Tropical rainforest animals and plants, rainforest in the tropics found peninsula covering Central America, South America, Africa, Madagascar, Northern Australia, Indonesia and Malaysia. In this forest there are various types of plants that can live as it gets sunshine and adequate rainfall.
The characteristics of rain forest biome include:
Tropical rainforest biome
- Rainfall is very high, more than 2,000 mm / year
- The main trees have a height between 20-40 m.
- Leafy tree branches and wide and always green throughout the year
- Receive enough sunlight, but sunlight is not able to penetrate the forest floor.
- Having microclimate in the environment around the surface of the soil / beneath canopy (leaves on large trees that form the hood)
Plant species that live in rain forest areas, among others:
tropical rainforest plants
tropical rainforest plants
Because the trees are found in tropical forests on average relatively high and the soil surface is often inundated by water, so many animals that live in rain forested areas is similar animals climber primates, such as:
tropical rainforest animals
tropical rainforest animals