Biomes research

Indonesia is in the tropical forest biome and desert biome. Eastern side of Africa for instance Madagascar is in the rainforest biome and so is Malaysia! In an average year, in a tropical rain forest, the climate is very humid because of all the rainfall! Rainfall amounts to about 250 cm per year. The rain forest has lots of rain because it is very hot and wet. This climate is found near the equator(which is why Indonesia is a tropical biome forest). That means that there is more direct sunlight hitting the land and sea there than anywhere else. The main plants in this biome are trees. A lot of the rain that falls on the rain forest never reaches the ground. It stays on the trees because the leaves act as a shield, and some rain never gets past the trees to the smaller plants and grounds below. Trees in this climate reach a height of more than 164 feet. The annual precipitation of a rain forest is greater than 150 cm. The rain forest is different from a lot of other climates. In other climates, the evaporation is carried away to fall as rain in far off areas, but in the rain forests, 50 % of the precipitation comes from its own evaporation. The average temperature of a rain forest is about 77 degree Fahrenheit. The rain forest is about the same temperature year round and rarely changes dramatically. The temperature never drops below 64 degrees Fahrenheit. Rain forests are so hot because they are found near the equator. Indonesia’s vegetation is similar to that of the Philippines, Malaysia, and Papua New Guinea. There are some 40,000 species of flowering plants. There are more than 3,000 tree species, including Duran, which are the large bears. Woody rattan vines are abundant in Indonesia’s forests. Thousands of plant species are exploited for economic purposes, either directly or indirectly. Another typical feature of Indonesian vegetation is the mangrove forest, characterized by the formation of prop-rooted trees, which grow only in salty water along muddy shores. Mangrove swamps are extensively developed along the shallow seas on eastern Sumatra and the southeastern segment of western New Guinea. Many of the islands contain endemic species. Among these are such birds as the Javanese peacock and the Sumatran drongo,A giant lizard, the prehistoric Komodo dragon, which attains a length of 12 feet lives on two small islands! The two islands are Rinca and Komodo, between Sumbawa and Flores.

Indonesia is in the tropical forest biome and desert biome.

Indonesia has an enormous and varied insect life that includes many unusual species. Examples include giant walkingsticks that can attain 8 inches in length, leaf insects , huge atlas beetles, elegant luna moths, and beautiful birdwing butterflies.

The reason there are so many animals inhabiting the worlds tropical rainforest is that the conditions are optimal for survival. There is plenty of food and water, there is shade from the heat, and plenty of shelter from the rain.

Many animals of the rainforest are camouflaged which aids them in avoiding predators.

Some animals have adaptations that enable them to eat food that other animals can't. For example parrots have strong beaks that crack the shells of very hard nuts.

As human population grows the need for agriculture, energy and development space increases with it. Tropical rainforests cover a massive amount of the world’s tree surface, each year over 90,000 square miles of the forests are harvested for human use. This deforestation has worried environmentalists because of the release of carbon from the machinery. The carbon dioxide is very harmful for the air and humans. It is believed that deforestation may accelerate the effects of global warming and transform the rainforest climate. The impact humans have on the forest is very bad and pretty much negative!

The lumber, agriculture, and mining industries are more major impacts on the tropical rainforest. They all require large areas of forest to be cleared so that they can take place. In mining large areas of forest are cleared and roads are built to access the mines. This greatly affects the diversity in the area because of the loud construction noises as well as pollution. The lumber and agriculture industries also have a very adverse affect on tropical rainforests. This is chiefly due to the fact that the soil fertility is only good enough to grow crops for a few years after it has been cleared. This leads to farmers clearing more and more forest each year to satisfy the needs of consumers.

Environmentalists estimate that we are losing 137 plant, animal, and insect species every day due to rainforest deforestation. The economic development in these areas are polluting tropical rainforests, reducing the habitat of numerous species!

Human activity and development in the tropical rainforest has lead to massive amounts of forest land being converted into other human uses. Overexploitation of the rain forests and Natural resource is a highly damaging impact that humans have on the rainforest.

However human activity in the Rainforest Biome has allowed for the discovery and implementation of many different medicines, nearly 120 prescription medications today are derived from plants in the tropical rainforest, nearly two thirds of these drugs are known to have cancer fighting properties, not only are the drugs used to combat cancer, they are key in fighting malaria, heart disease, hypertension.

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