Fig. 1.
Average precipitation during the three driest consecutive months in western Amazonia. Precipitation data downloaded from the Chelsa site (Karger et al. 2017). The cities of Rio Branco (RB) and Cruzeiro do Sul (CdS) are marked with a triangle. The bamboo forests, as mapped by de Carvalho et al. (2013), are marked in yellow. The base map is the elevation model of the shuttle radar topography mission