Tropical Rain Forest

 

Tropical rain forest, or often written as a tropical rain forest is a forest biome that is always wet or damp, which can be found in the region around the equator; ie approximately at latitude 0 ° -10 ° to the north and south of the equator. These forests are found in Asia, Australia, Africa, South America, Central America, Mexico and the Pacific Islands. In terms of English, forest formations are known as Lowland equatorial evergreen rainforest, tropical rainforest Lowland evergreen or briefly called a tropical rainforest.

 

 Tropical rain forests are home to half the species of flora and fauna in the world. Tropical rainforests are also dubbed as the "world's largest pharmacy" because nearly one quarter of modern medicines come from plants in the rainforest.

Mangrove Forests

 

Mangrove forests also called mangrove forest is a forest that grows in the aqueous brackish marshes located on the shoreline and is influenced by tidal water. This forest is growing especially in places where there is siltation and accumulation of organic matter. Both in bays protected from the onslaught of the waves, and around the mouth of the river where the water slows down and precipitate sludge brought from upstream.

Mangrove ecosystem is unique, both because of siltation resulting in lack of soil aeration; high soil salinity, as well as experiencing cycles of tidal inundation by sea water. Only a few species of plants that survive in such a place, and other types are mostly typical of mangrove forests having gone through the process of adaptation and evolution