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Inga alba (Guavo)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Inga alba is a species of tree from the Fabaceae family, native to Central and South America.
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Attributes

Janka Hardness [2]  1900 lbf (862 kgf) Hard
Leaf Type [1]  Evergreen
Specific Gravity [3]  0.59
Structure [1]  Tree

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Corcovado National Park 115845 Costa Rica  
Manú National Park II 4213523 Cusco, Peru  
Megantoni National Sanctuary 536005 Cusco, Peru  

Predators

Amazona farinosa (Mealy Parrot)[4]
Ara macao (Scarlet Macaw)[4]
Pionus menstruus (Blue-headed Parrot)[4]
Pithecia albicans (buffy saki)[5]
Saguinus niger (black tamarin)[6]

External References

Citations

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♦ 1Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 2Wood Janka Hardness Scale/Chart J W Morlan's Unique Wood Gifts
♦ 3Jérôme Chave, Helene C. Muller-Landau, Timothy R. Baker, Tomás A. Easdale, Hans ter Steege, Campbell O. Webb, 2006. Regional and phylogenetic variation of wood density across 2,456 neotropical tree species. Ecological Applications 16(6), 2356 - 2367
♦ 4PARROT CLAYLICKS: DISTRIBUTION, PATTERNS OF USE AND ECOLOGICAL CORRELATES FROM A PARROT ASSEMBLAGE IN SOUTHEASTERN PERU, ALAN TRISTRAM KENNETH LEE, dissertation for DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY, Manchester Metropolitan University, November 2010
♦ 5Notes on the Ecology of Buffy Saki Monkeys (Pithecia albicans, Gray 1860): A Canopy Seed-Predator, CARLOS A. PERES, American Journal of Primatology 31:129-140 (1993)
♦ 6Habitat Exploitation by Free-ranging Saguinus niger in Eastern Amazonia, Ana Cristina M. Oliveira & Stephen F. Ferrari, Int J Primatol (2008) 29:1499–1510
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0