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Ширэнгэн ой. Австрали
Ширэнгэн ой. Австрали

Ширэнгэн ой гэдэг нь жилийн хур тундсын (борооны) хэмжээ 1750-2000 мм-ээс илүү байх бүс нутаг дахь ой юм.

Ширэнгэн ойд Дэлхийн нийт амьтан, ургамлын зүйлийн гуравны хоёр нь байх ба эрдэмтэд хэдэн сая зүйлийн ургамал, шавьж, микроорганизм нээгдээгүй байгаа гэж үзэж байна. Хэдий хэрэглэдэг хэмжээнээсээ илүү хэмжээний хүчилтөрөгч ялгаруулдаг нь тогтоогдоогүй байгаа ч гэсэн, ширэнгэн ойг "Дэлхийн уушиг" гэж нэрлэдэг байна[1].[2]. Мөн ширэнгэн ойг "Дэлхийн хамгийн том эмийн сан" гэж хэлэх нь бий. Учир нь эндээс ихээхэн хэмжээний эмийн ургамлууд нээгдээд байна.

Тропикийн General distribution of tropical rainforest
Тропикийн General distribution of tropical rainforest
General distribution of temperate rainforest
General distribution of temperate rainforest

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[Өөрчлөх] Distribution

[Өөрчлөх] Tropical rainforest

Template:See main The largest tropical rainforests exist in the Amazon Basin (the Amazon Rainforest), in Nicaragua (Los Guatuzos, Bosawás and Indio-Maiz), the southern Yucatán Peninsula-El Peten-Belize contiguous area of Central America (including the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve), in much of equatorial Africa from Cameroon to the Democratic Republic of Congo, in much of southeastern Asia from Myanmar to Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, northern and eastern Australia and in the Hawaiian Islands.

[Өөрчлөх] Temperate rainforest

Outside of the tropics, temperate rainforests can be found in North America including the northwestern coast of the United States and the Pacific coast of Canada. In Europe they are found in coastal portions of Ireland, Scotland and southern Norway, parts of the western Balkans along the Adriatic coast, coastal areas of the eastern Black Sea including Georgia and coastal Turkey. In Asia portions of southern China, Taiwan, much of Japan, Korea, Sakhalin Island and the adjacent coast of Russia. In the southern hemisphere temperate rainforests are found in southern Chile and adjacent areas of Argentina in South America, in South Africa, New Zealand southeastern Australia.

[Өөрчлөх] Soils

Despite the growth of vegetation in a rainforest, the actual quality of the soil is often quite poor. Rapid bacterial decay prevents the accumulation of humus. The concentration of iron and aluminium oxides by the laterization process gives the oxisols a bright red color and sometimes produces minable deposits (e.g. bauxite). On younger substrates, especially of volcanic origin, tropical soils may be quite fertile.

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The Daintree Rainforest near Cairns, in Queensland, Australia.

[Өөрчлөх] Effect on global climate

In contradiction to popular belief, rainforests are not major consumers of carbon dioxide and like all mature forests are approximately carbon neutral[3][4]. Recent evidence suggests that rainforests are in fact net carbon emitters of between 18 billion tonnes [5] and 100 million tonnes [6] of carbon annually. However, rainforests do play a major role in the global carbon cycle as stable carbon pools. Clearance of rainforest leads to increased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Rainforests may also play a role in cooling air that passes through them. As such, rainforests are of vital importance within the global climate system.

[Өөрчлөх] Rainforest layers

The rainforest is divided into five different parts, each with different plants and animals, adapted for life in that particular area.

[Өөрчлөх] Emergent layer

This layer contains a small number of very large trees which grow above the general canopy, reaching heights of 45-55 m, although on occasion a few species will grow to 60 m or 70 m tall. They need to be able to withstand the hot temperatures and dry winds. Eagles, butterflies, bats and certain monkeys inhabit this layer.

[Өөрчлөх] Canopy layer

Template:Further The canopy layer contains the majority of the largest trees, typically 30-45 m tall. The densest areas of biodiversity are found in the forest canopy, a more or less continuous cover of foliage formed by adjacent treetops.

The canopy, by some estimates, is home to 40% of all plant species, suggesting that perhaps half of all life on Earth could be found there. The fauna is similar to that found in the emergent layer, but more diverse. A quarter of all insect species are believed to exist in the rainforest canopy.

Scientists have long suspected the richness of the canopy as a habitat, but have only recently developed practical methods of exploring it. As long ago as 1917, U.S. naturalist William Beebe declared that "another continent of life remains to be discovered, not upon the Earth, but one to two hundred feet above it, extending over thousands of square miles".

True exploration of this habitat only began in the 1980s, when scientists developed methods to reach the canopy, such as firing ropes into the trees using crossbows. Exploration of the canopy is still in its infancy, but other methods include the use of balloons and airships to float above the highest branches and the building of cranes and walkways planted on the forest floor. The science of accessing tropical forest canopy is called dendronautics.[7]

[Өөрчлөх] Understorey layer

There is a space between the canopy and the forest floor, which is known as the understorey . This is home to a number of birds, snakes, and lizards, as well as predators such as jaguars, boa constrictors, and leopards. The leaves are much larger at this level. Insect life is also abundant. Many seedlings that will grow to the canopy level are present in the understorey. Only about 5% of the sunlight shining on the rainforest reaches the understorey. This layer can also be called a shrub layer.

[Өөрчлөх] Shrub Layer

The layer just above the floor, consists of mainly large-leaved plants and small trees able to survive on the meager amount of light let through by the canopy.

[Өөрчлөх] Forest floor

This region receives only 2% of the rainforest's sunlight, thus only specially adapted plants can grow in this region. Away from river banks, swamps and clearings where dense undergrowth is found, the forest floor is relatively clear of vegetation, as little sunlight penetrates to ground level. It also contains decaying plant and animal matter, which disappears quickly due to the warm, humid conditions promoting rapid decay. Many forms of fungi grow here which help decay the animal and plant waste.

[Өөрчлөх] Fauna

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Millipede on the forest floor of Rio Muni, Equatorial Guinea

Rainforests support a very broad array of fauna including mammals, reptiles, birds and invertebrates. Mammals may include primates, felids and other families. Reptiles include snakes, turtles, chameleons and other families. Birds include such families as vangidae and Cuculidae. Dozens of families of invertebrates are found in rainforests. More than half of the world's species of plants and animals are found in the rainforestTemplate:Fact. This amounts to over 5 million species of plants and animals.

[Өөрчлөх] Human uses

Template:Main Many foods originally came from tropical forests, and are still mostly grown on plantations in regions that were formerly primary forest.[8] Tropical rainforests are also the source of many medicinal drugs, with over half the medications originating from the rainforest. Tropical rainforests also provide timber as well as animal products such as meat and hides. Rainforests also have value as tourism destinations and for the ecosystem services provided.

[Өөрчлөх] Deforestation

Template:Main Tropical and temperate rain forests have been subjected to heavy logging and agricultural clearance throughout the 20th century, and the area covered by rainforests around the world is rapidly shrinking. Biologists have estimated that large numbers of species are being driven to extinction (possibly more than 50,000 a year) due to the removal of habitat with destruction of the rainforests Template:Waybackdate. Protection and regeneration of the rainforests is a key goal of many environmental charities and organizations. (It is doubtful that this rate will be sustained as the relative cost of logging rises with dwindling resources.)

Another factor causing the loss of rainforest is expanding urban areas. Littoral Rainforest growing along coastal areas of eastern Australia is now rare due to ribbon development to accommodate the demand for seachange lifestyles.

About half of the mature tropical rainforests, between 750 to 800 million hectares of the original 1.5 to 1.6 billion hectares that once graced the planet have already been felled. The devastation is already acute in South East Asia, the second of the world's great biodiversity hot spots. Most of what remains is in the Amazon basin, where the Amazon rainforest covered more than 600 million hectares, an area nearly two thirds the size of the United States. The forests are being destroyed at an ever-quickening pace. Unless significant measures are taken on a world-wide basis to preserve them, by 2030 there will only be 10% remaining with another 10% in a degraded condition. 80% will have been lost and with them the natural diversity they contain will pass away forever.

Many tropical countries, including Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Bangladesh, China, Sri Lanka, Laos, Nigeria, Liberia, Guinea, Ghana and the Cote d'lvoire have already lost large areas of their rainforest. Eighty per cent of the forests of the Philippine archipelago have already been cut down. "In 1960 Central America still had four fifths of its original forest; now it is left with only two fifths of it. Half of the Brazilian state of Rondonia's 24.3 million hectares have been destroyed or severely degraded in recent years. Several countries, notably the Philippines, Thailand and India have declared their deforestation a national emergency.[1][2]

[Өөрчлөх] See also

  • Tropical rainforest
  • Temperate rain forest
  • Cloud forest
  • Jungle
  • Endangered species
  • Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests
  • Deforestation
  • Illegal logging
  • Rubber tapping
  • Coalition for Rainforest Nations
  • Holocene extinction event

[Өөрчлөх] Ишлэл

  1. Broeker, W.S., 2006 "Breathing easy, Et tu, O2" Columbia University http://www.columbia.edu/cu/21stC/issue-2.1/broecker.htm.
  2. Moran, E.F., "Deforestation and Land Use in the Brazilian Amazon", Human Ecology, Vol 21, No. 1, 1993 “It took more than 15 years for the "lungs of the world" myth to be corrected. Rain forests contribute little net oxygen additions to the atmosphere through photosynthesis.”
  3. Broeker, W.S. (2006) Breathing easy, Et tu, O2. Columbia University http://www.columbia.edu/cu/21stC/issue-2.1/broecker.htm
  4. Pregitzer, K. and Uskirchen, S. (2004) Carbon cycling and storage in world forests: biome patterns related to forest age. Global Change Biology 10: 1–26
  5. Chu, Henry. Rain Forest Myth Goes Up in Smoke over the Amazon, Los Angeles Times, June 8, 2005.
  6. Britton B. Stephens, Kevin R. Gurney, Pieter P. Tans, Colm Sweeney, Wouter Peters, Lori Bruhwiler, Philippe Ciais, Michel Ramonet, Philippe Bousquet, Takakiyo Nakazawa, Shuji Aoki, Toshinobu Machida, Gen Inoue, Nikolay Vinnichenko, Jon Lloyd, Armin Jordan, Martin Heimann, Olga Shibistova, Ray L. Langenfelds, L. Paul Steele, Roger J. Francey, and A. Scott Denning (2007). "Weak northern and strong tropical land carbon uptake from vertical profiles of atmospheric CO2." Science, June 22, 2007
  7. http://www.dendronautics.org/
  8. Myers, N. (1985). The primary source. W. W. Norton and Co., New York, pp. 189-193.
  • Richards, P. W. (1996). The tropical rain forest. 2nd ed. Cambridge University Press ISBN 0-521-42194-2
  • Whitmore, T. C. (1998) An introduction to tropical rain forests. 2nd ed. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-850147-1
  • Butler, R. A. (2005) A Place Out of Time: Tropical Rainforests and the Perils They Face. Published online: rainforests.mongabay.com


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