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Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Tropical Rainforest Biome

Wet forest found in tropical areas covering peninsula Central America, South America, Africa, Madagascar, Australia Northern, Indonesia and Malaysia. In this forest there are many different types of plants that can live as it gets sunshine and adequate rainfall.

 The characteristics of wet forest biome include:

  1. Very high rainfall, over 2,000 mm / year 
  2. The main trees have a height between 20-40 m 
  3. Branches of leafy trees and wide and are always green all year round 
  4. Gets enough sunlight, but the sunlight is unable to penetrate the forest floor 
  5. Microclimate has on the environment around the surface of the ground / under the canopy (leaves on large trees that form a covering)


Plant species that live in wet forest areas, among others:




Because trees in tropical forests are on average relatively high and the soil surface is often inundated by water, then lots of animals that live in the rain forest is a type of climber animals primates, such as:



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