Tropical Rainforests

Rhett Butler's material about rain forests in his website Mongabay.com is fantastic, so it is a great place to start to learn more about this ecosystem. Before class on Tuesday please go to the Mongabay website (http://rainforests.mongabay.com/) and read the following sections.

World Rainforests
Rainforest Structure
Rainforest Biodiversity
Canopy
Forest Floor
Rainforest Waters

Poswerpoint Presentations

Here are links to a couple of powerpoint presentations that I made as part of the Malaysian Bat Education Adventure. I hope they provide a nice introduction to the topic.

Tropical Rainforests

http://www.slideshare.net/MarkMcGinley/tropical-rainforests-12072600

Deforestation

http://www.slideshare.net/MarkMcGinley/deforestation-12072424


Deforestation References


Tropical Deforestation- NASA

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/Deforestation/deforestation_update.php">

Reflections on the tropical deforestation crisis. William F. Laurence

http://www.ncsu.edu/project/amazonia/Laurance.pdf">

The causes of tropical deforestation

http://www.ru.org/ecology-and-environment/the-causes-of-tropical-deforestation.html">

Tropical Deforestation

http://www.policyalmanac.org/environment/archive/tropical_deforestation.shtml">

TROPICAL DEFORESTATION AND GREENHOUSE-GAS EMISSIONS PHILIP M. FEARNSIDE AND WILLIAM F. LAURANCE

http://www.esajournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1890/03-5225">

Global Warming- Forest Solutions. Union of Concerned Scientists

http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/solutions/forest_solutions/">