Ecosystem Diversity

1. Why do tropical rainforests have such immense diversity? How do they maintain their diversity?
As questions said, tropical rainforests have immense diversity. They are home of over 5 million species such as insects, plants, and animals. The reason why rainforests have immense diversity is trees. As its name, they get a lot of rainfalls, which provide animals and plants water. Also, temperature of rainforest region is warm, which makes condition of rainforest better to live.
2. What role do tropical forests play in stabilizing climate and atmosphere? Can we take advantage of and enhance their ability to store carbon? Why is this important? Tropical forests plays pretty significant role in stabilizing climate and atmosphere. From the activity about the carbon level that we did before, I was able to know that carbon level affect to temperature, which have close connection with climate and atmosphere. Of course there are a lot of trees in tropical forests. Those trees absorb carbon dioxide and emit oxygen, which lowers carbon levels. By lowering carbon level, they stabilize climate and atmosphere.

3. How can the data from a tropical rainforest that explains species diversity and abundance be helpful in managing and protecting temperate forests such as those in Yellowstone National Park or any other ecosystem on planet Earth? We can know that every single species have their own important role in food chain. For example, when the wolves in Yellowstone National Park were gone, the balance of ecosystem diversity was broken. As a result, species that were consumed by wolves and below them increases and decreases severely, which means it is unstable.