rainforesttoincludeseveralkeyfeatures:highdiversityandabun- danceofangiospermtreesandlianas;highproportionsof entire-marginedandlargeleaves;high abundance of leaf drip tips; large fruit and seed size, and abundant epiphytes. However, the actual timeframe during which modern tropical rainforests ...
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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. ...
Rainforest emissions linked with new particle formation at high altitudes Why are there so many newly formed aerosol particles in the upper troposphere over tropical regions such as the Amazon? Tropical forests play an important role in global climate regulation. However, the high concentrations ......
Tropical Rain Forest Tropical wet forests occupy the drainage of theAmazonand southern Orinoco basin, the piedmont of theAndesin northern and western South America, the Choco-Darien region between the Andes and the Pacific Ocean in western Colombia, and the southwest and Atlantic coast of Brazil ...
These keys are based on simple field characters such as sap colour and leaf features. To assist identification, illustrations are given of the most important field characters. With modifications similar keys could be developed for most rainforest situations. This method of key construction could be ...
have significantly increased the diversity of ecosystems that occur in the continent. Most of the area of South America occupies tropical latitudes, hence tropical ecosystems dominate the landscapes. The main tropical ecosystems includetropical rain forest, dry forest, cloud forest, savannas, shrub ...
The bromeliads found in the rainforest are related to the pineapple family of plants. Interestingly, a bromeliad plant can be considered a little ecosystem because it is inviting to creatures of the forest who sometimes take up residence. The bromeliad has a thick, waxy leaf that forms an urn...
GP2 is located close to the proposed Pleistocene forest refuge on the CVL (Maley, 1996; Maley and Brenac, 1998). This refuge was supported by the discovery of endemic alleles in the rainforest trees Santiria trimera (Koffi et al., 2011) and Irvingia gabonensis (Lowe et al., 2010). ...
www.nature.com/hdy ARTICLE OPEN Environmental selection, rather than neutral processes, best explain regional patterns of diversity in a tropical rainforest fish Katie Gates 1, Jonathan Sandoval-Castillo 1, Chris J. Brauer 1, Peter J. Unmack2, Martin Laporte 3,4, Louis Bernatchez3 and Luciano...