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particular tropical ecosystem, with descriptive case studies providing a framework around which ecological concepts and applied ecological topics are presented.
29 Σεπ 2014 · Occupying less than 7 % of Earth’s land surface, tropical rain forests harbor perhaps half of the species on Earth and are ecologically, economically, and culturally crucial for issues in...
5 Σεπ 2018 · Tropical Rain Forest Ecology, Diversity, and Conservation introduces and explores what rain forests are, how they arose, what they contain, how they function, and how humans use and impact...
1 Φεβ 2011 · After an introduction to the environments and geological histories of the major rain forest regions, subsequent chapters focus on plants, primates, carnivores and plant-eaters, birds, fruit...
Tropical seasonal forest is defined here as lowland tropi-cal forest (mean annual temperature 20 C, mean temperature of the coolest month 18 C) which averages 1600 mm yr 1 of rainfall and 100 mm for at least seven months of the year, with a single severe dry season averaging <175 mm for the year’s driest quarter and <100 mm for at least 3 consec...
Tropical rain forests are the world’s most biologically diverse ecosystems - harbouring over 50% of the world’s plants and animals. These highly productive ecosystems perform invaluable services to man, by helping to regulate the global climate; acting as barriers against soil erosion and providing us with products
Explain to students that a large portion of the world’s species of plants and animals are found within tropical rainforests, many of which can be found nowhere else on the planet. This factor makes them biodiversity hotspots and something that is worth protecting.
