The rainforest has a very short nutrient cycle. Nutrients generally stay in an ecosystem by being recycled and in a rainforest are mainly found in the living plants and the layers of decomposing leaf litter.
www.blueplanetbiomes.org/rainforest.htm www.blueplanetbiomes.org/rainforest.htm
Every rainforest does not necessarily conform to these characteristics and most tropical rainforests do not have clear boundaries, ... Each species that disappears from the ecosystem may weaken the survival chances of another, while the loss of a keystone species—an organism that links many other species together,
rainforests.mongabay.com/amazon/rainforest_ecology.html rainforests.mongabay.com/amazon/rainforest_ecology.html
ECOsystem; A gallery of images and information on the trees, plants, birds, animals and insects of the rainforest. A place to find out about the organisms and issues we’ll encounter on this virtual expedition.
passporttoknowledge.com/rainforest/main.html passporttoknowledge.com/rainforest/main.html
; Rainforest vegetation on the Caribbean island of Dominica; Click on image for full size (49K JPG); NBII Digital Image Library - Randolph Femmer, photographer ... Rainforest Insects ... Rainforest Reptiles...
www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/rainforest.html www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/rainforest.html
Australian rainforest ecosystem, rainforests, jungle, trees, rainfall, high-rainfall, environmental video Television programs, wildlife, natural history and environmental films, videos, stock-footage,stock shots ... A FEMALE FIG-BIRD FEASTS ON RAINFOREST FIGS ... MORE GREAT ECOSYSTEM INFO:
www.gullivermedia.com.au/rainf.html
Rainforest Action ... One and one-half acres of rainforest are lost every second with tragic consequences for both developing and industrial countries. ... Rainforests are being destroyed because the value of rainforest land is perceived as only the value of its timber by short-sighted governments, multi-national logging...
www.rain-tree.com/facts.htm
Rainforest; Ecosystem; A WebQuest for Third Grade; Designed by J.Dodson Drever; ... You and your fellow seedlings have been selected to work individually and in a small group, using the Internet, to investigate one of the four layers of the rainforest ecosystem. Use the Resource list of web site links to gather...
webinstituteforteachers.org/~jldodson/rainforestecosyst... webinstituteforteachers.org/~jldodson/rainforestecosystem
Six Virtual Biomes Ecosystems, Biomes, and Watersheds: A Definition World Biomes The Great Basin Ecosystem The High Plains: Land of Extremes Virtual Rainforest Night Creatures of The Kalahari EcoQuest: Desert Edition Shades of Green: Earth's Forests Edens The African Great Lakes Region Animal Habitats...
www.fi.edu/tfi/units/life/habitat/habitat.html
; Drought, fire called biggest threats to Amazon rainforest ecosystem; Rhett Butler, mongabay.com; April 23, 2005; ... Fire and drought, once rare in much of the Amazon, may now pose the biggest threat to the survival of the Amazon ecosystem.
news.mongabay.com/2005/0423-rhett_butler.html