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Inside Mamiraua's flooded forests
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My first real insight into the term flooded forest came while standing in a boat staring up at a munguba tree towering over my head. It was my first visit to the Mamiraua reserve, and I was with Ronis da Silveira, a Brazilian student studying the ecology of the jacares, South American relatives of alligators and crocodiles.
Mungubas have ramrod-straight trunks with white bark and bright-red seed capsules, but on the tree above me, and on all of the trunks of all the surrounding bas, was a demarcating line nearly twenty-five feet above us, white above, darker below. This was the high-water ...
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