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Latin America is a vast land area that exceeds 2 bill, ha, stretches from Mexico in the North to Chile in the South, and consists of more than 40 countries. Of its territory 70% lies in the tropical zone and in the Southern Hemisphere. The region possesses a wide variety of climatic and topographic features that are combined with a great diversity of geological formations and soils. The interaction between these elements generates a large number of different forest types and vegetal formations.
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Mery, G. (1999). Latin American Forests, Societies and Environments. In: Palo, M., Uusivuori, J. (eds) World Forests, Society and Environment. World Forests, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4746-0_23
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