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(a)

FRENCH
GUIANA

SURINAME

Boa Vista

GUYANA

COLOMBIA

ATLANTIC
OCEAN

VENEZUELA

Macapá

e

Manaus Belém

Santarém

Fonte
Boa

s

n

Maraba

B R A Z I L

P

u

Porto Velho

Rio Branco

Guajará
Mirim

BOLIVIA

(b)

Inorganic matter Organic matter

Animal
remains

Unaltered
plant residues

Ash Black carbon

Micro-
organisms

Labile SOM Stable SOM

Nutrient
stocks

CEC

Plant
biomass

Figure 6.5 (a) Known terra preta sites in central Amazonia. (b) Model of terra preta genesis (Glaser and
Birk 2012). Reproduced with permission from Elsevier.