How might the extinction of plants species from a tropical rain forest affect animals that live in the forest?

Answer 1

Knowing that more than 50% of the world's amimals and plants live in the tropical rainforests is extremely important. This means that we must sustain the rainforests so that the animals have a habitat. Otherwise, when trees are cut down, the plants and animals that live in these tree will die for they have no where else to live. This leads to the animals and plants that live in the soil.

The dramatic loss of trees, that anchor the soil with its roots, causes widespread erosion throughout the tropics. The only good soils that are able to survive are cleared away by the rain because the trees leaves aren't there to stop it from getting to the soil. Rica loses about 860 million tons of trop soil after deforestation while the Great Red Island, Madagascar loses so much soil to erosion (400 tons/ha) that its rivers turn red-blood, staining the Indians oceans.

After rainfall rains on cleared forest lands, the run off the damaged trop soils are carried into local rivers and creaks. Hydroelectric products and irrigation infrastructure lose productivity from siltation while industrial installations suspend operations due to the lack of fresh water.

It also damages fishes for the increased sediment load in rivers smothers the fish eggs causing them to hatch slower. When the suspended particles of sediment get towards the ocean the water turns cloudy causing the coral reefs to die off and effects coastal fisheries' businesses.

Answer 2

It destroys trees, plants and animals and it takes away there homes/habitat.

If we lose the tropical rain forest we could lose the discoveries of new medicines (the tropical rain forest is where we get most of our now used medicines today).

Also we are polluting the rest of the forest and the earth with the gases the machines used to cut down trees.

Short answer

Deforestation destroys the forest and is not good.

Answer 3

ANIMALS: What if all your entire habitat was taken away from you? What would you do? This is how animals feel when their rainforest home was started to be chopped down. Some animals eat the plants that were chopped down. As a result, there is less food and habitat to live in.

PLANTS: plants are chopped down.

Answer 4

Deforestation is by definition the killing of plants.

Answer 5

by the animals having no place to live and dying

Answer 6

how might the extinction of an edible species of plant from a tropical rain forest affect animals that live in the forest

Answer 7

it kills them

Answer 8

by thefood and water it gives