• Cerros de Mavecure, Guainía department, Colombia. Devil's Canyon in the Canaima National Park, Venezuela. Map of the Guianas.
  • The guiana shield is an elevated, tropical biome. The guiana shield is generated above the clouds, often peaking around Y = 200...
  • In the heart of the Guiana Shield and Highlands, the symphony of geological formations and ecological wonders plays on.
  • The Guiana Shield emerged from the ocean over 1,700,000,000 years ago to form the first land mass on the super continent of Pangaea.
  • ACT emphasizes the importance of advancing the consolidation of a 30-million-hectare biocultural corridor across the eastern Guiana Shield (shown in purple...
  • The Guianas cover nearly a fifth of the Guiana Shield, and the landscapes still remain in good condition while the marine environment is considered one of the...
  • …eroded rocks of the ancient Guiana Shield are exposed, producing a broken topography of low, isolated mountains, tablelands, and buttes with rapids in the streams.
  • This chapter describes the geologic, topographic and hydrologic evolution of the Guiana Shield, focusing on suckermouth armored catfishes.
  • We conclude that the diverse loricariid fauna of the Guiana Shield accumulated gradually over tens of millions of years with major lineages being shaped by...