Jungle And The Rain Forest

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an abundance of vines and epiphytes (plants growing on the
trees), a relatively open forest floor, and a very large number of species
of both plant and animal life. The largest trees have buttressed trunks and
emerge above the continuous canopy, while smaller trees commonly form a
layer of more shade-tolerant species beneath the upper canopy. The maximum
height of the upper canopy of tropical rain forests is generally about 30
to 50 m (100 to 165 ft), with some individual trees rising as high as 60 m
(200 ft) above the forest floor.

The largest areas of tropical rain forest are in the Amazon basin of South
America, in the Congo basin and other lowland equatorial regions of Africa,
and on both the mainland and the islands off Southeast Asia, where they are
especially abundant on Sumatra and New Guinea. Small areas are found in
Central America and along the Queensland coast of Australia.

Temperate rain forests, growing in higher-latitude regions having wet,
maritime climates, are ...

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