The Environmental Impact Of The Borneo Lowland Rainforests

The ecosystem of a tropical rainforest is comprised of different functions and structures. There are abiotic and biotic components that make up the ecosystem along with the biogeochemical cycle. There will be an investigated look on 1 natural and 1 human cause of disturbance to the tropical rainforest ecosystem and how sustainability can be applied and humans can act as good stewards to support in the reclamation efforts of the tropical rainforest.

The Interdependence of plants, animals, and humans is integral in the Amazon Rainforest ecosystem of the tropical rainforest biome. The key features of the Amazon Rainforest is the Amazon River. The Amazon Rainforest goes through Brazil, Peru, Colombia, and many other countries. Colombia has 10%, Brazil has 60%, and Peru has 13%. 80-90 degrees during the day and 50 degrees at night is the temperature of the Amazon Rainforest. There are dry and wet seasons. it gets 9 to 10 feet of rain a year. The terrain is in the Amazon Rainforest are rocky mountains, wetlands , plains, valleys, rivers, streams, and highlands. The dirt is poor with very few nutrients and it is very muddy. It is also dense with trees and rotting logs. The thin topsoils, made of decaying vegetable and animal parts, take up all the nutrients. In the Amazon Rainforest there 's the Congo River, the Rio Negro, and the Amazon River.

What Is Amazon Rainforest, What Are the Human Activities In it and what effects do these activities have on the biome?

The tropical rainforest biome is an ecosystem covering around 6% of the Earth’s surface and being a home to over 50% of the plant and animal species. These environments are hot and humid all year round, with the average amount of rainfall being 250cm per year. The temperatures in a rain forest minimum tends to be around 20OC with the temperature not rising above 34OC regularly. Tropical rainforests are found spanning from both sides of the equator between the tropic of Cancer and the tropic of Capricorn meaning rainforests are in Central and South America, Southeast Asia, Africa and Australia.

Did you know that in 1990 there were only 2,500 Hyacinth Macaws left living in the will. In our paper we will discuss how humans affect the rainforest, endangered hyacinth macaws, and how we can prevent humans from destroying rainforests.

Three to six billion trees are cut down each and every year! Deforestation is a huge problem in the rainforests. Because these forests are home to much of the Earth’s species of life. Covering 30 percent of our land forests provide homes, protection, and oxygen for humans and other wildlife in the forests. There are 7.125 billion people that count on the benefits provided by the forest, which is: food, clothing, traditional medicine and shelter. If something isn 't done soon to reduce our carbon footprint, we will not have forests of any type to soak up the carbon dioxide(CO2) in the atmosphere.

The biodiversity of the tropical rainforest is so immense that less than 1 percent of its millions of species have been studied by scientists for their active constituents and their possible uses. When an acre of tropical rainforest is lost, the impact on the number of plant and animal species lost and their possible uses is staggering. Scientists estimate that we are losing more than 137 species of plants and animals every single day because of rainforest deforestation.

The Denver Academy has recently researched and defined some of the important facts surrounding the Amazon rainforest. In 2017, the Amazon rainforest covers 2.1 million square miles of South America. It is a vast ecosystem home to 10% of the world’s known species (The Denver Academy). They go on to say that the trees are so dense, when it rains, it takes 10 minutes for the water to break through the forest roof. The destruction of this habitat could lead to extinction of these species, and have devastating impacts all over the world from the loss of the lungs of the earth. While it is mainly concentrated in Brazil there are also large portions of the rainforest in Peru and Colombia, so many populations and economies are directly affected

The lumber, agriculture, and mining industries are major impacts on the tropical rainforest. They all require large areas of forest to be cleared so that they can take place. In mining, large areas of forest are cleared, and roads are built to access the mines. This greatly affects the diversity in the area because of the loud construction noises as well as pollution. The lumber and agriculture industries also have a very adverse affect on tropical rainforests. This is chiefly due to the fact that the soil fertility is only good enough to grow crops for a few years after it has been cleared. This leads to farmers clearing more and more forest each year to satisfy the needs of

The tropical rainforest is located near the equator and 50% are founded in Latin America. Brazil contains one third of the world’s tropical rainforest and the rest are located in either Southeast Asia , the Pacific Islands or West Africa. The tropical rainforest is consumed by tall trees, who get an average of 50 to 260 inches (125 to 660 cm.) of rain falls yearly. The rainforest belongs to a wet climate group in which the temperature does not normally gets higher than 93 °F (34 °C) or drops below 68 °F (20 °C). The Rainforest covers less than 6% of the Earth but scientists suggest that more than half of the world’s animal and plant population habit in the rainforest. The trees prodace 40% of the world’s oxygen and 70% of the rainforests plant

Ever since 1900 which the start of the industrial revolution, the forests have been reduced by one-half and to make the destruction worse of rainforest rapidly is due to World War II where the forests had reduced to 59 percent. Today, approximately 10 million sq km remains, and tropical rainforest still covers somewhat more than 6 percent of the earth’s land, in four major areas of the Americas, Africa, Indo-Malayan, and Australian- Pacific. There are about 50% of the worlds tropical rainforest cover are in American block or Neotropics. Indeed, there are five countries with the largest rainforest cover which are Colombia, Indonesia, Peru, Democratic Republic of Congo and Brazil. However, the majority of the forest covered within Brazil which

Rainforests have been declining rapidly over the last few decades. There are various factors responsible for this decline, resulting in serious impacts on the environment and the economy. Critically discuss the causes of deforestation and solutions to it.

　　Rainforest ecosystem, just like other ecosystems, has a trophic structure. Species in an ecosystem can be divided into different trophic levels depending on their main source of food. The first level consists of

The rate of deforestation is increasing and the tropical forests are falling at approximately 140,000 acres per day (Miller & Tangley 1991: xvi). The forests are crucial to the environment. They are important in minimizing erosion, providing a stable habitat for many animals, and helping to keep the environment clean. Deforestation has devastating effects, not only on the biological dependents within the depleted forests, but also on the surrounding human-populated communities.

Borneo Hub is an open science platform for transboundary information sharing across the Southeast Asian island of Borneo, which is divided between the nations of Malaysia, Indonesia, and Brunei Darussalam. Developing innovative means of promoting sound conservation practices in this region – described as “the last remaining place where the Indo-Malaysian forests of Southeast Asia can be conserved on a scale large enough to be permanently viable” - is a major concern (Hardiono, Alfred and WWF-Malaysia, 2005). The