Heath forest

Heath forest is a type of tropical moist forest found in areas with acidic, sandy soils that are extremely nutrient-poor.Heath forest is a type of tropical moist forest found in areas with acidic, sandy soils that are extremely nutrient-poor. The PH level is four which is what cause the soil to be very acidic.Heath forest weakens very quickly to bleached sand once the forest cover is removed, making a heath forest fragile.Heath forest do not have many animals due to low productivity caused by poor soils. Heath Forest are easily crippled by logging or burning activities. Leaving the trees densely packed and difficult to penetrate.Once the Heath forest trees are weakened they develop into open meadow of hedges.Trees usually reach the height of 20 meters.In a Heath Forest three thousand species of trees exist and two hundred and sixty seven are dipterocarpaceae(two winged fruit).The indigenous people live in tropical moist forest live mainly near rivers.Canoes make transportation easy for trade and communication among tribes.Notable examples are the Rio Negro campinarana of the Amazon Basin in South America, and the Sundaland heath forests (also known as Kerangas forests) of Borneo and neighboring islands.

External links

• Rio Negro campinarana (World Wildlife Fund)
• Sundaland heath forests (World Wildlife Fund)

http://www.eduweb.com/rainforest/wholives.html
http://www.worldwildlife.org/wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/im/im0161_full.html

Journal Plant Ecology Publisher Springer Netherlands

This account belongs to a group of students taken discovering geopraphy at SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY GROUP P1 Shabara Ryan Michael Allison