The document discusses the goods and services provided by tropical rainforests, including oxygen production, biodiversity, and origins of foods and medicines. It notes that rainforests once covered 14% of land but now only 6%, and are being destroyed at a rate of 1.5 acres per second. This is causing massive species loss estimated at 50,000 species per year. Tropical rainforests support important ecosystem services and are biodiversity hotspots, home to over half the world's species in a very small area of the planet.

1. The Tropical Rainforest Biome: Goods and Services

5. Commercial Destruction

6. Absolute Poverty Deforestation

8. Location Location of TRF Biodiversity Hotspots

9. 10km 10km SPECIES: Amphibian Flowering plants Tree Birds Butterfly Reptile Ant 60 1,500 750 400 150 100 100

13. TRF Ecosystem Services Supporting Provisioning Regulating Cultural

15. Food Web- Simple?

16. Nutrient Cycling

17. Water Cycling

18. Discuss: What human actions could disrupt this flow of energy?