BLOSSOMING TREASURES OF BIODIVERSITY: 17. Brazil Nut —a key resource in a globally important ecosystem

摘要

The Brazil Nut, one of the world's most gigantic and useful trees, has become a symbol of the struggle to protect the tropical American rainforest. It brings to the forefront extremely persuasive reasons—economic, sociological, and ecological—not just for protection of this magnificent tree but also for preservation of the globally significant Amazonian ecosystem.