Biodiversity

Tropical Rainforest

The tropical rain forest is the most diverse biome on earth where it is full of plants and animals. There is a wide spread of fauna within the tropical rainforest with some being deadly. For example the poison Dart frog is a frog that has poison on its back, and when touched it kills you instantly. As for plants there is a wide variety, from orchids to bamboo to very tall trees. The tropical rain forest is a forest which is a home to several tall trees and various species in a region of year round warmth. On an average of the tropical rain forest sees roughly around 50 to 260 inches of rain fall every year. Rain forests belong to the tropical wet climate group. The temperature in a rain forest marks that of being the highest 34 °C or lowest being 20 °C. Approximately humidity is between 77 and 88%. Rainfall is often more than 100 inches a year, though sometimes there is a brief season of less rain. Rainforests now cover less than 6% of Earth's land surface and almost all rain forests lie near the equator.

(http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/rainforest.htm)

Taiga

Taiga a Russian word for forest is the largest biome in the world. It stretches over Eurasia and North America. The Taiga is located near the top of the world. The winters in the taiga are very cold with temperatures that range from -54 to -1° C. The winters are very cold and with a lot of snow. Temperatures in summer gets as low as -7° C. The summers are mostly warm, humid and rainy. There is not much of flora and fauna in this biome since the harsh conditions of winter makes it impossible to survive. Not many plants can survive the extreme cold of the taiga winter. Some plants which are likely to survive are lichen and mosses. As for most of the animals found in the taiga they hibernate in the winter, some fly south and others cooperate with the environment.

(http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/taiga.htm)