Rainforest Floor Animals - Forest Floor/Shrub Layer

Rainforest Floor Animals
By Elizabeth Scully
Trails.com

There are various types of rainforests, including cooler, temperate rainforests and tropical rainforests. Both have very green, very dense vegetation, and rain is common. However, it rains just 100 inches in temperate forests compared with 80-400 inches in tropical ones. They contain more than half of the world's animals, as well as one-fifth of the world's water, and they produce more than one-third of the world's oxygen. Despite this diversity and the medicinal opportunities offered by the plants in these forests, they now cover only 6 percent of the earth, down from 14 percent. Regardless, these forests are rich havens for wildlife, birds and other creatures.

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