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热带雨林介绍（英文）

A tropical rainforest is an ecosystem type that occurs roughly within the latitudes 28 degrees north or south of the equator (in the equatorial zone between the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn). This ecosystem experiences high average temperatures and a significant amount of rainfall. Rainforests can be found in Asia, Australia, Africa, South America, Central America, Mexico and on many of the Pacific, Caribbean, and Indian Ocean islands. Within the World Wildlife Fund's biome classification, tropical rainforests are thought to be a type of tropical wet forest (or tropical moist broadleaf forest) and may also be referred to as lowland equatorial evergreen rainforest.

History Tropical rainforests:

Tropical rainforests have existed on Earth for hundreds of millions of years. Most tropical rainforests today are on fragments of the Mesozoic era supercontinent of Gondwana. The separation of the landmass resulted in a great loss of amphibian diversity while at the same time the drier climate spurred the diversification of reptiles. The division left tropical rainforests located in five major regions of the world: tropical America, Africa, Southeast Asia, Madagascar, and New Guinea, with smaller outliers in Australia. However, the specifics of the origin of rainforests remain uncertain due to an incomplete fossil record.

Types of tropical rainforest

Several types of forest comprise the general tropical rainforest biome:

Lowland equatorial evergreen rain forests are forests which receive high rainfall (more than 2000 mm, or 80 inches, annually) throughout the year. These forests occur in a belt around the equator, with the largest areas in the Amazon Basin of South America, the Congo Basin of Central Africa, Indonesia, and New Guinea.

Moist deciduous and semi-evergreen seasonal forests, receive high overall rainfall with a warm summer wet season and a cooler winter dry season. Some trees in these forests drop some or all of their leaves during the winter dry season. These forests are found in parts of South America, in Central America and around the Caribbean, in coastal West Africa, parts of the Indian subcontinent, and across much of Indochina.

Montane rain forests, some of which are known as cloud forests, are found in cooler-climate mountain areas. Depending on latitude, the lower limit of montane rainforests on large mountains is generally between 1500 and 2500 m while the upper limit is usually from 2400 to 3300 m.

Flooded forests, seven types of flooded forest are recognized for Tambopata Reserve in Amazonian Peru:

Permanently waterlogged swamp forest--Former oxbow lakes still flooded but covered in forest.

Seasonally waterlogged swamp forest--Oxbow lakes in the process of filling in.

Lower floodplain forest--Lowest floodplain locations with a recognizable forest.

Middle floodplain forest--Tall forest, flooded occasionally.

Upper floodplain forest--Tall forest, rarely flooded.

Old floodplain forest--Subjected to flooding within the last two hundred years.

Previous floodplain--Now terra firme, but historically ancient floodplain of Tambopata River.

Due the human's excessive exploitation, tropical forests are now facing a great danger of disappear from the surface of the Earth. Urgent steps and actions required from all countries of the tropical area to protect them from further damages.

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一篇英语文章关于热带雨林

热带雨林为热带雨林气候及热带海洋性气候的典型植被。

大多数热带雨林（Tropical zone rain forest）都位于北纬23.5度和南纬23.5度之间。在热带雨林中，通常有三到五层的植被，上面还有高达150英尺到180英尺的树木像帐篷一样支盖着。下面几层植被的密度取决于阳光穿透上层树木的程度。照进来的阳光越多，密度就越大。热带雨林主要分布在南美、亚洲和非洲的丛林地区，如亚马逊平原和云南的西双版纳。每月平均温度在华氏64.5度以上（摄氏温度约为18度），平均降水量每年80英寸（1英寸=2.54厘米）以上，超过每年的蒸发量。

19世纪，德国植物学家辛伯尔广泛收集和总结了热带地区的科学发现和各种资料，把潮湿热带地区常绿高大的森林植被称作为热带雨林，并从当时的生态学角度对它进行了科学描述和解释。热带雨林具有独特的外貌和结构特征，与世界上其它森林类型有清楚的区别。热带雨林主要生长在年平均温度24℃以上，或者最冷月平均温度18℃以上的热带潮湿低地。

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世界上三大热带地区都有它的分布。最大的一片在美洲，南美洲亚马逊河流域目前还保存着40，000平方公里面积，约占热带雨林总量的一半，即约占世界阔叶林总量的1/6。第二大片是热带亚洲的雨林，面积有20，000平方公里。第三大片是热带非洲刚果盆地雨林，面积18，000平方公里。它们都是在赤道附近的雨林气候下形成的。中美洲东岸及西印度群岛、澳大利亚东北部、马达加斯加岛东岸、巴西东南部的雨林则发育于热带海洋性气候。

我国云南、台湾、海南地区也有分布。

热带美洲、热带亚洲和热带非洲的雨林虽然分开为三大片，但它们都有非常类似的外貌和结构特点。由于生长环境终年高温潮湿，热带雨林长得高大茂密，一般高度在30米以上，从林冠到林下树木分为多个层次，彼此套迭。在热带雨林中，最高的树木可长到80多米高度，例如马来西亚的塔豆（Koompassia excelta），西双版纳的望天树亦高达70米。热带雨林的种类组成极端丰富，尽管热带雨林仅占世界陆地面积的百分之七，但它所包含的植物总数却占了世界总数的一半。热带雨林有很多独特现象是其它森林所没有的。例如，大树具有板状的树根，在老茎杆上开花、结果；有很多小型植物附生在其它植物的枝、杆上；有的通过绞杀其它植物而树立起自己；有的树木从空中垂下许多柱状的根，最后变成独树成林；林下植物的叶子一般都有滴水叶尖，而有的植物的叶子长得十分巨大；在林内，大藤本非常丰富，有的长达数百米，穿梭悬挂于树木之间,使人难于通行。

随着科学家对热带雨林的深入调查和研究，越来越多的生态现象被发现和解释。但越来越多的发现也证明，热带雨林中蕴藏着大量的尚未被充分认识的生物学和自然规律。特别是热带雨林物种的极端丰富性和植物生活类型的多样性并不能完全用达尔文的进化论来解释。世界上除热带雨林外的物种充其量仅占总物种的一半。植物生活类型亦仅只是一部分。例如，温带的森林，不仅种类贫乏，生活类型单调，各种生态关系和生态表现亦是相对简单和直接。依赖于热带以外森林的研究而得出的一些经典或传统的生物学规律和概念显然是非常不完善的，若直接套用来解释热带雨林，自然有很多现象不可思议。因此，科学家预测，通过对热带雨林的深入研究，或许会完全改变原有的生物学观念。然而，令人遗憾的是人们还没有充分解开热带雨林之谜时，它就可能由于人类自己的破坏而永久地消失。