Thursday, March 24, 2011

Vegitation Layers in a Tropical Rainforest

The four layers of the tropical rainforest are emergent layer, main canopy, under canopy and shrub layer/forest floor.
Each layer has a different type of wildlife. 
The forest floor is occupied by bugs, centipedes, beetles, earthwormspeccaries, wild pigs, wild boars, tapirs, fungi and other animals and ground plants like shrubs, but because of the dark the plants struggle to survive. 
The understory layer is occupied by jaguars, red-eyed tree frogs and leopards. There are also a lot of bugs in the understory. 
The canopy has snakes, toucans,  tree frogs, ect. Because of the large range of food there are a lot of animals in this layer.
The emergent layer has bats, birds, butterflies, and monkeys. There are tall trees too.


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