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Running Head: Environmental Science Pg.1
Environmental Science
Individual Project Unit One
Instructor: Laura Stepp
By: Demond J. Lemieux
February 17, 2013
Environmental Science Pg.2
Abstract
This assignment will be explaining biotic and aiotic of the Tropical rainforest. An explanation
of the ecosystem of this area will be discuss. The structure and function of the ecosystem for this area
will be explain as well. Also the disburbance and recovery of the region is talked about within this
assignment. An explanation on how the ecosystem recover natural based on resilience mechanism
and the theory of secondary sucession.
Environmental Science Pg.3
In a Tropical rainforest, it can seem very humid, warm, and full of plants and animals.
It is known that there is a greater diversity of living things than anywhere else on earth, that they
are the result of millions of years of adaptive evolution. Here there is million of years of adaptive
evolution, and is house of carbon more than the whole atmosphere. Many scientist discover this
information and wanted to get answer of how such natural system works.
Ecosystem is the natural units of life, it is self sustaining system. Biotic communities consist of plant
and animal life. In the plant portion all vegetation from large trees to microscopic algae. As for animal
life, it includes large mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians through earthworms, tiny insects, and
mites. The microscopic consists...