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The Forest Floor
1. Mammals of the Forest Floor - 1
The Understory, MAMMALS of the FOREST FLOOR PREDATORS Due to the scarcity of large
2. Forest Floor - the Understory
Chapter 5: THE FOREST FLOOR The forest floor of primary tropical rainforest is rarely
3. Mammals of the Forest Floor
MAMMALS of the FOREST FLOOR As a result of the lack of abundant ground growth, the
4. Rainforest Canopy - Introduction
Primary tropical rainforest is vertically divided into at least five layers: the
5. Structure and Character - Pg 2
The upper canopy is 100-130 feet above the forest floor, penetrated by scattered
6. Birds of the Forest Floor
The Understory, GROUND BIRDS The majority of ground-dwelling forest birds are
7. Birds of the Forest Floor
The Understory. GROUND BIRDS The majority of ground-dwelling forest birds are
8. Light Gaps, Seedlings, Shrubs
...of dormancy thanks to several adaptations that enable them to cope with the poor
9. Rainforest Canopy - Vines and Lianas
The plants, especially those of the Araceae family, start as a shrub on the forest
10. Types of Forest
...dry season, many trees shed some or even all their leaves, creating a seasonal reduction
11. Rainforest Canopy - Amphibians, Reptiles, Invertebrates
...are mostly limited to habitats near water, tropical frogs are most abundant in the
12. Human Threats to Rainforests - Fires
...penetrates virgin forest is does little more than consume the dry leaf litter and
13. Human Threats to Rainforests - Fuelwood, Roads, Climate
Tree falls tear gaps in the canopy, destroying its function of moderating the
14. Ground Reptiles and Amphibians
The Understory. OTHER GROUND ANIMALS REPTILES The most abundant vertebrate predators
15. Tropical Rainforests - Information on Ecology, Conservation, and ...
...in of lianas across four tropical regions Easily observed differences between
16. Ground Reptiles and Amphibians
The Understory, OTHER GROUND ANIMALS REPTILES The most abundant vertebrate predators
17. Ground Invertebrates
If one sits in the rainforest of Borneo for a few minutes, leeches, moving like
18. Rainforest Diversity - Canopy structure, soils, effect of area on ...
Gaps in the canopy allowed more sunlight to reach the forest floor, further altering
19. Natural Threats to Rainforests
...are usually spared. The fire has the effect of clearing the forest floor and
20. Rainforest Diversity - Short-term Variation, Ice Ages, Ecotones
Generally when forest is logged, the dense canopy structure is disturbed
21. Rainforest Canopy - Epiphytes
...for poison arrow frog tadpoles. The female frog lays its eggs on a leaf
22. Tropical Rainforest Information, Pictures and Ecology
Biodiversity - Species Richness The Canopy - Life in the Trees The Understory -
23. Rainforest News Articles for the Period from August 4-27, 2003
Rainforest Articles for the Period from August 4-27, 2003. - Cameroon tackles
24. Soils and Nutrient Cycling
Many tropical species have roots that grow out of the ground to form a mat on the
25. Strangler Fig
Strangler Fig, Brazil 1999. a tiny seed in the canopy. The roots grow down to the
26. Rainforest Canopy - Animal Locomotion
Flying Dragons live in trees all of their life, except when they go down to
27. Selected Rainforst Articles February 2004
Selective logging punctures the forest canopy and allows sunlight to penetrate to
28. Latvia - Geographic Features
...free understory. The forest floor, however, is far from a biological desert,
29. Tropical Rainforests - mongabay.com
Rainforest? Biodiversity - Species Richness The Canopy - Life in the Trees
30. Animal Information and Pictures [Beta]
Rainforest Information A Place Out Of Time Preface World Rainforests Tropical
31. Botswana 1994 Photos - Elephants (Savuti, Moremi parks)
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34. Forest Fires News
...broadcast burns. Broadcast burns are slow-moving forest fires that burn ground
35. Ecosystems News
...aren't so good for earth 25 Apr 2004 ...which earthworms are famous actually degrades
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29, 2004 Rainforests, by their very definition get rain—lots of it, 80 inches or
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89. The Forest Floor
The Forest Floor. Sponsored Links: Forest Floor - the Understory Chapter
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91. Forest Succession
...[www.mongabay.com/0504.htm] Forest Floor - the Understory Chapter 5: THE FOREST
92. The Understory
Forest Floor - the Understory Chapter 5: THE FOREST FLOOR The forest floor of primary
93. Omnivores
Omnivores. Sponsored Links: Mammals of the Forest Floor - 1 Asia. OMNIVORES
94. Herbivores
Mammals of the Forest Floor MAMMALS of the FOREST FLOOR As a result of the lack
95. Reptiles & Amphibians
Ground Reptiles and Amphibians The Understory OTHER GROUND ANIMALS REPTILES The
96. Invertebrates
Fins. ... [fish.mongabay.com/anatomy.htm] Forest Floor - the Understory Chapter
97. Forest Waters
...[www.mongabay.com/0602.htm] Forest Floor - the Understory Chapter 5: THE FOREST
98. Army Ants
...[www.mongabay.com/0509.htm] Birds of the Forest Floor In the New World one large
99. Savannas
...hotbeds where evolutionary competition ... [www.mongabay.com/0304.htm] Mammals
100. Equatorial Forest
Types of Forest The increased sunlight reaching the forest floor allows the growth
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