove and savanna of the alkaline flatlands |
226,672 |
0.2 |
6 |
0 |
|
Chiquitania and Beni "Cerradão" |
214,452 |
0.2 |
0 |
< 1 |
|
Beni seasonally flooded herbaceous mesotrophic savanna |
208,539 |
0.2 |
217 |
< 1 |
|
Montane interandean xeric forest and shrubland of the Yungas |
205,749 |
0.2 |
40 |
< 1 |
|
Interandean xeric scrub of the Yungas |
152,396 |
0.1 |
0 |
0 |
|
Beni and Chiquitania open hydrophytic savanna |
145,912 |
0.1 |
0 |
0 |
|
Lower montane xeric forest and shrubland of the northern Yungas |
137,919 |
0.1 |
101 |
< 1 |
|
Beni mixed-water riparian vegetation and forests complex |
120,637 |
0.1 |
0 |
0 |
|
Northern Yungas dry submontane complex |
95,189 |
0.1 |
0 |
0 |
|
Cerrado hydrophytic savannah with termite mounds |
63,280 |
0.1 |
0 |
0 |
|
Chiquitania and Beni semideciduous subhumid forest |
48,789 |
< 0.1 |
0 |
0 |
|
Beni clear and dark-water riparian forests and vegetation complex |
35,684 |
< 0.1 |
0 |
0 |
|
Central-south Amazon ridges lithomorphic scrub |
21,028 |
< 0.1 |
0 |
0 |
|
Northern Yungas dry montane and submontane complex |
19,602 |
< 0.1 |
0 |
0 |
|
Yungas ridge pluviseasonal forest |
16,994 |
< 0.1 |
325 |
1 |
|
Montane lithomorphic vegetation of the Yungas |
10,296 |
< 0.1 |
0 |
0 |
|
Western Beni seasonally flooded thorn forest of the alkaline flatlands |
10,009 |
< 0.1 |
0 |
0 |
|
Upper montane pluvial Polylepis forest of the Yungas |
8423 |
< 0.1 |
73 |
1 |
|
|
||||
|
Swenson et al. BMC Ecology 2012 12:1 doi:10.1186/1472-6785-12-1 |
||||
