The rainforest ecosystem
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- Created on: 04-06-19 15:53
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- Example of a Biome - the Rainforest ecosystem.
- Found along the equator
- They cover about 6% of the total land area.
- contain the most diverse range of plant and animal life found anywhere on earth.
- Rainforest Nutrient Cycle
- very delicate
- 80% of nutrients come from the trees and plants.
- 20% in soil.
- Hot, damp conditions allow for rapid decomposition
- Nutrients are high in demand from the rainforest's fast-growing plants.
- Nutrients dont remain in the soil long.
- Herbivores eat plants.
- nutrients return to the soil after they die .
- decomposers.
- nutrients return to the soil after they die .
- Rainforest Water Cycle
- Roots of plants take up water from the ground.
- rain is intercepted by canopy level.
- Water evaporates when rainforest heats up.
- convectional rainfall.
- forest is a great store of water.
- Rainfall feeds amazon river.
- Rainforest Carbon Cycle
- Plants absorb CO2 during photosynthesis.
- Rainforests store more carbon per unit than any other ecosystem.
- When a plant dies the carbon within it is released back into the environment.
- Soil is an important source of carbon when plants/animals die.
- forests burned - 30 -60% carbon lost to atmosphere.
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