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6.267% [3] 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.
Another factor causing the loss of rainforest is expanding urban areas. Littoral rainforest growing along coastal areas of eastern Australia is now rare due to ribbon development to accommodate the demand for seachange lifestyles. [47] Forests are being destroyed at a rapid pace. [48] [49] [50] Almost 90% of West Africa's rainforest has been ...
The Amazon rainforest, [a] also called Amazon jungle or Amazonia, is a moist broadleaf tropical rainforest in the Amazon biome that covers most of the Amazon basin of South America. This basin encompasses 7,000,000 km 2 (2,700,000 sq mi), [ 2 ] of which 6,000,000 km 2 (2,300,000 sq mi) are covered by the rainforest . [ 3 ]
For comparison, a tropical rainforest biome may contain thousands of tree species, but this is not to say mangrove forests lack diversity. Though the trees are few in species, the ecosystem that these trees create provides a habitat for a great variety of other species, including as many as 174 species of marine megafauna .
The Amazon biome has an area of 6,700,000 square kilometres (2,600,000 sq mi). [2] [a] The biome roughly corresponds to the Amazon basin, but excludes areas of the Andes to the west and cerrado (savannah) to the south, and includes lands to the northeast extending to the Atlantic ocean with similar vegetation to the Amazon basin. [2]
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 ...
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.
Vertical panorama providing a cross-sectional view of layers of vegetation in the interior of tropical rainforest in Namdapha Tiger Reserve, Arunachal Pradesh, India The tropical vegetation of north-east India (which includes the states of Assam , Nagaland , Manipur , Mizoram , Tripura and Meghalaya as well as the plain regions of Arunachal ...