The temparate rainforest is like a house with 4 stories.
The vegetation and animals in this place are highly interdependent.

The tropical rainforest can be compared to a four-story house (3 regular layers and a basement), since houses usually contain families that function together as a unit. The rainforest is like this in a lot of ways. Each layer is interdependent; they profit from the other layers. The layer that we would think of as a basement has a flat stale wet humus blanket with a few leaves that have fallen from the trees. This level houses a number of microorganisms. They are needed to decompose the biological material falling from all layers above. They are the recyclers of the rainforest. They give fertilizer to the plants and trees from the higher layers It is quite hot and moist, and there’s nearly no natural light, which makes it very dark. It’s home to many insects and creatures like jaguars, tapirs, gorillas, wild boars and creatures that burrow. The plants that are located in this area must struggle for the little light that comes through. There are many plants with what is identified as air roots, or plants that are opportunistic. These plants live on branches of plants or trees that have ground roots.Inevitably, these “piggy-back” plants may strangle the host trying to reach light.

These parasites wind up to the first and second floors. The first layer doesn’t have much more daylight than the basement, concealing below trees with enormous leaves. However, it’s a little more open. It’s not as sweltering as the basement. There is certain breeze. This floor is home to a great number of plants with short leaves that do not require much soil. There are various species of plants that dwell in the tree bark. There are also numerous bugs, reptiles and some small creatures that reside amongst these plants. Insect consuming birds are also found in these limbs which have so much food for them. These limbs serve as an incredible camouflaging place for various apes and jaguars when they try to find food on the levels.

The 2nd floor of the rainforest house is regarded as the canopy, enveloped in giant broad green leaves, sun-lovers open to the elements, blooming and fruiting all year. Here you will find a number of orchids, and bromeliads full of water pockets full of insects, amphibians, reptiles and even crabs transported by birds from the coast lines. When up in this 3rd floor it is practically impossible to see the forest floor below, but the magnificence of a different world not viewable from below shows up.

The top floor (also named the emergent layer) houses the highest of the trees. They even get to the stature of one hundred thirty five ft! In the early morning you can see birds feeding off flowers here, and creatures collected in the bromeliad cups. Here is where photosynthesis happens. This is a chemical effect in which water, carbon-dioxide and solar power are transformed into sugar and oxygen.

The plants use the strength for growth and to enhance the reproductive activities. The sugar that is left after that is amassed in the leaves, stem and roots of the plant. This serves as food for whatever feeds on the plants. An excess benefit that this process produces is oxygen. It is released into the environment by the plants. In return, the plants recieve CO2.

This towering house is home to plenty of animals. Most of these animals like their home, which makes them really territorial. Nonetheless, these animals depend very much on the family. This dependancy is very similar to how the trees rely on the diverse layers. There are instances in which their movements depend on when the the trees flower and give fruits. Many birds are examples of this case. There are others that eat cellulose leaves, like the sloth and the howler monkey. Cellulose can’t be digested by most creatures. Nonetheless, the sloth is able to do so.

The three toed sloth is a good example of interdependence. This creature loves ingesting the cecropia tree leaves, and it feeds almost exclusively on them. On account of hanging upside down so much, this distinctive creature’s hair grows from its belly to its back. Due to the humidity and the slow movements that the sloth makes, green algae grows in the fur. The sloth’s slow motions and the lack of the need for a lot of food is established by its slow metabolism. Once a week, when it descends to the ground, this animal urinates and passes faeces.

A certain moth lives in the sloths fur. When the sloth descends, the moth lays its eggs in the waste and flys back to the sloth’s fur. The eggs hatch, and the new moths look for other sloths to live in.

These elements, all put together are what makes the exotic rainforest special and ingenious. Any kind of interruption of any part would have an effect on it as a whole. This eco-system feeds the planet too.

One-fifth of the globe’s biodiversity in plant and animal realms can be found in Costa Rica. The good thing is that one fourth of this country boasts rainforest national property, parks and reserves.