Tropical rainforests are hot and wet ... Emergent The tallest trees in the forest, some over 50 m in height. Parrots and bats live here. Parrots have sharp beaks to crack open nuts and large ...
The tropical forest biome is estimated to contain over half of the terrestrial species on Earth. Approximately 170,000 of the 250,000 described species of vascular plants occur in tropical biomes.
Tropical forest plants regenerate either from sources from within the site (seed bank, resprouting from roots and stems, or remnant vegetation) or colonization by seeds dispersed from outside the ...
The first edition of The Tropical Rain Forest is firmly established as one of the classics of botanical ... this remarkable book is a unique source of detailed empirical knowledge on the ecology and ...