Tropical forests are located geographically at the equator and in the tropics of the world.Their distinctive feature - many levels and branches of vegetation weave together.Because of this, being in this forest, it is impossible to see the sunlight.They are very rich in vegetation, especially all kinds of vines and epiphytes.Most of them make up the trees, reaching heights of up to 40 meters.The plants presented a number of species in a thousand, and the species of trees are more than 750. The air temperature throughout the year is 22-32 degrees, and precipitation from 1500 to 2000 mm.
None biome can boast such a variety of flora and fauna, as tropical forests.They are a storehouse of various plants, including, medicaments, and due to inaccessibility of many of these plants have not been studied botany.Interestingly, all of the most valuable trees born precisely from such forests.
Rainforests gave us a lot of plants and trees, without which we can not do, such as bananas, coffee, citrus, tea and hevea.Unfortunately, more than half of the forests in the tropics have been destroyed.The Congo Basin and adjacent areas to the Amazon and the jungles of India is very severely affected by the intervention of the "master of nature" - a person.Tropical forests, which more than 80 million years, today are cut with catastrophic speed, and if people do not change their attitude to nature, they may disappear forever.
unusually diverse fauna of the tropics.It is home to about 100 species of mammals, the same number of reptiles, 400 species of birds and rare amphibians.In tropical forests are home to hippos, elephants, rhinos, which are the real giants of the animal world.A monkey!They are everywhere.People living next door to them, often suffer from leprosy these ubiquitous fidgets.
Extraordinary colors hummingbird found only in these places, and butterflies, almost the same size as they pollinate Tropical flowers.In the rivers you can meet all kinds of crocodiles, a large number of turtles and snakes, most of which relates to poisonous.From here you can find insects almost every step of ants and termites.
Rainforests are common in the Amazon, in equatorial Africa, Indonesia and Australia (Queensland).In the year here it falls to 7000 mm of precipitation, and the height of trees up to 60 meters.Rainforests have 4 to 5 tiers, each of which its inhabitants.A distinctive feature is the fact that there are no shrubs, and trees have a very thin crust, the soil is covered with moss, but not everywhere.The rotting process is very fast because of the high humidity.However, all members of the flora and fauna feel fine because during evolution they adapted to living in such conditions.
In tropical rain forests inhabited by animals such as porcupines, opossums, New World monkeys, sloths, armadillos.They live only in this biome, and most of them are rare species.
Tropical forests are located in Africa, the Congo Basin and also endangered.They were mercilessly cut down and plantations are planted, which will soon throw the owners of the depletion of the soil.In these forests are more than 25,000 species of plants.In African tropical forests climbing many kinds of animals and birds.It - gorillas, chimpanzees, baboons, monkeys, parrots, hoopoe.You can find a large number of elephants and antelopes.Tropical forests of Africa is inhabited by the most stunted people - Pygmies.These unique representatives of homo sapiens learned to live in complete harmony with nature.They are engaged in hunting, gathering of forest gifts and do not aspire to civilization.Their height reaches 1.4 meters, and they live in tents that protect them from the rain.For them, the very characteristic constant migration.
