BORNEO RAINFOREST The tropical rainforest is earth’s most complex biome in terms of both structure and species diversity. Tropical Rainforests can be found in South and Central America‚ Africa‚ Oceania (the islands around Australia)‚ and Asia (15).Tropical rainforests cover only about 7% of the Earth’s surface (13‚ )All Tropical Rainforests have similar characteristics including climate‚ precipitation‚ etc. They are located in a band around the equator. However‚ not every tropical rainforest can
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Describe and explain the seasonal variations in climate in a tropical region (10 marks) The seasonal variations in climate‚ in a tropical region‚ which includes temperature‚ precipitation and wind direction‚ are due to a number of factors. The tropical continental climate in Africa‚ north of the equator‚ can be described as transitional‚ as it is between the rainforest margins of the central African rainforest and also
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forest area‚ with most damage occurring in the last 200 years. Many of the main causes of the rainforest destruction include: logging‚ agriculture-shifted‚ cultivators‚ agricultures-cash‚ crops and cattle‚ ranching‚ fuelwood‚ large dams‚ mining and industry‚ colonization schemes‚ and tourism. In most cases‚ this is untrue due to the nature of rainforests and of logging practices. Large areas of rainforest are destroyed in order to remove only a few logs. The heavy machinery used to penetrate the
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the Indian Ocean. The rainforests of Madagascar are located in very humid‚ low-elevation‚ and narrow regional strips along the east coast of the island. The Madagascar rainforest is just another ecosystem‚ it actually acts as a home to many endangered species including the silky sifaka‚ sportive lemur‚ and the red-ruffed lemur. Another very important species that is indigenous to this rainforest is the rosy periwinkle‚ which is used to cure leukemia. Furthermore‚ rainforest are distinguished by receiving
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Brazilian Rainforest is home to a myriad of exotic animals‚ each equipped with their own fair share of abilities to survive in the wild. There are one thousand seven hundred species of birds‚ six hundred ninety-five amphibious species‚ six hundred fifty-one species of reptiles and five hundred seventy-eight mammalian species (Butler‚ 2014). In Brazil resides one-third of the world’s rainforests‚ which is nestled right around the Earth’s equator (Butler‚ 2014). As a result‚ the rainforests experience
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RESEARCH TOPIC: The effects of climate change on coral reef ecosystems Wild‚ C.‚ Hoegh-Guldberg‚ O.‚ Naumann‚ M.S.‚ Colombo-Pallotta‚ M.F.‚ Ateweberhan‚ M.‚ Fitt‚ W.K. Iglesias-Prieto‚ R.‚ Palmer‚ C.‚ Bythell‚ J.C.‚ Ortiz‚ J.C.‚ Loya‚ Y.‚ and Van Woesik‚ R. (2011). Climate Change impedes scleractinian corals as primary reef ecosystem engineers. Marine and Freshwater Research‚ 62.2‚ 205-215. The article researches the effects of climate change on primary reef ecosystem engineers‚ such as Scleratinian
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Describe how igneous activity can affect the landscape Igneous intrusions form when cooling‚ crystallization and loss of gases cause a once fluid magma to solidify. Most rocks that form intrusions originate as either granitic or basaltic magma. Granitic magmas are low density and small quantities‚ just a few kilometers wide‚ rise slowly through the earth’s upper crust‚ pushing existing country rock aside. However‚ very large granite masses‚ which can be up to 1‚000 times larger‚ are formed when magma
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they may even vanish from the ecosystem altogether. Similarly‚ over some time interval‚ other species within the community may become more abundant‚ or new species may even invade into the community from adjacent ecosystems. This observed change over time in what is living in a particular ecosystem is "ecological succession". why it occurs Every species has a set of environmental conditions under which it will grow and reproduce most optimally. In a given ecosystem‚ and under that ecosystem’s
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The Borneo Rainforest is located in Borneo which is the third largest island in the world and is located north of Java‚ Indonesia‚ at the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia. The Rainforest is 130 million years old‚ which makes it the oldest rainforest in the world. The Borneo rainforest is one of the only remaining natural habitats for the endangered Bornean Orangutan. It is an important refuge for many endemic forest species‚ including the Asian Elephant‚ the Sumatran Rhinoceros‚ the
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Agriculture in the Amazon Rainforest Throughout a hundred centuries people have worked hard to sustain productive agriculture and dense human populations. Certain forms of agriculture are possible‚ and should be considered sustainable‚ for the economic development of tropical rainforests. For thousands of years humans have created a disturbance in the rainforests by creating areas of concentrated diversity of species within the landscape. The Indigenous people of the Amazon fostered palm forests
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