Chiquitano

The Bolivian portion of this ecoregion is delineated following Ribera et al., and follows the Rio Madeira boundary south until it abuts with the Beni biomes and later the Chiquitano dry forests, whose distinct vegetation justifies this separation.

Madeira-Tapajós moist forests 2008

Chiquitano forest contained the highest mammalian species richness of several biomes in the ecoregion, with 42 species accounted for in less than two weeks of surveys.

Chiquitano dry forests 2008

This formation, known in Bolivia as the Chiquitano Semideciduous Forest, is similar in composition and structure to the dry forests of the Misiones region of eastern Paraguay and northeastern Argentina, the Caatinga region of Brazil and the Andean piedmont in north-west Argentina.

Noel Kempff Mercado National Park, Bolivia 2008

Surprisingly, the Chiquitano forest is floristically more similar to the geographically distant Caatinga, Misiones and Tucumano forests than its neighbors in the Chaco and Cerrado ecoregions.

Chiquitano dry forests 2008

Dry forests are the most endangered tropical forest in the world and the Chiquitano forest is no exception.

Chiquitano dry forests 2008

It appears that the Chiquitano forest functioned as a central node to these currently fragmented dry forest holocene refugia, making it a very promising area for adaptive radiation research.

Chiquitano dry forests 2008

One very large block of intact habitat (40,000 kilometers squared [km2]) in the SE reaches of the ecoregion remains as the sole guardian of Chiquitano biodiversity.

Chiquitano dry forests 2008

The dry forests of the Chiquitano region were deliniated according to national vegetation cover maps.

Chiquitano dry forests 2008

Roughly in the center of the South American continent, most of the Chiquitano forest lies within the eastern lowlands of Santa Cruz, Bolivia, with smaller patches extending into western Mato Grosso, Brazil.

Chiquitano dry forests 2008

The Chiquitano seldom speaks, and in this respect he is utterly unlike the Brazilian.

Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America G. Whitfield Ray