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Comparing Tropical
and Temperate Rain Forests
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Tropical Rainforest |
Temperate Rain Forest |
| Contain more than
half of all the different species of plants and animals on earth |
Contain |
| Little seasonal temperature
variation |
Has seasonal termperature variations |
| Hundreds of kinds of large trees per acre |
Few species of large trees |
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A square metre of rain forest can support between 45 and 80
kg of living material, or biomass, far more than any other ecological
region
A square metre of rain forest can produce up to 3.5 kg of
biomass per year
A square metre of rain forest can produce up to 15
billion tonnes of carbon, one of the most important ingredients
of all known life, per year. Deserts,
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