Text and pop-up illustrations depict the rich variety of plant and animal life found in a tropical rain forest.

Discusses the plants, animals, and characteristics of the tropical rain forest biome.

This is a comprehensive, attractive, and readable introduction to tropical rain forest ecology, biogeography, and management. It tackles the subject at local, regional, and global scales, and is both up-to-date and fully integrated across disciplines.

Let’s explore! Discover the wonders of the rain forests from dazzling blue morpho butterflies in the Amazon Basin to fruit bats high in the emergent layer in this unique guide featuring five amazing 3-D pop-up scenes. The rain forests are bursting with life! Covering just 6 percent of the Earth’s surface, rain forests are home to more than 60 percent of all known animal species. From the riverbed to the treetops, kids can explore the many fascinating layers of the rain forest in 3-D Explorer: Rain Forest. This amazing book gives kids a close-up view of the plants and animals that inhabit the dense jungles. Filled with engaging facts and spectacular photography, this book also features five dramatic 3-D pop-up scenes with transparent layers that reveal the secrets of each rain forest zone.

Lyrical words and lush, naturalistic paintings introduce children to the tropical rain forest and the animals that live within its wet, green world. From swinging monkeys and upside-down-hanging sloths to graceful caimans and stalking jaguars, Here Is the Tropical Rain Forest envelops young readers in a stunning jungle while teaching them an important lesson about the ecosystem. Madeleine Dunphy’s rhythmical, cumulative text shows how each plant and animal of the rain forest is inextricably linked with the others in a chain of life. Michael Rothman’s deeply hued and shadowed paintings brilliantly evoke this singular environment.

The goal of this book is to provide a current overview of the impacts of climate change on tropical forests, to investigate past, present, and future climatic influences on the ecosystems with the highest biodiversity on the planet.Tropical Rainforest Responses to Climatic Change will be the first book to examine how tropical rain forest ecology is altered by climate change, rather than simply seeing how plant communities were altered. Shifting the emphasis onto ecological processes e.g. how diversity is structured by climate and the subsequent impact on tropical forest ecology, provides the reader with a more comprehensive coverage. A major theme of this book that emerges progressively is the interaction between humans, climate and forest ecology. While numerous books have appeared dealing with forest fragmentation and conservation, none have explicitly explored the long term occupation of tropical systems, the influence of fire and the future climatic effects of deforestation, coupled with anthropogenic emissions. Incorporating modelling of past and future systems paves the way for a discussion of conservation from a climatic perspective, rather than the usual plea to stop logging.