Tropical rainforests are rainforests that occur in areas of tropical rainforest climate in which there is no dry season – all months have an average precipitation of at least 60 mm – and may also be referred to as lowland equatorial evergreen rainforest. True rainforests are typically found between 10 degrees north and south of the equator (see map); they are a sub-set of the tropical forest biome that occurs roughly within the 28-degree latitudes (in the equatorial zone between the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn). Within the World Wildlife Fund's biome classification, tropical rainforests are a type of tropical moist broadleaf forest (or tropical wet forest) that also includes the more extensive seasonal tropical forests.熱帯雨林（ねったいうりん）は、年間を通じてで雨量の多い地域に形成される植生、またはその地域のことである。熱帯降雨林（ねったいこううりん）とも呼ばれる。植物生態学では熱帯多雨林（ねったいたうりん）が正しい名称である。ジャングル（英: jungle）、セルバとも呼ばれる。なお、ジャングルの原義は熱帯雨林そのものではない（「ジャングル (森林の型)」を参照）。 (Source: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Tropical_rainforest) |
