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Forest ecosystem
These ecosystem have dominance of trees with herbs, shrubs, climbers, lichens, algae, variety of wild animals, birds. Forest are found in undisturbed area Receives moderate to high rain fall Usually occurs as a stable climax community
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Types of forest
Depending on the prevailing climatic conditions forest can be of various types Tropical rain forests Tropical deciduous forests Tropical scrub forests Temperate rain forests Temperate deciduous forests Evergreen coniferous forests (boreal forests)
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Emergent layer: The trees up here are much more windblown than the trees of shorter layers.
Kapok
Canopy
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Orchids have special types of leaves to capture and hold water. Orchids have bright colors and attract insects such as wasps, bees, moths and butterflies. Some large epiphytes can hold 4lts of water. That is the reason for variety of birds, insects, animals like monkeys have their natural homes in these forests. (plate II)
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Understory: they receive very dim sunlight They develop dark green leaves with high chlorophyll content so that they can use diffused sunlight for photosynthesis. Jhansirani.R AP/ECE
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Flowers of forest are very large, colorful, fragnent & attractive which helps in pollination E.g. Rafflesia arnoldi 7Kg weight Smells like rotten meet
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BOREAL FORESTS
Terrestrial biome
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