Rain Forest Loss Tropical rain forestsoccupy just 7% of the Earth's land surface but are estimated to contain over 50% of its species. Their destruction has therefore come to be synonymous with the loss of species. These evergreen to partly evergreen forests occur in frost-free areas below ...
Tropical rainforest - Biodiversity, Ecosystems, Canopy: Tropical rainforests are distinguished not only by a remarkable richness of biota but also by the complexity of the interrelationships of all the plant and animal inhabitants that have been evolving
While species everywhere are known for utilizing symbiotic relationships with other species to survive, the biological phenomenon is particularly abundant in rainforests. Chapter 4: THE RAINFOREST CANOPY In the rainforest most plant and animal life is not found on the forest floor, but in the leafy...
but the impact of tropical rain forest transformation into rubber or oil palm plantations on fungal community structures and their ecological functions are unknown. We hypothesized that increasing land use intensity and habitat loss due to the replacement of the hyperdiverse forest flora by nonendemic ...
Humid Tropical Forest Tropical rain forest is tall, multi-layered, evergreen broad-leaved forest characterized by many epiphytes, climbing plants, and a tremendous richness of tree species with dark green, thin-coriaceous leaves, many with attenuated “drip tips” for better drainage but otherwise...
(Fig.1). Based on this unique dataset comprising 7,752 individuals and 447 species of tropical trees, palms and lianas, we identified some of the confounding relationships between climatic and edaphic factors and how they affect tropical forest diversity and vegetation C storage of lowland tropical...
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We analyse changes in functional (FDis)27(Supplementary Table2), taxonomic (Simpson diversity index)28,29, and phylogenetic diversity (mean pairwise phylogenetic distance, MPD)30of 21 unique vegetation plots from the African Tropical Rainforest Observation Network (AfriTON; Fig.1) across time (rang...
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