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What kinds of environmental stressors do people living in temperate deciduous forests or tropical rainforests have to cope with? Outline some of the strategies used by people living in that biome to minimize the effects of these environmental stressors
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What kinds of environmental stressors do people living in temperate deciduous forests or tropical rainforests have to cope with? Outline some of the strategies used by people living in that biome to minimize the effects of these environmental stressors Introduction The tropical rain forest is one of the largest natural vegetation throughout the wet tropics, and one of the world's most widespread biomes. The rainforest biome is located in the tropics, mainly within the equatorial climate belt. The tropical Rainforest form an integral part of the earth's biosphere, covering around 2% of the earth's surface and being present in every continent except Antarctica. It includes the Amazon and Congo basins and the coastal lands of Ecuador, West Africa, and extreme south-east Asia. The defining characteristics of the tropical rain forest are temperature and rainfall. It is an extremely different and multifaceted environment. The Rainforest Climate is the wettest of the vegetation zones...
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