An estimated 70-90 percent of life in the rainforest exists in the trees, above the shaded forest floor. Primary tropical rainforest is vertically divided into at least five layers: the overstory, the canopy, the understory, the shrub layer, and the forest floor. Each layer has its own unique plant and animal species interacting with the ecosystem around them. The overstory refers to the crowns of emergent trees which soar 20-100 feet above the rest of the canopy. The canopy is the dense ceiling of closely spaced trees and their branches, while the understory is the term for more widely spaced, smaller tree species and juvenile individuals that form a broken layer below the canopy. The shrub layer is characterized by shrubby species and juvenile trees that grow only 5-20 feet off the forest floor. The forest floor is the ground layer of the forest made up of the trunks of trees, fungus, and low-growing vegetation. These layers are not always distinct and can vary from forest to forest, but serve as a good model of the vegetative and mechanical structures of the forest.
Snakes live in the canopy layer of the rainforest.
Yes, they do. They live in the canopy layer. They are beautiful.
Lianas live in the canopy layer of a rainforest
Cassowaries live on the rainforest floor. They are flightless; neither do they climb.
They live in the canopy section of a rainforest.
a canopy environment is the top of the rainforest.
The canopy is the tops of the trees.
yes. the rainforest's canopy is a thick layer of leaves, and big sticks
Orangutans live in the rainforest canopy. Other animals that live in the canopy are the sloth, toucans, parrots, spider monkeys, and lemurs. The layer under the canopy is called the understory and the layer below that is the rainforest floor.
the canopy.
The canopy is the second layer of a tree in the rainforest. It is 30-40m high above ground.
The canopy is a layer in the rainforest. It is situated below the emergent layer and is the thickest out of all the rainforest layers.