Plants of the Equatorial forests. Features and value

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Plants of the Equatorial forests cannot fail to be of keen interest not only among specialists but also among ordinary curious travelers from around the world. And this is not surprising.

Agree, many of us tend to visit the overseas countries for these exotic species of flora. For example, plants of the Equatorial forests of South America or Africa are very unlike those of grasses, flowers, trees and shrubs that we used to see outside the window of his native city. They look quite different, smell and bloom, and thus cause mixed emotions. They want to get a closer look, touch and photograph them.

Plants of the Equatorial forests – this is a topic that is infinitely much to tell. This article is intended to acquaint the reader with the most characteristic properties and habitat conditions of these representatives of the world flora.

General information

plants rainforest

First of all, let's try to define such a concept as the humid Equatorial forests. Plants, habitats which are regions with a pronounced Equatorial, subequatorial and tropical climate, inhabit this natural area. You should pay attention to the fact that in this case, to various kinds of flora can be attributed not only grass, but many trees and shrubs.

At first glance it is difficult to imagine, but then observed up to 2000 or even 10 000 mm of precipitation per year.

Data For land areas characterized by a huge biodiversity, it is here that the 2/3 lives of all plants and animals on our planet. By the way, not everyone is aware that millions of species still not described.

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On the lower tier in the tropical forests is not enough light, but the undergrowth, tended to faint, so people can easily move around on it. However, if for some reason the leaf canopy is absent or weakened, the lower level can quickly be covered with impenetrable thickets of vines and tangled trees. This is called the jungle.

Climate Equatorial forest

animals and plants rainforest

The Animals and plants of the Equatorial forests, as we have said, are varied. This is due to the current climate and, therefore, it is necessary to talk in more detail.

This zone stretches along the equator with an offset to the South. The average year-round temperature is 24-28 degrees. The climate is quite hot and humid, although the seasons are implicitly.

This area refers to the region of low pressure, and precipitation here falls evenly all year. Such climatic conditions favor the development of evergreen vegetation, which is characterized by the so-called clonarea structure of the forest.

Fauna of the Equatorial areas of the planet

plants of the Equatorial forests of South America

As a rule, tropical evergreen forests, which are located by a narrow strip or a kind spots along the equator, is diverse and has a huge number of types. It is difficult to imagine that only in the basin of the Congo and the Gulf of Guinea and they are currently more than a thousand.

Plants of the Equatorial forests of the upper tier features a giant ficus and palm trees, and more than 200 species. At the bottom grow mainly bananas and tree ferns.

Most large plants are often entwined with vines and blooming orchids. By the way, it should be noted that sometimes in the Equatorial forests, there are up to six storeys. Among plants there are the epiphytes-mosses, lichens, ferns.

But in the depths of the forest you can find the largest flower of the planet - Rafflesia Arnoldi, the transverse diameter of which reaches 1 meter.

Fauna Equatorial forest

plants rainforest

Hardly anyone will be surprised if we note that the fauna of Equatorial forest, especially rich in monkeys. Especially often and in large quantities there are monkeys, chimps, gorillas, Howler monkeys and bonobos.

The land creatures can often find small ungulates, for example, in Africa, tourists often admire the Okapi, an African deer and other unusual animals. The most common predators of the jungle of South America, of course, are the Jaguar and Puma. But in the African tropics, the owners are quick leopards and huge tigers.

Due to the wet environmental conditions in the Equatorial forests are home to many frogs, lizards and insects. Among the birds are the most common hummingbirds, parrots and toucans.

As for the reptiles, who do not know about the pythons of Africa and Asia and the Anaconda of the Amazon jungle? In addition, in Equatorial forests of common poisonous snakes, alligators, caimans and other dangerous animals.

What happens if you destroy the plants of the Equatorial forests?

wet Equatorial forest plants

During the cutting of Equatorial forests, sometimes without even knowing destroys the habitat of many animals and steal food from the termites. In addition, this forest still holds back the offensive and harmful to allthe living deserts.

But that's not all. The fact that the moist Equatorial forest, although occupy a relatively small portion of Land, the so-called green lungs of our planet. It was here that produces about 1/3 of the Earth's oxygen, so the destruction of the Equatorial forest will cause irreversible ecological consequences, including the increase in carbon dioxide. The latter, in turn, will lead to an increase in average temperature, would increase the likelihood of melting of glaciers and, therefore, entail the subsequent submerging of many fertile lands.


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