Disappearing of Tropical Rainforest

Characteristic
1. Luxuriant growth
2. Evergreen nature
3. Layered structure
4. Tree with speical features
5. Rich diversity of plant species
Physical enviornment
1. Temperature
2. Rainfall
  1. convection rain
Nutrient cycling
1. Biomass = total weight of living organism (the largest)
2. Litter (the smallest)
3. Soil
Destruction in rainforest
1. Commerical agriculture
  1. cattle ranching
  2. plantation
2. Small-scale farming
  1. shifting cultivation
  2. subsistence farming
3. commerical logging
  1. selective logging
  2. clear-cutting
4. Infrastructure and mining activities
  1. roads and highways
  2. dams (HEP)
  3. mining and oil gas exploitation
Cause of destruction
1. population growth
2. poverty
3. government policy
4. Shifting diet and globalized market
5. rising global price of timber
6. technological advancement
Effect of large-scale tropical rainforest
1. Natural envirnment
  1. Atmospheric enviorment
  2. Hydrosphere enviornment
  3. Lithospheric environment
  4. Biosphere
2. Human envionrment
  1. Threat to livelihood of the native people
Measures to portect TRF
1. Tapping more resources from existing cleared land
2. Restore degraded forested land
3. Establish and expand protected areas
4. Control the population size
5. Eco-tourism
6. Development of the national park

Resource summary

	Created by Priscilla Lee over 6 years ago