tropical rainforest
Humid equatorial woodland
A tropical rainforest is a dense forest found near the equator, characterized by high rainfall, warm temperatures year-round, and extraordinary biodiversity.
These forests form layered canopies that block most sunlight from reaching the ground.
The Amazon, Congo, and Southeast Asian rainforests are the largest examples.
Tropical rainforests produce much of the world's oxygen.
- heavy rainfallIntense sustained precipitation
- strangler figsTrees engulfing host plants
- biodiversityRange of life forms
- jungleDense tropical forest
- deforestationLarge-scale woodland elimination
logging roads · medicinal plants · jaguars · understory · endemic species · poison dart frogs · epiphytes · toucans · exotic birds · carbon sequestration · canopy · indigenous communities · Congo Basin · ferns · ethnobotany · howler · vines · dense
- rainforest habitatcanopy, trees, jungle, dense vegetation, undergrowth
- Central AfricaCongo, Belgian Congo, Chad, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- South American biomesllanos, pampas, Patagonia, Altiplano, Amazon basin
- plant geographyfloristic regions, native flora, native plants, desert flora, neotropical
- Western Ghatscoffee plantations, tea plantations, evergreen forests, deciduous forests, tiger reserve
- ecosystemsdesert, jungle, ocean, lake, river
tropical rainforestdesert
To leave behind completely
Sahara Desert · hot desert · dryland · savanna · Arabian Desert
tropical rainforesttundra
Frigid treeless biome
polar desert · boreal forest · taiga · alpine tundra · ice cap
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