Living Life

Rainforests are clustered around the equator (Central and South America, Africa, South Asia and Australia) and occur on the 7% of the dry land surface of the planet where it is both warm enough and wet enough. There are temperate rainforests such as in the Olympic peninsula, but without tropical temperatures they have much lower […]

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The very conditions of warmth and moisture that are so favorable to the profusion of life in these forests are also responsible for rapid rates of decomposition. In contrast to cold or dry climates where decomposition is dramatically slow in comparison because of lack of warmth or moisture, in rainforests decomposition sets in almost the […]

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