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In places in the Ituri Rainforest of northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, G. dewevrei forms 90% of the tree species present in the canopy. [ 3 ] The floras of the Guineo-Congolian region and the adjoining Zambezian Region are for the most part almost mutually exclusive, apart from a small number of cosmopolitan species and a few others.
The Borneo lowland rain forests is an ecoregion, within the tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests biome, of the large island of Borneo in Southeast Asia. [1] It supports approximately 15,000 plant species, 380 bird species and several mammal species.
Closest to the sea is the rain forest zone, followed by the mixed deciduous forest zone and farthest inland tis he parkland zone. [2] In the rainforest zone ,the common trees are of the Leguminosae family ( Brachystegia ), Cylicodiscus gabunensis , Gossweilerodendron balsamiferum , Piptadeniastrum africanum , and the Meliaceae family ...
Inside the rainforest biome in Biosphere 2 in 2009. One view of Biosphere 2 was that it was "the most exciting scientific project to be undertaken in the United States since President John F. Kennedy launched us toward the moon". [72] Others called it "New Age drivel masquerading as science". [73] John Allen and Roy Walford did have mainstream ...
View of the temperate rain forest in Mount Revelstoke National Park, British Columbia, Canada. Butler, R. A. (2005) A Place Out of Time: Tropical Rainforests and the Perils They Face. Published online: Rainforests.mongabay.com; Richards, P. W. (1996). The tropical rain forest. 2nd ed. Cambridge University Press ISBN 0-521-42194-2
The Gurupa várzea ecoregion is named after the Ilha Grande de Gurupá, an alluvial island in the mouth of the Amazon. [1] The várzea extends along the lower Amazon River from the mouth of the Tapajós down to the mouth of the Xingu River. It has an area of 984,195 hectares (2,432,000 acres). [2]
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The Palawan rain forests ecoregion (WWF ID:IM0143) covers the Palawan Island Archipelago, centered on Palawan Island, the sixth largest island in the Philippines.The islands act as an ecological bridge between Borneo and the main islands of the Philippines, even though there were channels between the islands through the last ice age when sea levels were low.