Discussion Based on the data at Tables 4c.2 and 4c.3‚ it is evident that the tropical rainforest has higher species richness than the tropical grassland ecosystem. However‚ when based in the indices on Diversity‚ Similarity and Dominance in the tropical grassland and tropical rainforest data‚ the Simpson Indices favor the data for the tropical rainforest as more diverse than the tropical grassland. The Simpson Indices‚ as defined in Cuevas et. al (2012)‚ is based on dominance and as the number of
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GOVERNANCE AT AMAZON Amazon or Amazon.com was found in 1994 by Jeff Bezos. It is an American e-commerce and cloud computing company. It‚ since then‚ has evolved significantly and today is the largest online retailer in regard to market capitalization and total sales. It initially started off as an online bookstore. Then‚ later on‚ it diversified its product range to include almost everything that a person can think of ranging from electronics to clothes‚ food‚ furniture and so much more. Amazon also makes
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Chevron fined for Amazon pollution by Ecuador court A court in Ecuador has fined US oil giant Chevron $8.6bn (£5.3bn) for polluting a large part of the country’s Amazon region. The oil firm Texaco‚ which merged with Chevron in 2001‚ was accused of dumping billions of gallons of toxic materials into unlined pits and Amazon rivers. Campaigners say crops were damaged and farm animals killed‚ and that local cancer rates increased. Condemning the ruling as fraudulent‚ Chevron said it would appeal
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tribes living in South America‚ many of them remain uncontacted and have no communication with global civilization. It has been proved by Survival International that there are over 100 isolated societies in the world‚ most which are found in the Amazon Rainforest. For the tribes that have no communication with global civilization‚ it is not only best for them‚ but also best for us North Americans that they are left uncontacted by civilization. Uncontacted tribes from South America are contained with
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story that illustrates unity‚ strength and incorporeality. The film is based on a young boy named Tommy‚ who was abducted by a tribe in the Amazon called “The Invisible People”. His dad‚ Bill Markham spends 10 years searching for him‚ until they meet by chance one day while Tommy was evading the "Fierce People". The “Fierce People” also dwelled in the Amazon‚ and were the Invisible People’s enemies. When Tommy was finally able to bring his father to safety‚ he declares his refusal to return to his
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Available from: <http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/papers/genderbias.html> 15 22. Margulis‚ Sergio (2004) Causes of Deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon. Washington D.C: The World Bank 23 24. William Jackson (2009) How Can We Save the Amazon Rainforest? [online]‚ 13 Dec. Available from<http://www.ehow.com/way_5377210_can-save-amazon-rainforest.html> [20 Dec 2010] 25
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The Culture of the Huaorani of Ecuador “In the Eastern part of Ecuador stretches el Oriente‚ the jungle. Between the Napo and Curaray Rivers are 600‚000 hectares of land that is the home of the Huaorani‚ feared warriors of the Amazon Rainforest. This territory includes Yasuni National Park‚ one of the most bio-diverse places on the planet. Unfortunate for the Huaorani‚ it also includes hundreds of kilometers of oil pipes and several oil company stations that are having a devastating effect on
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Amazon Technologies Amazon started as a simple bookseller over the last decade it has branched out into additional product areas and the third-party sales that now represent a good chunk of its revenue. The technology core that runs Amazon Linux-based. Amazon has the world’s three largest Linux databases‚ with a total capacity of 7.8 terabytes (TB)‚ 18.5 TB and 24.7 TB respectively. The data warehouse is mainly divided into three verticals: query‚ historical data and ETL (Extract‚ Transform and
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The Yanomami People Martha A. Garcia Instructor: Rachel Grabner INT 101 Cultural Anthropology May 19‚ 2013 2. This tribe of people are unique a very interesting. In viewing several videos about these people and reading up on them‚ and how they live is truly astonishing and intriguing to me. The Yanomami tribe are an indigenous group
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The Yanomami is a tribe located in Northern Brazil and Venezuela‚ South America. They live in the rainforests and mountains environments. They both live off the land and farm. The Yanomami tribe’s population is approximately 32 thousand. The Brazilian land of the Yanomami is about 9.6 million hectares whilst the Yanomami territory of Venezuela is around 8.2 million hectares. Together these two lands make up the largest indigenous territory in the world. Although our culture differs from the Yanomami
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