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.
The Três Lagoas Farm is located in the municipality of Angatuba, southwest of the state of São Paulo, in the Alto Paranapanema basin, tributary of the Paraná River, which divides the states of São Paulo and Paraná. The farm is about 3,420 ha and occupies an originally transitional area between cerrado and semi-deciduous forest with elements of cerradão.
The Maracá Ecological Station in Roraima covers 103,976.48 hectares and was created in 1981 to preserve a representative sample of the Amazonian ecosystem, focusing on ecotones. The installation of the grid at Esec Maracá was carried out by members of PPBio Roraima and completed in March 2006.
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