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Biomes: Forests
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Tropical Forest – The forest biomes cover one third of the Earth’s surface. There are three different types of forest. Tropical forests are the oldest of the forests and contain the greatest variety of species. Monkeys, gorillas, tigers, elephants, birds, reptiles and an unknown number of insects and spiders make their home in the tropical forests. Tropical forests are found in South America’s Amazon Basin, the African Congo, South east Asia, India, Australia and Brazil.
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The first phase of BIOME’s alliance with the GFIS Task Force is now in the final stages of negotiation. It is planned that the co-ordinators of the Virtual Library for Forestry http://www.metla.fi/info/vlib/foresty/ based at Metla, the Finnish Forestry Research Institute, who are members of the Task Force, will directly input resources into the AgriFor gateway within BIOME. If this proves to be a successful model, it is hoped that AgriFor will then formally become a ‘GFIS Affiliated node’ within the Global Forest Information Service.
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Present-day forest biomes, biological communities that are dominated by trees and other woody vegetation (Spurr and Barnes 1980), can be classified according to numerous characteristics, with seasonality being the most widely used. Distinct forest types ... occur within each of these broad groups.
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