Tropical rainforests have a unique charm: the climate is hot all year round, the rainfall is abundant, the seasonal differences are not obvious, the biome succession rate is extremely fast, and it is the habitat of more than half of the animal and plant species in the world...
▲Mengyuan Wonderland Tropical Rainforest
We all know that tropical rainforests are the most stable forest ecosystems on Earth.
The most complex ecosystem on Earth is the forest ecosystem, which has obvious layers, divided into tree layers, shrub layers, herbaceous layers and ground cover layers, creating a good habitat for a variety of animals and plants.
The rainforest is undoubtedly one of the most valuable resources that the earth has given to all living things on the earth, a complex and complete ecosystem in which all animals and plants must find the most suitable mode of survival.
Independent micro rainforest ecosystem
Xishuangbanna is the most well-preserved area of Tropical Ecosystem in China, known as "Plant Kingdom", "Animal Kingdom", "Biological Gene Bank", "An Emerald on the Laurel crown of the Plant Kingdom" and other reputations, Xishuangbanna Tropical Rainforest as the most well-preserved tropical rainforest in China, its ecosystem complexity is far beyond our understanding.
▲ Butterflies
▲ Snails
▲ Stick insects
▲ Malu
The total area of rainforest in Xishuangbanna is 2420.2 square kilometers, with plant species accounting for 1/6 of the country, animal species accounting for 1/4 of the country, and the forest coverage rate is 80.8%.
The abundant variety of flora and fauna and the high forest coverage rate make there are some microscopic small worlds in the rainforest, forming an independent and microscopic ecosystem.
▲ Rainforest fireflies
At the entrance of the Mengyuan Wonderland hike, you can look up and see a tall broad-leaved yellow sandalwood on the mountainside, that is, a very valuable mahogany, and it is worth noting how valuable this tree is, but the microscopic ecosystem formed on its canopy - the Hanging Garden.
▲Mengyuan Wonderland Broad-leaved Yellow Sandalwood
Due to the tall trees of broad-leaved sandalwood, the details in this magical and beautiful microscopic ecosystem cannot be observed without telescopes.
▲Hanging garden details
Hanging Gardens
In the Mengyuan Wonderland Rainforest, it is easy to see that the branches of the canopy are covered with various plants, like a natural small garden, which is a phenomenon in which plants attach to large branches in order to compete for living space.
▲Hanging Garden
This epiphytic phenomenon is very common in tropical rainforests, where the vegetation is dense and tall, and there is basically no sunlight near the ground, and many plants choose to attach themselves to the branches of the canopy layer in order to survive to absorb sunlight and obtain more nutrients.
▲Epiphytic mosses
With the passage of time, more and more plants are epiphytic on the trunks, represented by orchids and bird's nest ferns, which epitomize on the canopy and look like a small garden born in the sky, thus giving this strange rainforest landscape a beautiful name - the hanging garden.
Some vines in the rainforest, through their own function, absorb a large amount of water, leaving a small part of their own needs, and the rest of the discharge outside the body to form a water mist to return to the forest.
Epiphytes such as bird's nest ferns rely on gas to take root to absorb these waters and nutrients in the rainforest, slowly grow and expand.
▲Epiphytic bird's nest fern
They grow and multiply on large trees until they grow leaves, and then slowly other plants are present around them, and then they can form a microscopic ecosystem, and the beautiful hanging garden is formed in this situation.
▲Epiphytic bird's nest fern
epilogue
Tropical rainforest is a complex and complete ecosystem, and it has a variety of magical microscopic ecosystems, it provides a good living space and rich resources for various organisms, making it the most powerful ecosystem in the world, and tropical rainforests also produce almost all of the oxygen for humans.
Therefore, the protection of tropical rainforests and the maintenance of the original ecological environment are extremely important for human beings and even the whole world.