Malaysia Rainforest Pictures
This pictures taken at FRIM Kuala Lumpur (Forest Research Institute of Malaysia). What is rainforest?? From Wikipedia :
A rainforest, or a wet forest, is a forested biome with high annual rainfall. Tropical rainforests arise due to the Intertropical Convergence Zone, but temperate rain forests also exist. In addition to prodigious rainfall, many rainforests are characterized by a high number of resident species and tremendous biodiversity of their flora and fauna.
The largest tropical rainforests exist in the Amazon basin (the Amazon Rainforest), in Nicaragua (Los Guatuzos, Bosawás and Indio-Maiz), the southern Yucatan peninsula-El Peten-Belize contiguous area of Central America (including the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve), in much of equatorial Africa from
Cameroon to the Democratic Republic of Congo, in much of southeastern Asia from Myanmar to Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, eastern Queensland, Australia and in some parts of the United States. Outside of the tropics, temperate rainforests can be found in British Columbia, southeastern Alaska, western Oregon and Washington, the western Caucasus (Ajaria region of Georgia), parts of the western Balkans, New Zealand, Tasmania, and parts of eastern Australia.While it's commonly believed that rainforests provide much of the oxygen for the planet, and are the "lungs of the world", most rainforests do not in fact provide oxygen for the rest of the world.
Through the decomposition of dead plant matter, rainforests consume as much oxygen as they produce, except in certain conditions (primarily swamp forests) where the dead plant matter does not decay, but is preserved underground instead (ultimately to form new coal deposits over enough time). Still, rainforests act as major consumers of atmospheric carbon and may play a large role in cooling air that passes through them. As such, many scientists feel that the rainforests are of vital importance within the global climate system.This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Metasyntactic variable".
Pictures by kamarozz a.b.
