Tropical forests occupy approximately10%of the world’s total land area, but they play a disproportionate role in global carbon and water cycles, and are believed to house
more than half of the world’s species. Tropical forests occupy a wide range of environments, and the structure and species composition vary with dry season length,altitude above sea level, and the occurrence of extreme soil types or regular inundation by fresh or saline water.
Lowland evergreen rain forests are the most diverse ecosystems on Earth, but the processes that generated and maintain this diversity are not fully understood. Forests are under threat throughout the tropics from clearance for agriculture, logging for timber, hunting, fires, climate change and other human impacts. Major conservation priorities include protecting large areas of intact forest ecosystems where still possible, improving the management of logged forests, controlling hunting, and reconnecting isolated forest fragments by restoring forest
between them.
Tropical forests occupy approximately10%of the world’s total land area, but they play a disproportionate role in global carbon and water cycles, and are believed to house
more than half of the world’s species. Tropical forests occupy a wide range of environments, and the structure and species composition vary with dry season length,altitude above sea level, and the occurrence of extreme soil types or regular inundation by fresh or saline water.
Lowland evergreen rain forests are the most diverse ecosystems on Earth, but the processes that generated and maintain this diversity are not fully understood. Forests are under threat throughout the tropics from clearance for agriculture, logging for timber, hunting, fires, climate change and other human impacts. Major conservation priorities include protecting large areas of intact forest ecosystems where still possible, improving the management of logged forests, controlling hunting, and reconnecting isolated forest fragments by restoring forest
between them.
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