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The AmazonAustralasiaAfricaSouthern AsiaCentral America
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LocationNorthern Brazil, Amazon River Basin, whole Venezuela except for the northern part, Northern Bolivia, East of Colombia, Surinam, French Guyana and Guyana, East Peru and East Ecuador. Go to http://library.thinkquest.org/21395/graphics/geography/images/largemap.jpg From Kimberley region to Cape York and down to Tasmania.Central Africa.western sahara, mauritania, mali, algeria, niger, libya, chad, egypt this forests are located in vietnam,malaysia,indonesia,nepal and india hey are usually found in wet places near the tropics, but not as neerer as the tropical rainforests, those are situated just in the midle of the tropicsBelize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua and Panama
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ClimateWarm temperature throughout the year: between 20 and 34 ª C- Rain falls approximately 250 days of the year. There are about 100 inches (250 centimeters) of rainfall per year in the Amazon with the forest creating about half of its own rainfall.Is continuosly humid and warm 20 - 30°C Rainfall: over 1300 mm per year.the climate of the rainforest is the opposite of the climate of the desert.th latitude range of this climate is 16° S to 20° N latitude, and the longitude range is 95° to 130° EIs about 80°F (26°C) and has little daily or seasonal variation in temperature. In addition, tropical rainforests have an average of 100 inches (254 cm) of precipitation annually. This occur in equatorial regions near 25 degrees north and south latitude.
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FLORAEmergent layer: kapok tree and Brazil nut tree - Canopy layer: �Thick, woody vines (lianas); �Epiphytes grow on the trees: orchids, ferns, mosses, lichens and others. - Understorey layer: �Trees: Solar-collecting dark green leaves: dwarf palms, acanthus, prayer plant, etc. �Plants rely on insects for pollination - �plants have had to adapt to
poor soil with few nutrients: anthurium, caladium,  colocasia, philodendron and garden callas - Forest floor: �Almost no plants grow of 0% light and 100% humidity Mosses, herbs and fungi grow here.




 

These forests contain numerous tree ferns, southern beech and giant kauri trees. There are many trees that lend the humanity their fruits as: ginger, cofee, black bean , etc.Australia has over 1000 species of acacia, which Australians call ‘wattle’, and around 2800 species in the Myrtaceae family. The high diversity of flora includes large numbers of species in ecologically significant genera such as Acacia, Eucalyptus, Melaleuca,Grevillea and Allocasuarina. Acacias tend to dominate in drier inland parts of Australia, while eucalypts dominate in wetter parts. Australia’s unique flora includes the Proteaceae family of Banksia, Dryandra, Grevillea, Hakea and Telopea (waratah).Fauna of Africa, in its broader sense, is all the animals living on the African continent and its surrounding seas and islands. The more characteristic African fauna is found in the Afrotropical ecoregion - formerly called Ethiopian (the Sub-Saharan Africa).[1] Lying almost entirely within the tropics, and equally to north and south of the equator creates favourable conditions for rich wildlif.the bambusa tulda can be found in this biome on the souther rainforest, it generaly grow in ndergrown, pandas eat those plants, they help them to grow in a healphy way, without disseases,It does very well in a moist environment with a lot of rainfall. It likes temperatures between 40 degrees Fahrenheit and 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Rainforests get around 100 inches of rain per year. Rainforests are found mainly around the equator. They hold many varieties of plants and animals. The vegetation in rainforests grows in layers. Some of the layers get sunlight, but the bottom layers get little or no sunlight. This particular bamboo can grow anywhere between 40 feet and 80 feet in height. It is approximately 3 inches in diameter at maturity. This bamboo has dark green straight stalky culms, wich are the steams.

There are different types of trees, lianas, orchids, bromeliads andpitcher
plant vines: mahogany, rosewood, durian, cassia and palms are some of the trees
that habit there. Pitcher plant vines are carnivorous plants that belong to the plant
family Nepenthaceae. Bromeliads are an important part of
the rainforest ecosystem, providing food and shelter to a wide variety of wildlife
including small crustaceans, insect larvae, bacteria, amphibians and birds.
Orchids have a rare feature among plants, in that they have developed a method
of maintaining water by only opening the stomata (small holes) in their leaves
at night. This helps to prevent evaporation of water within the plant during
the hottest parts of the day.



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FAUNAMammas: jaguar, giant otter, pink dolphin, sloth, armadillo, anteater, tapir, manatee.       Birds: harpy eagle, toucan, humming bird    Reptiles: boa, crocodile, alligator, turtle   Amphibian: toad, frog, tree frog, dart poison frog    Fish: red piranha, electric eel, pirarucu    Insects: cockroach, rhinocerous beetle, morpho butterfly, termite, ant, etcIn Australia there are more than 378 species of mammals, 828 species of birds, 300 species of lizards, 140 species of snakes and two species of crocodiles. Of the mammals, almost half are marsupials.Australia has more than 140 species of marsupials, including kangaroos, wallabies, koalas, wombats and the Tasmanian Devil, which is now found only in Tasmania. Of the 828 bird species listed in Australia, about half are found nowhere else.Australia has more species of venomous snakes than any other continent (21 of the world’s 25 deadliest snakes).There are reptiles, tigers and elephants from Malaysia and Thailand. There is an abundant variety of mammals species (515, with 40% endemic)The Bengal tiger lives in the Sundarban regions of India, Bangladesh, China, Siberia, and Indonesia. The tiger reaches maturity at the age of five, and the life span of the tiger is about 15 years. The Bengal tiger mates about any time of year. The Bengal tiger can have a litter of up to four cubs. The cubs don't hunt for themselves until they are at least 18 months old. Then they go hunting with their mother. The gestation period is about three months and ten days.

The Bengal tiger is a carnivore. It eats boars, wild oxen, monkeys, and other animals. The Bengal tiger can catch big animals, but prefers killing either young or old animals because they don't run as fast. The Bengal tiger is a nocturnal and greatly feared predator. It eats wild oxen and other animals, which eat plants , which are part of the food web. So it helps balance the web.		Insects morphobutterfly, Julia butterfly, Monarch butterfly, and millions of other insects.Mammals: jaguar, ocelot, didelphid opossums, sloth, howler monkey, spider monkey, capybara, many bats, marmosets, procyonids, peccaries.
Birds: quetzal, macaw, tinamous, curassows, hoatzins, hummingbirds, eagles, ovenbirds, antbirds, flycatchers, puffbirds, toucans, jacamars, tanagers, tapirs, troupials, honeycreepers, cardinal grosbeaks,xenops)
Reptiles: anaconda, caiman, iguanas, lizards, microteiid lizards, boas, and coral snakes, amphibians (poison arrow frog, etc.
Fish: electric eel, piranha, and millions of other animals.
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HUMAN IMPACTdeforestation: Cattle ranching is the leading cause of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon (70% of deforestation is due to cattle ranching). Soybeans have become one of the most important contributors to deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. Logging in the Amazon is closely linked with road building. Mining has impacted some parts of the Amazon Basin. During the 1980s, over 100,000 prospectors invaded the state of Para when a large gold deposit was discoveredThe humans are cutting a lot of trees and not planting them and this forest is disapearing in a slow progress. ????we are cutting all the trees and we just stop the growing of new plants in forests or in many sectors, sometimes people on the fields give their cattle a lot of grass, so they eat it all and then that biome full of vegetation ends up like a dessert, that is desertification.One of the different problems is the demand of meat and tree products. If we stop consuming meat, in excess, and tree products, then they stop chopping trees. However, the environmental impact keeps increasing mainly because we keep reproducing. This rainforest has experienced deforestation on a catastrophic scale. The abundant rainforest is about to disappear. It has a 98% of its original undisturbed old growth forest disappeared. The cutting of forests for firewood, agriculture and timber sales, exacerbated by the extreme poverty among the rural population, has been the driving forces for this forest loss. Many different animals are loosing their homes because of the tree cutting
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