Tropical rainforest in Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler ABOUT THE RAINFOREST (SUMMARY) Chapter 1: RAINFOREST DISTRIBUTION AND CHARACTERISTICS Each rainforest is unique, but there are certain features common to all tropical rainforests. Location: rainforests lie in the tropics. ...
Characteristics of the Tropical Rainforest Biome All biomes are characterized by the dominant vegetation. In the rainforest biome there are tall trees and warm temperatures all year. The yearly average rainfall is from 50 to 260 inches. The temperature is warm but not hot. Almost every rainfores...
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Specifically, building on a previous work23, we quantify in a consistent manner at pantropical scale: (1) the extent of forest degradation in 2022 taking into account edge effects; (2) the impact of different types of disturbance on forest structural characteristics and their persistence over ...
While the flooding takes place, filling the entire forest, the animals can maneuver through the rainforest in search of food. Plants have also adapted characteristics to survive flooding. Numerous trees have developed barks that cannot rot whatsoever. Some trees feature buttress roots that grow like...
A. Potential of tree-ring analysis in a wet tropical forest: a case study on 22 commercial tree species in Central Africa. For. Ecol. Manage. 323, 65–78 (2014). Article Google Scholar Rifai, S. W. et al. ENSO drives interannual variation of forest woody growth across the tropics. ...
Modeling the Impact of Black Spruce on the Fire Regime of Alaskan Boreal Forest In the boreal biome, fire is the major disturbance agent affecting ecosystem change, and fire dynamics will likely change in response to climatic warming. ... TS Rupp,AM Starfield,FSI Chapin,... - 《Climatic Cha...
Thus, soil P availability could strongly limit various aspects of ecosystem function in tropical forests, as well as regulate tropical forest responses to anthropogenic perturbation. In this chapter, we describe P cycling in tropical forests growing on highly weathered soil (e.g., Ultisols and ...
Tropical forest characteristics (per ha−1), i.e. plant species richness, aboveground C stock, community-weighted mean wood density, labile soil phosphorus, available soil water, as well as percentage of plant functional type, i.e. nitrogen-fixing tree species (Nfix), lianas (Liana) and pal...
At this scale, light conditions can already vary considerably on the forest floor (Nicotra et al., 1999). In two of the emerging partially mycoheterotrophic species, Acalypha macrostachya and Trichilia pallida, the 13C enrichment signature may indeed even underestimate fungus-to-plant C transfer...