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	Caatinga -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Caatinga is in the northeastern part of (The largest Latin American country and the largest Portuguese speaking country in the world; located in the central and northeastern part of South America; world's leading coffee exporter) Brazil.
		The caatinga is closest to the larger cities of (Click link for more info and facts about Fortaleza) Fortaleza, (A port city of northeastern Brazil on the Atlantic) Recife and (A republic on the Pacific coast of Central America) Salvador.
		The Caatinga (A flat grassland in tropical or subtropical regions) savanna is areas with some trees and some scrub.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ca/caatinga.htm (1029 words)

	Caatinga stylo - A summer legume for clay soils in the subtropics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Caatinga stylo (Stylosanthes seabrana) is a new summer legume for clay soils in the tropics and subtropics.
		Caatinga stylo will grow on a range of soils, and is recommended for clay loams to heavy cracking clays; where other stylos are not suited.
		Caatinga stylo is suited to the summer-dominant rainfall of tropical and subtropical regions with 550—1000 mm average rainfall.
	www.dpi.qld.gov.au /beef/8270.html (1251 words)

	Caatinga (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Biome "Caatinga", which in the native indian language tupi-guarani means White Forest, is located on Brazil´s Northeast coast between the biomes Atlantic Rainforest and Cerrado (see map).
		The Caatinga scrubland is the largest dry forest region in South America and characterized by a semi - arid climate, low and unregular rainfall, fertile soils and an apparently dry vegetation.
		The biodiversity of Caatinga is made up of at least 1,200 species of vascular plants, at least 185 fish species, 44 lizards, 9 amphisbaenians, 47 snakes, 4 turtles, 3 crocodylia, 49 amphibians, 350 birds, and 80 mammals.
	www.brazadv.com /eco_adventure_tours/caatinga.htm (339 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Caatinga (NT1304)
		Caatinga is the largest dry forest region in South America and certainly one of the richest dry forests in the world.
		Botanists have recognized that the caatinga vegetation is so heterogeneous and diverse that one could correctly say that there is not one single caatinga vegetation, but several distinctive caatingas.
		Caatinga types range from low shrubby caatinga (up to 1 m tall) associated with shallow sandy soils and a level or gently undulating surface to tall caatinga forest (up to 25 to 30 m tall) associated with eutrophic soils derived from basic rocks.
	www.worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/nt/nt1304_full.html (984 words)

	Ecology: Responses of juvenile trees to above- and belowground competition in nutrient-starved Amazonian rain forest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Caatinga is found on seasonally waterlogged humus-rich white-sand soils and is never used to grow crops.
		The caatingas at La Esmeralda are developed on albic arenosols, characterized by a layer of humus-rich sand (mean loss on ignition = 21%) [approximately]40 cm thick, overlying a bleached white-sand E horizon in which there are very few fine roots.
		It is probably safe to conclude that the caatingas studied, [approximately]3 km from the village but totally useless for cultivation, have been little influenced by human activity.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2120/is_n3_v79/ai_20608551 (1452 words)

	Giacometti Kids - Ecosystems: Caatinga (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Caatinga encompasses an area of approximately 835,000 square kilometers in the northeastern region of Brazil and includes parts of the states of Piauí, Ceará;, Rio Grande do Norte, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Sergipe, Bahia and the north of Minas Gerais.
		Caatinga soils are very shallow, rocky and alkaline and do not store the rain that falls.
		The Caatinga's native vegetation is adapted to these soil and climate conditions: the leaves are small or modified into thorns; some plants have roots practically on the soils surface to absorb even small amounts of rain; many species have leaves that fall during the dry season.
	www.giacometti.org.br /kids/htm/e_eco_caatinga.htm (292 words)

	CPD: South America, Site SA19, Caatinga of North-eastern Brazil, Brazil
		The "caatinga", the north-eastern floristic province of Brazil (Andrade-Lima 1981), constitutes one of three arid nuclei in South America, together with the Guajira Peninsula along the Caribbean coast of Colombia and Venezuela, and the dry belt that extends from Argentina through Chile and Peru into Ecuador (Ab'Sáber 1980).
		The caatinga as delimited in Map 55 does not correspond to a single type of vegetation, but is a broad mosaic of types.
		General characteristics of the caatinga elements include total loss of leaves during the dry season, small and firm (xeric) leaves, intense branching of the trees from the base (giving them a shrubby appearance) and the presence of succulent and crassulaceous species (Romariz 1974).
	www.nmnh.si.edu /botany/projects/cpd/sa/sa19.htm (2132 words)

	Brazil - Caatinga
		The Caatinga is a semi-arid scrub forest situated in the northeast of Brazil.
		The Caatinga occupies 11% of the Brazilian territory stretching across 300,000 square miles of the subequatorial zone.
		The Caatinga is one of the most populated semi-arid regions in the world and its human occupation dates back to pre-historic times.
	nature.org /wherewework/southamerica/brazil/work/art5081.html (246 words)

	Caatinga - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The name "Caatinga" is a Tupi word meaning "white forest" or "white vegetation" (kaa = forest, vegetation, tínga = white).
		This reduction may have contributed to the endangerment of the Spix's Macaw (cyanopsitta spixii).
		Inhabitants plant fruits in the fertile soil to process and eat, sell and export.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Caatinga (879 words)

	Caatinga vegetation dynamics under various grazing intensities by steers in the semi-arid Northeast, Brazil by Severino ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Caatinga vegetation dynamics under various grazing intensities by steers in the semi-arid Northeast, Brazil by Severino G. De Albuquerque
		Caatinga vegetation dynamics under various grazing intensities by steers in the semi-arid Northeast, Brazil
		The effects of cattle grazing were evaluated on range dynamics of the Caatinga which is a deciduous dry woodland, covering most of the semi-arid Brazilian Northeast.
	uvalde.tamu.edu /jrm/may99/albuq.htm (381 words)

	Caatinga (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		One of the most populated semiarid regions in the world, the Caatinga is so altered that only a few ecologically important examples of natural habitat remain.
		Caatinga is the natural vegetation in the sertao region of the northeastern part of Brazil.
		The Caatinga occupies 10 per cent of the Brazilian territory, reaching areas in the states of Ceará;, Rio Grande do Norte, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Sergipe, Alagoas, Bahia, Piauí and Minas Gerais.
	www.andetur.com.br /us/brazil/projects/reservasernativo/caatinga.htm (1078 words)

	Stylosanthes seabrana
		Caatinga stylo originates from Bahia, Brazil, between 9-13 °S and 40-46 °W. It has been introduced to other tropical countries, and has been widely sown in northern Australia (Edye and Maass 1997).
		Caatinga stylo is a hardy, drought, frost and anthracnose tolerant perennial pasture legume.
		Caatinga stylo is adapted to altitudes of 400-1050 m in regions with 400-1190 mm annual rainfall and a 2-7 month dry season.
	www.fao.org /ag/AGP/AGPC/doc/Gbase/DATA/Pf000496.HTM (391 words)

	Memórias on line
		In this state, Jequié and Jitaúna, important districts of AVL and ACL are respectively in areas of caatinga and Atlantic Forest, occupying, in part, transition areas of both types of vegetation.
		Therefore, despite being geographically close, the area of the city of Jequié basically has a caatinga vegetation, whilst in Jitaúna, the vegetation characteristics are distinct, being of mainly tropical rain forest, included in the domains of the Atlantic Forest.
		The study of the horizontal stratification of the sand fly fauna in a transition area between caatinga and tropical rain forest is of great importance for the understanding of the ecoepidemiology of leishmaniases.
	memorias.ioc.fiocruz.br /986/4786.html (843 words)

	New Agriculturist: Developments - Collaboration and communication in the 'caatinga' of Brazil
		During eight or nine months of the year, this scrub is almost entirely without leaves and the silvery bark of the branches and trunks are all that you see (Caatinga means 'white forest' in the native tupi-guarani language).
		Despite this inhospitable appearance, caatinga forest is rich in species many of which have still to be scientifically documented.
		Whilst data on the rich biodiversity of the caatinga is being collated for the benefit of future generations, poor rural communities are already benefiting from knowledge gathered elsewhere in the region or beyond to unlock the potential of at least a few of the plants growing in the region.
	www.new-agri.co.uk /00-2/develop/dev04.html (1037 words)

	BRAZIL FOR GRINGOS: CAATINGA
		Website is assigned to all "gringos" (word we use to foreigners here), telling a bit of this country and a bit of a brazilian girl´s life...
		Caatinga is a vegetation type that consists mainly of open shrubs that are resistant to drought.
		Caatinga is in the northeastern part of Brazil and covers the northeast portion lying upon eight provinces of Brazil near the east coast by the Atlantic ocean:Piauí, Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Sergipe and Bahia.
	brazilforgringos.blogspot.com /2005/04/caatinga.html (795 words)

	Brasil - Caatinga
		Atualmente, a Caatinga encontra-se tão alterada que apenas alguns poucos remanescentes de seu hábitat natural apresentando alguma importância ecológica ainda existem.
		A TNC é a única organização internacional que atualmente trabalha na Caatinga.
		A Associação Caatinga trabalha com mais de 40 pequenas comunidades em uma região conhecida como Serra das Almas, inspirando as gerações mais novas a criar uma cooperativa e a desenvolver um projeto agro-florestal no entorno da Reserva da Serra da Almas.
	nature.org /wherewework/southamerica/brasil/work/art13080.html (250 words)

	Background: The Caatinga Program (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Efforts to safeguard the Caatinga are in keeping with The Nature Conservancy’s goal to preserve plants, animals and natural communities that represent the diversity of life on earth and also perfectly represent SC Johnson’s long-term commitment to the environment in which it operates.
		The Caatinga has been designated as a high priority ecoregion by the international conservation community because it exists only in northeastern Brazil and a number of its species are rapidly approaching extinction.
		An important contribution of The Nature Conservancy and the SC Johnson partnership is developing a solid scientific understanding of the flora, fauna and unique ecological processes of this ecoregion, which will enable future generations to plan carefully and deliberately to protect, conserve and appropriately use its vast and unique resources.
	www.scjcarnauba.com /media/back95.htm (816 words)

	Better Pastures for the Tropics - Stylo, Caatinga
		Caatinga stylos are intermediate in shape and growth between the shrubby and Caribbean types, and will complement the shrubby stylos on medium fertility soils in the subtropical regions too cold for Caribbean stylo.
		The Caatinga stylos will grow in 500-1000 mm rainfall country and on heavier soils than the other stylos.
		The Caatinga stylos have a highly specific Rhizobium requirement, and must be inoculated.
	www.tropicalgrasslands.asn.au /pastures/caatinga.htm (206 words)

	Bioline International Official Site (site up-dated regularly)
		The Brazilian caatinga, as well as the cerrado, are endemic areas for Chagas disease, and the two species mentioned as domestic are important vectors of T.
		brasiliensis is the predominant domestic vector of Chagas disease in the arid caatinga of the Northeastern region of Brazil (Lent & Wygodzinsky 1979, Zeledón & Rabinovich 1981, Schofield 1994).
		Our results, based on the analysis of antennae of the three pairs of species which inhabit the Brazilian cerrado and caatinga, showed significant differences in those species that develop their life cycle in different habitats.
	www.bioline.org.br /request?oc02245 (2370 words)

	Euphorbia phosphorea article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In the chapter two of "Os Sertões", Euclides of Cunha describes the difficulties of the battalion in crossing an area of dense caatinga near the village of Juetê.
		This species inhabits dry, exposed rocky hills and gravelly plains, within the vegetation type known as caatinga, a xerophytic vegetation defined as being a dry-deciduous thorny, low forest or scrub formation, composed of small trees, shrubs and subshrubs of entangled and usually spiny branches, that occur throughout the semiarid regions of the northeastern of Brazil.
		The plants form a small trunk when growing amidst the caatinga, but they branch from the ground level when growing as a rupicolous.
	www.fgas.de /epa.htm (3292 words)

	Spix's Macaw
		Areas with similar habitats to the Curaça as well as places where there was information of probable presence of the Spix’s Macaw were checked, but until now, the last wild specimen can be only found in Curaça.
		The Spix’s Macaw is associated to the intermittent streams in the “caatinga” where the higher trees are located.
		It can be found on the meadows and also on the “caatinga”.
	orbita.starmedia.com /~ararinha-azul/english/ararinha.htm (498 words)

	Caatinga (from South America) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Caatinga (white forest) refers to the generally stunted, somewhat sparse, and often thorny vegetation of the dry interior of northeastern Brazil.
		Trees, leafless for long periods and able to resist drought, also are characteristic, particularly in the basin of the São Francisco River.
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	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=41780 (879 words)

	UNDP Newsfront (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Caatinga means "white forest" in the local tupi-guarani language, so named because many trees are without leaves for much of the year, sporting only silvery bark.
		In addition, the initiative will help communities to integrate management of forest areas where wood is harvested and fruits, medicinal plants, oils and honey provide livelihoods, and offer incentives to set up protected areas.
		"This is a unique opportunity to promote human development in one of Brazil's poorest regions through the sustainable use of the Caatinga's resources, while protecting one of the most threatened and globally important eco-regions," said UNDP Resident Representative Carlos Lopes.
	www.undp.org /dpa/frontpagearchive/2004/february/20feb04 (476 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Caatinga (NT1304) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Visit the Caatinga region of northeastern Brazil, and you'll discover the largest dry forest region in South America and one of the richest dry forests in the world.
		Botanists have recognized that the Caatinga vegetation is so varied that there are several distinctive types.
		At least half of the Caatinga has already been either completely converted from its native vegetation or modified in a major way, primarily from centuries of overgrazing.
	www.nationalgeographic.com /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/nt/nt1304.html (453 words)

	Brazilian Fiesta Tours - Special Interests (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Tejucuoca is located in the middle of the biggest area of “Caatinga” in the state of Ceara.
		In this area the caatinga merges with no clear limits into the "cerrado" and interspersed with the caatinga are low mountains with uplands that are much more humid, containing elements of the Atlantic forests, with taller trees.
		General characteristics of the caatinga elements include total loss of leaves during the dry season, small and firm leaves, intense branching of the trees from the base (giving them a shrubby appearance) and the presence of succulent and crassulaceous species.
	www.fortalezafiesta.com /cearawonders.asp (1374 words)

	CPD: South America overview, centres of plant diversity and endemism, Interior dry and mesic forests (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Emperaire's (1987) caatinga relevés may be taken as the equivalent of a local Florula in south-east Piaui of this vegetation type; again the flora is relatively diverse with 615 species recorded.
		The caatinga and chaco, which have a much poorer ground cover of grasses and herbs, are much less diverse at the 0.1-ha scale.
		The caatinga, where much of Brazil's population of rural poor is concentrated, has been over-exploited for centuries; now desertification is a serious threat.
	nmnhgoph.si.edu /botany/projects/cpd/sa/sa-v.htm (1780 words)

	Ornithomedia - Dialogue - Forums 2 - Voyages / Observations
		Caatinga consists of many cacti from the towering columnar forms to delicate terrestrial flowering beauties, set amongst low thorny scrub dotted with different colourful terrestrial bromeliads.
		Caatinga covers the immense arid interior of much of the area, and is home to many endemic bird species.
		At dawn the Caatinga dawn chorus is spectacular.
	www.ornithomedia.com /phorum/read.php?f=3&t=527&a=1 (2635 words)

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