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Area of Forests in Venezuela by Category of Protected AreaECOSYSTEMCATEGORY Nonforest Lowland Submontane Montane Mangrove Tepui Water TOTALAB 19,686.3 2,680.7 3.4 0 104.5 0 37.1 22,512.0LB 1,285.6 7,527.0 2,255.1 0 0 0 71.2 11,138.9MN 9,039.8 22,477.1 29,551,4 11,733.3 0 231.5 13.5 73,046.6PN 47,554.6 22,417.3 30,108.9 20,860.6 909.0 541.7 414.5 122,806.6RB 3,216.0 38,855.2 30,967.2 12,078.6 786.2 351.4 155.2 86,409.8REFA 695.1 135.2 0 0 0 0 3.4 833.7RFR 11,586.0 71,531.4 30,810.5 5,406.0 1,351.8 119.2 792.4 121,597.3RFS 851.4 0 0 0 3.4 0 47.0 901.8RNH 18,046.3 1,217.0 438.0 0 0 0 3.4 19,789.9ZP 43,656.6 27,740.5 19,855.1 9,871.9 0 0 721.7 101,845.8TOTAL 155,617.7 194,581.6 143,989.6 60,035.5 3,155.0 1,243.8 2,259.3 560,882.5AB= Forest Areas Under ProtectionLB= Forest LotsMN= Natural MonumentsPN= National ParksRB= Biosphere ReserveREFA= Wildlife ReserveRFR= Forest ReserveRFS= Wildlife RefugeRNH= National Hydraulic ReserveZP= Protected ZoneChapter 3: Non-Extractive Value of Forests of the Guayana regionBiodiversityTable 4: Venezuela’s Global Rank in Terms of BiodiversityNotes:• Number of species per 10,000 km 2 : This allows comparisons of number of species among countries ofvarying sizes by predicting the number of species that would occur in a uniform area. The species-area curveconsists of the following formula: S=cA z , where S=number of species, A=area, and c and z are constants. Formore details, see World Resources Institute, World Resources, 2000-2001 (Washington, DC: WRI, 2001), pp.317-318.• Statistics for total number and number of endemic mammals were updated from J. Ochoa G. and M.Aguilera, “Mamíferos,” in M. Aguilera et al. (eds.) Biodiversidad en Venezuela (Caracas, Venezuela:CONICIT/Fundación Polar, in press), and ranked according to data tables in WRI, 2001.Figures 5-6, Map 7Wildlife Species Richness in the Guayana Region (Figure 5)Group Guayana Region Not in GuayanaMammals 244 91Birds 855 512Amphibians 128 147Reptiles 98 19492