Environmental Science

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Environmental Science

Individual Project Unit One

Instructor: Laura Stepp

By: Demond J. Lemieux

February 17, 2013

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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.

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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...