After finding out I brought 100,000 acres of the Amazon Rainforest. I decided to go and visit, to my surprise the land was in poor condition. I was trying to convince myself that the land didn’t look that bad, but who was I kidding it looked horrible. I had imagined the land to look like a tropical rain forest. That consisted of healthy green grassland with trees, plants, bodies of blue water, and a lot of animals. The Rainforest would have been wet and had warm climate. To help maintain the grassy areas, trees, and plants. Both the trees and plants play roles in the global climate and they support the water cycle. The bodies of water that flow all through the rainforest would be giant rivers, streams, basin, waterfalls, and lakes. The water’s would be a …show more content…
The plants, trees, and animals that were left after the destruction I would feed and give them nutrients. I would restore the biome by traveling to other parts of the Amazon rain forest and collect different organisms. The organisms I would bring over would be bacteria, fungi, trees, plants, and animals. The type of bacteria would be azotobacter vinelandii I would place it in the soil. The different types of fungi I would bring over would be lentinus strigosus, opinochordyceps, and hydnopolyporus. The trees I would bring over would be different species of trees such as the palm trees. There would be a palm tree that grows fruit. A palm tree known as the Euterpre precatoria tree that are spread throughout the basin in the flooded areas. The single trunk palm trees that have spines on the trunk, the palla trees, and the walking palm tree. Another species of trees would be the Kapok Tree. The diverse plants that would be brought over would be Bromeliad, Ferns, Orchids, Mosses, Vines and Cacti. The animals I would bring in would be butterflies, beetles, spiders, snakes, lizards, frogs, parrots, jaguars, sloths, and monkey
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The Redwood National forest in California is home to some of the tallest trees in the world. People from all over travel to see the beauty of these hundred year old redwood trees. These trees The park was established in 1968 and is a national and state park. Since the park has been established there has been around a 100,000 increase in tourists each year. The park consists of 131,983 acres of earthquake prone land in the northern part of California, just below the. The climate of the Redwood National forest varies from mild with high humidity and even temperatures, this climate is perfect for the redwood trees, to the more harsh, windy climates near the ocean. The biome is mainly temperate coniferous forest with mixes of redwood and evergreen
Rainforest can be very moist, hot, and humid due to all of the rainfall. The average rainfall is
The Amazon Rain Forest Is in Danger of Being Destroyed" by Devadas Vittal. Rain Forests. HaiSong Harvey, Ed. At Issue Series. Greenhaven Press, 2002. Reprinted from Devadas Vittal, Introduction: What Is the Amazon Rainforest? Internet: http://www.homepages.go.com/homepages/d/v/i/dvittal/amazon/intro.html, November 1999, by permission of the author. http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/ovic/ViewpointsDetailsPage/ViewpointsDetailsWindow?displayGroupName=Viewpoints&disableHighlighting=false&prodId=OVIC&action=e&windowstate=normal&catId=&documentId=GALE%7CEJ3010021212&mode=view
Bacteria and fungi are the most common decomposers in a rainforest and can be found in many different ecosystems. The three common producers in the Amazon rain forest are orchids, bengal bamboo, and the banana tree. Bacteria and fungi recycle dead material back into the soil so it can be reused. If the bacteria and fungi in an environment didn’t recycle all the dead material then Earth would be full of remains of dead plants and animals. Orchids, one of the three producers, can be found in the Amazon rainforest. Orchids can be found in many different colors and mostly grow on...
What would happen if one day the Amazon rainforest disappeared? The Amazon rainforest will disappear is not an assumption. It absolutely will be happen if people keep on deforesting the Amazon rainforest for many different demands. Huge amounts of area in Amazon were deforested because of agricultural pursuits. Also, the deforestation rate has increased in other ways, such as obtain more land for living and excessive uses of wood. Therefore, a large amount of trees were cut down and led to forest destruction. People have done these kinds of activities for many years and these deforestation activities have brought a lot of permanent and long term issues. Although the society has started to consider the problem of deforestation, it is not easy to solve the issues completely. The land desertification can be a huge area and it is almost cannot be able to control. In addition, it is not only threatening the people and animals in the Amazon, the world is also threatened by deforestation. Thus, deforestation is one of the biggest problems in the world that people have to consider because it costs three main long term effects: land desertification, species extinction and climate transformation.
A tropical rainforest is an ecosystem type which occurs roughly within the latitudes 28 degrees north and south of the equator. The forests are dominated by tall, closely spread trees, with a predominately continuous canopy. This ecosystem experiences high average temperatures and a significant amount of rainfall during the year. Elements of the biophysical environment of the biome and their interaction with each other Ecosystems develop in response to the interactions between biotic and abiotic components. Certain conditions in the atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere and biosphere must occur for the formation of tropical rainforests.
Living within the South American Amazon are countless plants, insects, and animals, as well as hundreds of thousands of indigenous people. For centuries, the Oriente region of the Ecuadorian Amazon was considered a paradise to its inhabitants- they took much pride in their ancestral land. However, within the past several decades, their lifestyle has been extremely altered, and the beautiful jungle they heavily rely on for their physical, spiritual, and cultural life, has been terribly exploited. This paper examines the historical, current, and future emerging abuses of the Amazon rainforest, often called the lungs of the world, in Ecuador by oil corporations, and subsequent effects such as loss of biodiversity and health consequences.
The rain forests are incredible places. They only cover 6 % of the world’s surface however they have more than ½ the world’s plant and animals species. A rain forest can be described as tall and thick jungles. There is a reason behind the forest being called a “Rain forest” and it is because the high rainfall it gets per year. On average, 50 to 260 inches of rain falls yearly. The temperature in a rain forest rarely gets higher than 34 ºC or drops below 20 ºC. The average humidity in a rainforest is between 77 to 88%. Rainfall is often more than 100 inches a year.
Almost half of the world's species of plants, animals and microorganisms will be destroyed or severely threatened over the next quarter century due to rainforest deforestation.
One reason that people should stop cutting down the rainforest is because many plants and animals are being harmed and losing their homes. The Amazon is home to many more than half of the world’s specimen of plants and animals. Over 70% of the rainforest’s animals and plants live on the subcanopy, or the second highest level of the trees. When you destroy even one tree, many plants and animals, either die or have to find new homes. Many of these tropical plants also have medicinal values such as curing malaria. Sadly, according to Michael Greenwell, the deforestation of the Amazon has led to 26 species of plants and animals and 644 species to be on the brink of endangerment. According to UNEP, about 857,666 square kilometers of land has been lost in one year. The area lost is approximately the size of Venezuela. To keep cutting down trees in the rainforest would be dooming 38 species to extinction. It may seem that the Amazon is vast in recourses and cutting down one tree will not harm much, but if we ...
In South America lies the largest and most wondrous rainforest in the world, the Amazon Rainforest. This 1.4 billion acre forest represents over half of the planets remaining rainforests, and comprises the largest and most bio-diverse tract of rainforest in the world. Ten percent of all known species on the planet are found in this rain forest, most of which have yet to be discovered. For the past century, the Amazon has been gradually decreasing in size due to agricultural expansion, ranching, infrastructure projects, energy exploration and illegal logging. At its current state, the Amazon is losing land equal to the size of the state of Delaware every year. The destruction of this forest releases 340 million tons of carbon per year according to the World Wildlife Foundation, or WWF, which in turn cause climate changes everywhere around the world. Undiscovered species can hold the key to curing a plethora of diseases, but if those species become extinct those keys are lost forever. If nothing is done to prevent this, the world’s treasure trove of bio-diversity will cease to exist, creating irreversible damage to not only the South American people but also the rest of the world.
In 1993 an experiment was conducted in the Amazonian Rainforest to test how dry soil would affect the ecosystem. The scientists built a 30 by 30 foot roof that would simulate a dying section of the rainforest by not allowing rain drops to fall from the leaves to the jungle floor . Previous experiments showed that moist soil would absorb methane, a potent greenhouse gas . The scientists hoped that in the face of extreme climate change, a dried out Rainforest would absorb more methane and would control the amount of methane, the key ozone destroying gas . Over 4 years of studying the opposite was found; the protected soil emitted up to 3 times more methane than the unprotected soil . Sulfur dioxide ejection into the atmosphere has a way of changing the
Tropical rainforests have many species of plants and animals. They are very interesting and many scientists today study it. Rainforests are an important part of our environment and it is important for us to protect it. That’s why we have to stop global warming.
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