Plate 18- 1. Cattle ranching, fields of soybeans, teak plantations, continued logging, damming of major rivers, and climate change
all portend accelerated changes for the ecology and biodiversity of the Neotropics. Photo by John Kricher.
Plate 18- 2. This degraded forest in Amazonian Brazil (in Mato Grosso do Sul) has been cleared for logging and for conversion to
agriculture. Perhaps ironically, the words mato grosso come from the Portuguese for “thick wood.” The color of the sky is due to
heavy smoke created by the burning of wood (during the dry season) from the cleared forest. Photo by John Kricher.
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