The Experimental Farm of the Federal University of Amazonas - UFAM - covers an area of 3,000 hectares (3 x 10 km) of tropical rain forest. The farm is located at km 38 of highway BR-174 and limits to the south with the Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (IBAMA) and to the north with the Experimental Station of Tropical Fruit Growing (EEFT) and Experimental Station of Silviculture Tropical (EEST), both belonging to INPA.
The farm is located at km 38 of the BR-174 highway.
Accommodation
(under construction)
Camp
The metal camp (Image 1) is installed on the East-West trail 1, at 4,500. It has 36 m2 and was built with financial resources from CNPq, Graduate Program in Ecology at INPA and PPBio.
This study area is a forest fragment of just over 860 ha, located in the municipality of Senador Guiomard, on the banks of BR 364, 27 km from Rio Branco, close to its confluence with BR 317, Estrada do Pacífico, and has a strategic importance for studies on biodiversity in Acre, as it is one of the areas where long-term studies are carried out, started in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
The Amapá National Forest covers an area of 459,867 hectares and is located in the the Guiana Shield region, in the center of the State of Amapá and covers part of the three municipalities of Ferreira Gomes, Pracuúba and Amapá. This conservation unit was created in 1989 to enable the sustainable exploitation of wood, as well as to protect the biodiversity and the continuity of low impact activities carried out by indigenous populations that already inhabited the area.
30 plots in a class adapted to the Biodiversity Research Program (PPBio), with a minimum distance of one kilometer between them. Destinations, 23 points located at Fazenda Três Lagoas and seven in neighboring properties.
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