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Forests are the dominant terrestrial ecosystem of the earth, and are distributed across the goble
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Forests account for 75% of the gross primary productivity of the Earth’s biosphere, and contain 80% of the earth’s plant biomass.
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There are three broad categories of forest definitions in use;administration,land use, and cover use .A forest is
made up of many layers .
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Starting from the ground level and moving up, the main layers of all forest types are the forest floor, the understory and the canopy.
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The emergent layer exists in tropical rainforests. Each layer has a different set of plants and animals depending upon the availability of sunlight, moisture and food.
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Forests may provide a diversity of ecosystem services including recycling carbon dioxide into oxygen, acting as a carbon sink, aiding in regulating climate, purify water, mitigating natural hazards such as floods, and serving as a genetic reserve.
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Save the nature given by god