STOCK PHOTOGRAPHY BY JACQUES JANGOUX Stock photographs of tropical nature and cultures, with emphasis on Latin America and AfricA. IMAGE GALLERY: NATURE Buy directly online from the photographer, paying with Credit Card or PayPal
Gallery collection: NATURE: ecosystems, vegetation, tropical rainforest (life forms, growth cycle), savanna, xerophytic or dry vegetation, desert, aquatic, mountain (montane), animals: South America, Africa, some USA (Hawaii, California, Arizona), Europe: Belgium, Asia: Malaysia (photo: Cissus aquatic vine in Pantanal swamp, Brazil)
Tropical ecology concepts, processes: climate, biome, ecosystem, biodiversity, life forms, human interaction:
Concepts in ecology from tropical climate (rainstorm, hurricane damage)
to seed dispersal to seedling to life forms to biomes,
ecosystems and habitats (rainforest, cloud forest, savanna grassland, wooded
savanna, aquatic vegetation (floating, swamp forest, mangrove), dry or xerophytic vegetation, desert, tropical alpine
vegetation: paramo, puna; canopy, emergent tree, trunk, liana (vine),
leaves, leaf shape, drip tip, flowers, thorn, buttress, stilt roots;
treefall gap or natural clearing, with
regeneration and colonization; human interaction: fire (rainforest, savanna),
deforestation, logging; alternative energy: wind (eolian) farm. More
images in specific galleries.
The pictures in the following two galleries can also be found in the main rainforest gallery; however they present specific topics. Tropical Rainforest Growth CyclePictures of rainforest growth, life cycle and regeneration, showing the
climate in rainstorm, treefall gaps or natural clearings in rainforest,
fungi on decaying wood as part of the nutrient chain, seed dispersal by
water, dead leaves and seedlings on rainforest litter, young leaves of
palms, adult rainforest with palm, adult tree in rainforest: brazil nut
tree, aerial of rainforest canopy, emergent tree, aerial of blooming
(flowering) trees in rainforest, flowers in rainforest undergrowth. Tropical Rainforest Plant and Tree Life Forms Tropical Rainforest Life Forms: tree, buttresses, stilt roots, thorns,
shrub, leaf with drip tip, herb on ground floor, vine (liana), climber,
scandent, epiphyte, floating aquatic plants, leaf shapes, compound
leaf, variegated leaf.
Savanna grassland, wooded savanna, cerrado, grassland, saxicolous vegetation Savanna is called cerrado in Brazil, twisted trees, rock outcrops in savanna, saxicolous vegetation: vegetation among rocks, flowers: Vellozia, Helicteres, Habenaria ground orchid, savanna fire, antelope in savanna, savanna devastation: sugar cane plantation with ethanol processing plant.
Aquatic vegetation: mangrove, floating, floodplain, igapo (swamp forest), swamp, rheophyte: mangrove forest on Brazil Atlantic coast, on Venezuela caribbean coast, stilt rots of Rhizophora mangle tree, floating vegetation on Amazon river: Victoria amazonica giant water lily, floating grass and Phyllanthus sp. (Euphorbiaceae) on channel in igapo swamp forest, water hyacinth and Cissus sp. vine in Pantanal swamp, water dispersal of fruit of Mauritia flexuosa palm, aerials of Amazon river floodplain during wet and dry season and of tidal floodplain forest of Amazon estuary, tree with buttresses in igapo forest (permanently flooded swamp forest) and on riverside, rheophyte (growing in running water) fern in Malaysia.
Mountain (altitude) vegetation: cloud forest (montane rain forest, paramo, puna: Cloud forest (montane rain forest); tree ferns on Mount Kinabalu, Borneo, Malaysia; Euterpe palm in Cordillera de la Costa in Venezuela; stand of bamboos in Guiana Highlands of Venezuela; paramo: wet altitude vegetation in the Andes mountain range with flowers: Espeletia, Senecio, Lupinus (lupine); dry alpine (altitude) vegetation of Central Andes: Puna grassland in Peru
Flowers and leaves:
Tropical wildflowers of rainforest and savanna, often with botanical
scientific latin name of family (families), genus, species; exotic foliage;
agriculture / horticulture: tulip cultivation in Holland; Uzbek old man
caring for his rose garden.
Palms (Family: Arecacea or Palmae):
Palm trees and undergrowth small palms in their natural rainforest
habitat: Amazon rainforest in Brazil and Peru; Venezuela; West Africa
(Ivory Coast); Malaysia (Borneo); cloud forest in Venezuela; Atlantic
rainforest in Brazil; thorny stems; coconut plantations in Brazil, Hawaii (Kauai)
Begonias (Family Begoniaceae):
Plants often with spectacular decorative foliage in their natural
habitat: two species (B. glabra in Peru, B. maynensis in Brazil) in
Amazon rainforest; one species (B. petasitifolia) in Brazilian
Highlands; the remaining species in the Atlantic rainforest (Mata
Atlantica), Serra do Mar mountain range, Brazil.
Nature, scenics: Venezuela: Angel Falls, Brazil, Chile, USA: Hawaii: Kauai, California, Arizona, Belgium : Angel Falls / Salto Angel, highest waterfall in world; rivers,
waterfalls; Amazon River and floodplain; Brazilian and Venezuelan
Highlands; plateaus, vegetation types; Atacama desert in Chile; Hawaii: Kauai Island; California: Big Sur coast; Arizona: Canyon de Chelly; Belgium: beech trees in Foret de Soignes near Brussels.
Environment, biodiversity, rainforest destruction, global warming, alternative (wind) energy The emphasis is on biodiversity, both in natural ecosystems and in traditional slash-and-burn agriculture. Low impact human interaction is shown by the extractivism of balata latex. Human impact is illustrated by iron mining in the amazon rainforest, sugar cane monoculture and logging. Alternative energy is illustrated by a wind farm (wind, eolian energy).
Gallery collection: NATURE: ecosystems, vegetation, tropical rainforest (life forms, growth cycle), savanna, xerophytic or dry vegetation, desert, aquatic, mountain (montane), animals: South America, Africa, some USA (Hawaii, California, Arizona), Europe: Belgium, Asia: Malaysia
