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zurales
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La belleza de la flora acuática de la Orinoquia colombiana, plasmada en las fotos aquí incluidas, es un aliciente para ver más allá de la aparente monotonía de los pastos que dominan las sabanas y descubrir entre los zurales, caños y morichales una inmensa diversidad críptica.
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| 3 +5 | surales |
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| 3 | swamps (zurales) |
Chema Nieto Castañón
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surales
According to the BBC:
"East of the Andes mountains, in the floodplains of great Orinoco River of South America, there lies a mysterious place.
The Surales is a landscape of green mounds alternating with deep pits. The mounds are organised in intricate patterns, which vary from simple rounds to veritable labyrinths.
So regular are the arrangements, you might think they had been built by human engineers. In fact, these mounds were built by humble earthworms.
But these are no ordinary earthworms. The builders of the Surales are earthworms up to 3ft (1m) long."
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160526-the-giant-earthworms...
And others:
The Surales, Self-Organized Earth-Mound Landscapes ... - NCBI - NIH
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4864223/
by A Zangerlé - 2016 - Cited by 8 - Related articles
May 11, 2016 - They are found in the Orinoco Llanos of Colombia and Venezuela, mostly .... Consequently, we investigated the ecology of surales in three field ..
Mystery of the giant 'surales' mounds is solved: Bizarre heaps of mud ...
www.dailymail.co.uk/.../Mystery-giant-surales-mounds-solved...
May 11, 2016 - Rising above the waterlogged grass plains of northern Columbia and southern Venezuela are strange mounds that stud the landscape and have baffled scientists for decades. Now researchers have found the regularly spaced, densely packed hummocks of soil are made by giant earthworms ...
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Last link doesn't seem to work:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3585122/Myste...
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2nd link, The Surales, Self-Organized Earth-Mound Landscapes .:
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
"East of the Andes mountains, in the floodplains of great Orinoco River of South America, there lies a mysterious place.
The Surales is a landscape of green mounds alternating with deep pits. The mounds are organised in intricate patterns, which vary from simple rounds to veritable labyrinths.
So regular are the arrangements, you might think they had been built by human engineers. In fact, these mounds were built by humble earthworms.
But these are no ordinary earthworms. The builders of the Surales are earthworms up to 3ft (1m) long."
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160526-the-giant-earthworms...
And others:
The Surales, Self-Organized Earth-Mound Landscapes ... - NCBI - NIH
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4864223/
by A Zangerlé - 2016 - Cited by 8 - Related articles
May 11, 2016 - They are found in the Orinoco Llanos of Colombia and Venezuela, mostly .... Consequently, we investigated the ecology of surales in three field ..
Mystery of the giant 'surales' mounds is solved: Bizarre heaps of mud ...
www.dailymail.co.uk/.../Mystery-giant-surales-mounds-solved...
May 11, 2016 - Rising above the waterlogged grass plains of northern Columbia and southern Venezuela are strange mounds that stud the landscape and have baffled scientists for decades. Now researchers have found the regularly spaced, densely packed hummocks of soil are made by giant earthworms ...
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Note added at 23 mins (2018-06-11 20:54:46 GMT)
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Last link doesn't seem to work:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3585122/Myste...
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Note added at 27 mins (2018-06-11 20:58:44 GMT)
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2nd link, The Surales, Self-Organized Earth-Mound Landscapes .:
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
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swamps (zurales)
Las definiciones varían de más generales a más específicas.
Pej.
Zural
Término local usado para indicar un terreno plano con un patrón de erosión formando una red intrincada de zanjas que han dejado entre sí montículos con un diámetro promedio de un metro, llamados zuros. La profundidad de las zanjas puede variar entre 10 y 150 centímetros.
* mainly found at alluvial terraces.
http://www.fao.org/docrep/field/009/ar746s/ar746s.pdf
O también, (ver imagen);
Microrrelieve de zurales (suelo)
fig 8.1, pg 198
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lina_Estupinan_Suarez/p...
De manera más genérica, zurales alude a una formación particular de las tierras bajas del Orinoco que puede leerse como un tipo de wetland (los wetlands del orinoco; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orinoco_wetlands ).
Y de manera efectiva, cuando zural alude a un tipo de particular de humedal, se traduce como swamp. Por ejemplo;
(…) compared between and within wetland types (swamps, heronries, rice fields, semi-natural lakes, constructed lakes and fish farms) and origins (natural, mixed and artificial)
The value of small, natural and man-made... (PDF Download Available). Available from:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320808055_The_value...
Se muestrearon 37 humedales, de tres orígenes (natural, artificial y mixto) y seis tipos (zurales, garceros, piscícolas, lagos construidos, lagos artificiales mixtos y cultivos de arroz de riego).
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/324780324_Influenci...
Resumiendo, en tu caso específico, insertado en compañía de caños y morichales, traduciría como swamps -e incluiría entre paréntesis la denominación específica local en su grafía original; swamps (zurales).
Pej.
Zural
Término local usado para indicar un terreno plano con un patrón de erosión formando una red intrincada de zanjas que han dejado entre sí montículos con un diámetro promedio de un metro, llamados zuros. La profundidad de las zanjas puede variar entre 10 y 150 centímetros.
* mainly found at alluvial terraces.
http://www.fao.org/docrep/field/009/ar746s/ar746s.pdf
O también, (ver imagen);
Microrrelieve de zurales (suelo)
fig 8.1, pg 198
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lina_Estupinan_Suarez/p...
De manera más genérica, zurales alude a una formación particular de las tierras bajas del Orinoco que puede leerse como un tipo de wetland (los wetlands del orinoco; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orinoco_wetlands ).
Y de manera efectiva, cuando zural alude a un tipo de particular de humedal, se traduce como swamp. Por ejemplo;
(…) compared between and within wetland types (swamps, heronries, rice fields, semi-natural lakes, constructed lakes and fish farms) and origins (natural, mixed and artificial)
The value of small, natural and man-made... (PDF Download Available). Available from:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320808055_The_value...
Se muestrearon 37 humedales, de tres orígenes (natural, artificial y mixto) y seis tipos (zurales, garceros, piscícolas, lagos construidos, lagos artificiales mixtos y cultivos de arroz de riego).
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/324780324_Influenci...
Resumiendo, en tu caso específico, insertado en compañía de caños y morichales, traduciría como swamps -e incluiría entre paréntesis la denominación específica local en su grafía original; swamps (zurales).
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