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The Rainforests:The Life
When you are willing to know more about rainforest, first of all that you need to know is the fact rainforest covers only 6% of the surface on this planet. Still, it houses over half of the world’s animal and plant species in comparison to other biological communities of the world. Hence, a rainforest is nothing but a tall and highly dense jungle that receives high amount of rainfall annually. This is the way rainforest have been named.
About rainforest, one more important point that you got to know is they have four layers to them. The Emergent Layer includes the tallest trees that are 200 feet over the floor of the forest. Next is the Canopy Layer which is the principal layer of the forest and it is often regarded as the top for the following two layers- Understory Layer and also the Forest Floor. The Understory Layer includes plants which don't grow more than 12 feet and houses animals and insects. On the other hand, the Forest Floor is rather dark as a result of deficiency of sun rays that hardly reaches the layer.
Generally, the climate of a typical rainforest is hot and humid. It is considered that there is some 3000 plants housed in the rainforest with anti-cancer chemical substances. Plenty of other pharmaceutical drugs are also developed through the plants of rainforest. Moreover, it is the recycling center on earth for oxygen production too and it is transforming the co2 produced on the globe into oxygen continuously. In the midst, among the extremely saddening facts about rainforest is it is being destroyed, at an escalating rate of more than 108,000 acres being lost almost regularly.
Amongst the highly popular rainforest globally is definitely the Amazon rainforest that covers the basin of the world’s second longest river, Amazon. The Amazon rainforest is the home to a wide variety of animals and plants found on earth. It's estimated that 1/10th of mammal species and 1/5th of birds and plant species are housed within this rainforest. Above all, the Amazon rainforest is recognized as the Earth’s lungs for it produces a lot more than 20%of Earth’s oxygen which is far more than any single source, hence, the key supply of air that we breathe.
