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The Rainforests:The Life
When you're willing to know more about rainforest, the first thing that you can know is usually that rainforest covers only 6% on the surface on this planet. Still, it houses over half of the world’s animal and plant species in comparison with other biological communities of the world. Hence, a rainforest is nothing but a tall and highly dense jungle that receives large quantities of rainfall annually. This is the way rainforest has been named.
About rainforest, an extra important point that you should know is they have four layers to them. The Emergent Layer includes the tallest trees which are 200 feet over the floor from the forest. Next would be the Canopy Layer which is the principal layer of the forest which is often considered to be the top for the next two layers- Understory Layer and also the Forest Floor. The Understory Layer includes plants which do not grow above 12 feet and houses animals and insects. However, the Forest Floor is very dark due to the deficiency of the sun's rays that hardly reaches the layer.
Generally, the climate of a typical rainforest is hot and humid. It is considered that there are some 3000 plants housed within the rainforest with anti-cancer chemical substances. A lot of other pharmaceutical prescription medication is also developed through the plants of rainforest. Moreover, it's the recycling center on earth for oxygen production too and is transforming the carbon dioxide produced on Earth into oxygen continuously. In the midst, one of the extremely saddening facts about rainforest is that it is now being destroyed, at an alarming rate of more than 108,000 acres being lost almost frequently.
Amongst the highly popular rainforest across the world is definitely the Amazon rainforest that covers the basin of the world’s second longest river, Amazon. The Amazon rainforest is a home to an array of animals and plants of the universe. Approximately 1/10th of mammal species and 1/5th of birds and plant species are housed in this rainforest. Most significantly, the Amazon rainforest is known as the Earth’s lungs for it produces over 20%of Earth’s oxygen that's far more than any single source, hence, the key origin of air that we breathe.
