How are tropical forests better than temperate forests for species diversification when 40% of tropical forests have already been deforested and only 1% of temperate have been deforested?
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Tropical forest
Tropical forest
- The tropical rainforests has equatorial climate and experiences heavy rainfall, high temperature throughout the year.
- The trees here grow very close to each other. They grow around near the Equator belt.
- Thy are largely found in amazon basin, These trees are rich repository of natural medicines., Important plants found are teak.rosewood. Animals found are Black Bear, Baboon. Lion.
- Temperate forests are found between tropical and subtropical regions, found in northern and souther hemisphere.
- These forests are characterised by high level of precipitation, humidity.
- These forests receive annual rainfall of 40 to 150 inches, There are temperate rainforest , temperate coniferous forest . Some of the trees found are oak, ash, maple, birch, beech, poplar, elm and pine. Animals found are giant red panda, mountain lions, deer.