Rainforest
Areas lush with trees, flora and fauna and characterized by high rainfall. Rainforest are habitat to 40 to 75 percent of the Earth's living species.
Rainforest Plants Produce Life-saving Medicines
Some 120 prescription drugs sold worldwide today are derived directly from rainforest plants. And according to the U.S.
rainforest - a large, dense forest in a hot, humid region (tropical or subtropical). Rainforests have an abundance of diverse plant and animal life, much of which is still uncatalogued by the scientific community.
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Carbon Offset - A reduction in carbon dioxide emissions by a project (such as rainforest preservation) that is sold to a purchaser to balance the purchaser's own emissions.
This rainforest, located on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington receives nearly 200 inches of rainfall per year. Litter inputs are tremendous, decomposition rates are fast, and soil weathering and leaching due to rainfall is accelerated.
biodiversity: Biodiversity is how many different kinds of plants and animals there are in one place. The rainforest is famous for its biodiversity because it has so many different species and a lot of them haven't even been discovered yet.
This reactive, natural hydrocarbon may influence the oxidative/reductive balance in the biosphere where its concentrations are significant, in regions such as rainforests and large temporal forests.
Biomes are characterised by a dominant vegetation and defined by the species within them. Examples include the desert biome and the rainforest biome.
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Deforestation is calculated to account for 20 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, or six billion tonnes, of CO2. Key regions are the Amazon in South America, the Congo rainforest in central Africa, and Indonesia.
The rainforests and tigers are examples of biotic resources.
By-Product A useful and marketable product or service that is not the primary product or service being produced. See also co-product.
It also means that many seabirds can live there... including penguins. All these things -- the oceans, the atmosphere, the hot and the cold parts of the planet, deserts, rainforests -- all depend upon climate and upon the sun.
the tundra biome, the tropical rainforest biome. Biorational insecticides Insecticides which have no, or relatively limited, adverse effects on other, non-pest organisms in the pest's environment.
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