Types of Rainforest
Tropical rainforests are found in South and Central America,
West and Central Africa, Indonesia, parts of Southeast Asia, and tropical
Australia. The climate is very hot and humid year round.
Equatorial
rainforests are different in that the vegetation is
replaced by montane forests, as in the highlands of New Guinea, the Gotel
Mountains of Cameroon, and in the Ruwenzori mass of Central Africa. Tropical
rainforests with trees that fall apart are located mostly in eastern Brazil,
southeastern Africa, northern Australia, and parts of Southeast Asia.
Monsoon forests
have a dry season and vegetation including falling trees such as teak,
thickets of bamboo, and heavy undergrowth.
Mangrove forests
are near water passages, mud and sand.
Temperate rainforests
filled with evergreen and laurel trees are lower and less crowded with
vegetation than other kinds of rainforests because the climate is
more stable and rainfall occurs frequently throughout the year.