True rainforests are typically found between 10 degrees north and south of the equator ; they are a sub-set of the tropical forest biome that occurs roughly within the 28-degree latitudes.
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13 Facts About Tropical rainforests
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Tropical rainforests have been called the "world's largest pharmacy", because over one quarter of natural medicines have been discovered within them.
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Tropical rainforests are among the most threatened ecosystems globally due to large-scale fragmentation as a result of human activity.
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Tropical rainforests have existed on earth for hundreds of millions of years.
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The division left tropical rainforests located in five major regions of the world: tropical America, Africa, Southeast Asia, Madagascar, and New Guinea, with smaller outliers in Australia.
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However, the specifics of the origin of Tropical rainforests remain uncertain due to an incomplete fossil record.
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Tropical rainforests are located around and near the equator, therefore having what is called an equatorial climate characterized by three major climatic parameters: temperature, rainfall, and dry season intensity.
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Tropical rainforests forests are classified by the amount of rainfall received each year, which has allowed ecologists to define differences in these forests that look so similar in structure.
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Soils throughout the tropical rainforests fall into two classifications which include the ultisols and oxisols.
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However, not all tropical rainforests occur on nutrient poor soils, but on nutrient rich floodplains and volcanic soils located in the Andean foothills, and volcanic areas of Southeast Asia, Africa, and Central America.
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Tropical rainforests called these patches of rainforest areas refuges and within these patches allopatric speciation occurred.
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Tropical rainforests have harboured human life for many millennia, with many Indian tribes in South- and Central America, who belong to the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, the Congo Pygmies in Central Africa, and several tribes in South-East Asia, like the Dayak people and the Penan people in Borneo.
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Tropical rainforests forests have supplied 250 cultivated kinds of fruit, compared to only 20 for temperate forests.
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