tropical rainforest
- Created by: abicrawley12
- Created on: 30-08-22 18:54
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- tropical rainforest
- ecological features
- constant warm temp and regular high rainfall allows plants to grow throughout the year-reliable food supply
- high light level allow photosynthesis rates to be high-providing a lot of food energy to support a rich food web
- importance of tropical rainforest
- higher biodiversity increases the chances of finding species that are useful to humans(new food species)
- rainforest providing forest resources-timber, food and medicines
- important for increasing downwind rainfall
- trees store a large amount of carbon
- threats
- clearance of alternative land use
- climate change-droughts will cause more forest fires
- tourism-an expansion of tourism facilities can threaten habitats
- conservation efforts
- the korup national park in cameroon
- protects 1,260km of tropical rainforest
- the korup national park in cameroon
- ecological features
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