World Foraminifera Database. The World Foraminifera Database. This World Database of all species of Foraminifera ever described (recent and fossil), is part of the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), a global initiative to provide a register of all marine organisms.
Forest Biome. Forest is a broad term used to describe areas where there are a large number of trees. Depending on the type of trees in that area forests can be further divided into five main categories. These are: coniferous forest, deciduous forest, mixed leaved forest, Mediterranean forest, and tropical rainforests.
The Amazon Biome, is defined as the area covered predominantly by dense moist tropical forest, with relatively small inclusions of several other types of vegetation such as savannas, floodplain forests, grasslands, swamps, bamboos, and palm forests.