Country

Brazil

Brazil: 46 ecoregions. Each with its climate now and toward 2050, and its conservation tier.

Landscape and climate

Forty-six ecoregions reach Brazil, more than almost any other country, and the great majority are tropical moist broadleaf forest: the Amazonian blocks (the Southwest Amazon moist forests, Madeira-Tapajós moist forests, and Tapajós-Xingu moist forests, plus the várzea flooded forests along the rivers) and the badly reduced Atlantic forest belt from the Serra do Mar coastal forests to Pernambuco. Against that forest core sit three big non-forest systems: the Cerrado, at roughly 742,000 square miles the country's largest single ecoregion, a fire-adapted tropical savanna; the Caatinga, a semi-arid dry broadleaf region ranked Nature Imperiled; and the seasonally flooded Pantanal. For growers this means almost everywhere in Brazil is frost-free and warm, but the working variables are rainfall seasonality and soil, ranging from ever-wet Amazonian conditions to the long, hard dry season of the Caatinga.

Ecoregions here

Alto Paraná Atlantic forests Amazon-Orinoco-Southern Caribbean mangroves Araucaria moist forests Atlantic Coast restingas Bahia coastal forests Bahia interior forests Brazilian Atlantic dry forests Caatinga Caatinga Enclaves moist forests Campos Rupestres montane savanna Caqueta moist forests Cerrado Chiquitano dry forests Guianan Highlands moist forests Guianan lowland moist forests Guianan piedmont moist forests Guianan savanna Gurupa várzea Humid Chaco Iquitos várzea Japurá-Solimões-Negro moist forests Juruá-Purus moist forests Madeira-Tapajós moist forests Marajó várzea Maranhão Babaçu forests Mato Grosso tropical dry forests Monte Alegre várzea Negro-Branco moist forests Northeast Brazil restingas Pantanal Pantepui forests & shrublands Pernambuco coastal forests Pernambuco interior forests Purus várzea Purus-Madeira moist forests Rio Negro campinarana Serra do Mar coastal forests Solimões-Japurá moist forests Southern Atlantic Brazilian mangroves Southern Cone Mesopotamian savanna Southwest Amazon moist forests Tapajós-Xingu moist forests Tocantins/Pindare moist forests Uatumã-Trombetas moist forests Uruguayan savanna Xingu-Tocantins-Araguaia moist forests