TRF
- Created by: ryandawkins31
- Created on: 06-05-18 12:11
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- Tropical Rainforest
- Characteristics
- Layers
- Forest Floor 0m
- Understory 20m
- Canopy 40m
- Emergents 50m
- Canopy 40m
- Understory 20m
- Forest Floor 0m
- Nutrients
- Litter= Smallest due to fast decay
- Biomass= Largest due to biodiversity
- Litter= Smallest due to fast decay
- Layers
- Importance
- Goods
- Drugs: >7000 originate in TRF
- Oxygen: TRFs are lungs of Earth
- Hardwood Timber: construction, fuel+ furniture
- Oxygen: TRFs are lungs of Earth
- Drugs: >7000 originate in TRF
- Services
- Biodiversity: Most diverse ecosystem in world
- Brings tourists
- Climate Change: acts as buffer, soaks CO2
- Indigenous people: basis of culture
- Climate Change: acts as buffer, soaks CO2
- Brings tourists
- Biodiversity: Most diverse ecosystem in world
- Goods
- Impacts of Climate Change
- Making some TRF hotter+ drier
- Reduced biodiversity
- Drier forest emits more CO2+ forest fires
- Poor water: less interception= more sediment into rivers
- Deforestation in Madagascar
- Caused by: agriculture, population growth, resource extraction
- Tavy= slash+burn to make room for crops
- Population= 4mil. 1950-> 20.7mil 2010
- Lose 14000 hectares per year- half left from1950
- Population= 4mil. 1950-> 20.7mil 2010
- Logging= Illegal, not heavily controlled
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