The document summarizes information about the Central American rainforest biome. It describes the location of the Central American rainforest as covering Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Panama. It also discusses the climate, layers (emergent, canopy, understory, forest floor), and flora and fauna found in the Central American rainforest biome. Specifically, it contains over 1/2 of the world's plant and animal species despite covering only 6% of the Earth's surface. However, the Central American rainforest has experienced significant deforestation of over 98% of its original forest area due to human impacts like agriculture, timber, and meat consumption

1. Central American
Rainforest
By: Lucila Vivas, Macarena Vergara, Martina D’Orazio,
Martina Renata Giarmaná, Sofía García Mansilla and Sol
Scarpa.

2. What’s a Biome?
The Rainforest are Biomes and the biomes are large geographical
area characterized by certain types of plants and animals. A biome
is defined by complex interactions of plants and animal with the
climate, geology, soil types, water resources, and latitude of an
area.

3. What is a TROPICAL RAINFOREST?
Rainforest are de earth’s oldest living ecosystem. These incredible
places cover only 6% of the earth’s surface but yet contain MORE
THAN ½ of the world’s plants and animals species.
The reason it is called a “Rain” Forest is because of the high
amount of rainfall it gets per year.
It is, also, called a Tropical Rainforest because it is located in the
tropic’s zone.

4. Central American Rainforest

5. Location:
The Central American Rainforest covers:
 Belize
 Costa Rica
 El Salvador
 Guatemala
 Honduras
 Mexico
 Nicaragua
 Panama

6. Climate
The Tropical Rainforest has two seasons: the wet
season and the driest season.
The climate of a the rain forest is very hot and humid
so the animals and the plants that exist there most
learn to adapt to this climate.
Is about 80°F (26°C) and has little daily or seasonal
variation in temperature. In addition, tropical
rainforests have an average of 100 inches (254 cm)
of precipitation annually. This occur in equatorial
regions near 25 degrees north and south latitude.

7. Flora & Fauna
Insects: morphobutterfly, Julia
butterfly, Monarch
There are different types of butterfly, and millions of other
trees, lianas, orchids.
insects.
Vines: mahogany, rosewood,
durian, cassia and palms are Mammals:
some of the trees that habit jaguar, ocelot, opossums, sloth,
there. spider monkey, etc.
Bromeliads are an important Birds:
part of the rainforest quetzal, , curassows, hoatzins,
ecosystem, providing food and hummingbirds, eagles, ovenbir
shelter to a wide variety of
wildlife. ds, antbirds, flycatchers, touca
ns, and many more.
Orchids have a rare feature
among plants, in that they have Reptiles:
developed a method of anaconda, caiman, iguanas, liza
maintaining water by only rd, boas and coral snakes, etc.
opening the stomata (small
holes) in their leaves at night. Amphibians: poison frogs and
This helps to prevent many different types of frogs
evaporation of water within the from different species and
plant during the hottest parts of
the day. animals.
Fish: electric eel, piranha, and

8. Emergent Layer: The tallest trees
are the emergent, towering as much
as 200 feet above the forest floor
with trunks that measure up to 16
feet around. Most of these trees
are broad-leaved, hardwood
evergreens. Sunlight is plentiful up
here. Animals found are eagles,
monkeys, bats and butterflies.
Canopy Layer: This is the primary
layer of the forest and forms a roof
over the two remaining layers. Many
animals live in this area since food is
abundant. Those animals include:
snakes, toucans and tree frogs.
Understory Layer: Little sunshine
reaches this area so the plants have
to grow larger leaves to reach the
sunlight. Many animals live here
including jaguars, red-eyed tree
frogs and leopards. There is a large
concentration of insects here.
Forest Floor: It's very dark down
here. Almost no plants grow in this
area, as a result. Since hardly any
sun reaches the forest floor things
begin to decay quickly. A leaf that
might take one year to decompose
in a regular climate will disappear
in 6 weeks.

9. Plant s images…
Bromeliads
Orchids
Cassia

10. Hummingbird
Animal s Pictures… Sloth
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11. Human Impact
One of the different problems is the demand of meat and tree
products. If we stop consuming meat, in excess, and tree products,
then they stop chopping trees.
This rainforest has experienced deforestation on a catastrophic
scale. The abundant rainforest is about to disappear. It has a 98% of
its original undisturbed old growth forest disappeared. The cutting of
forests for firewood, agriculture and timber sales, exacerbated by
the extreme poverty among the rural population, has been the
driving forces for this forest loss. Many different animals are loosing
their homes because of the tree cutting

12. Images!

13. More…

14. This are the pages we use…
www.lizasreef.com
www.srl.caltech.edu

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