Tropical rainforests

• Tropical rainforests are an important ecosystem with distinct characteristics and adaptations.
• Tropical rainforests face threats which need to be managed to ensure their survival.
• Sustainable management of tropical rainforests is crucial for their survival.
• Tropical rainforests have distinct characteristics that support a wide variety of different species.
• Individuals of different species are not able to interbreed successfully, which means that tropical rainforests have a high biodiversity.
• The biotic living elements of an ecosystem, such as plants and animals, or living components of the ecosystem and the abiotic non-living elements of an ecosystem, such as climate, temperature, water, and soil type, depend on one another - a change in one leads to a change in the other.
• The climate of tropical rainforests is very wet with over 2,000 mm of rainfall per year and very warm with an average daily temperature of 28°C.
• The temperature never drops below 20°C and rarely exceeds 35°C in tropical rainforests.
• The atmosphere in tropical rainforests is hot and humid.
• The soil in tropical rainforests is mostly not very fertile, with a thin layer of fertile soil found at the surface where the dead leaves decompose.
• The warm and very wet climate of tropical rainforests provides perfect conditions for plant growth, supporting many different animals, birds, and insects.
• Species in tropical rainforests have adapted to the conditions of the rainforest, for example, trees and plants have shallow-reaching roots to absorb nutrients from the thin fertile layer in the soil.
• A tropical rainforest is made up of the following layers: ground level shrub layer under canopy (main) canopy emergents emergent The tallest trees in a rainforest which benefit from more sunlight than other trees in the forest.