Their solution is to shed the rain as quickly as possible. Each leaf has a spout called a drip tip which acts like a gargoyle on a church, channelling the water away in a quick but controlled manner so the tree crown isn't weighed down. Drip tips may protect the tree in another way. Releasing the rain at drop size reduces the risk of the thin soil below being washed away so easily. An unstable soil structure could spell disaster for the larger trees. Epiphytes An epiphyte is a plant that grows upon another plant (such as a tree) non-parasitically or sometimes upon some other object (such as a building or a telegraph wire), derives its moisture and nutrients from the air and rain and sometimes from debris accumulating around it, and is found in the temperate zone (as many mosses, liverworts, lichens and algae) and in the tropics (as many ferns, cacti, orchids, and bromeliads). Lianas
There can be found many hardwoods, such as mahagony. Understory a dark and a humid area, contains saplings between the trunks of larger trees. 8. How does the vegetation in tropical deciduous forest differ from the vegetation in tropical rainforest? Trf has more kinds of trees than tdc. About 70% of the plants in trf are trees. 9. Using the picture (given in the test) describe how a plant is adapted to the life in tropical rainforest? Epiphytes, liana, climbers or stranglers. 10. What is an epiphyte? It is a so-called air plant, which grows on branches high in the trees.It extracts moisture from the air. 11. What is a liana? It is a woody vine which grows rapidly up the tree trunks. 12. How are animals adapted to life in the biome tropical rainforest/tropical deciduous forest)? Trf arboreal life, bright colours and sharp patterns, loud vocalizations. Tdf adapted to dry season, many animals live on trees
their leaves in the autumn, and grow new ones in spring). Most deciduous trees have thin, broad, light-weight leaves that can capture a lot of sunlight to make a lot of food for the tree in warm weather; when the weather gets cooler, the broad leaves cause too much water loss and can be weighed down by too much snow, so the tree drops its leaves. New ones will grow in the spring.; trees have thick bark to protect against cold winters. Temperate rainforest- epiphytes such as mosses and ferns grow atop other plants to reach light. Cool temperatures lead to slow decomposition but seedlings grow on "nurse logs" to take advantage of the nutrients from the decomposing fallen logs. Trees can grow very tall due to amount of precipitation. Temperate Grassland (Prairie)- During a fire, while above-ground portions of grasses may perish, the root portions survive to sprout again. Some prairie trees have thick bark to resist fire
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