There are two major types
of wet tropical woods: equatorial evergreen woods and moist woods. Equatorial
woods are characterized by more than 6.5 feet of rain annually spread evenly
throughout the year. These woods have the highest biological diversity and
have a well developed canopy tier form of vegetation.
Roughly two-thirds of the world's tropical wet woods can be considered
the equatorial type. Tropical moist woods are found at a greater distance
from the equator where rainfall and day length vary seasonally. During this
dry season, many trees shed some or even all their leaves, creating a seasonal
reduction of canopy cover and allowing more sunlight to reach the woods
floor. The ground floor is generally clear of heavy vegetation because the
full canopy allows very little light, necessary for growth, to penetrate.
Montana tropical wet woods is woods that grows on mountains and above an
altitude of 3300 feet. Montana woods are often manifested as cloud woods,
woods that receive the majority of its precipitation from mist or fog that
passes up from the moist, humid lowlands. Trees places like the lower elevations
of the Andes - Ecuador, Peru, Colombia, and Venezuela; Central America,
Monteverde- Costa Rica particular; Borneo Mount Kinabalu; and Africa, Ethiopia,
Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, Zaire, are frequently green with dense moss.
West Africa, where over 90% of the coastal wet woods. The equatorial flora
of Southeast Asia is one of the richest. A single 50-hectare plot of lowland
wet woods Pasob Malaysia possesses 830 species over 10 mm diameter; over
1200 species were identified a similar sample area- Sarawak. 250,000 flowering
identified worldwide, 15 percent occur on the Malay Peninsula and the Southeast
Asian archipelago. Botanists have broadly divided Asia and the Pacific to
five floristic regions: Malaysia, Australasia, and Pacific.
This report will consider two of these regions: the Malaysia, which comprises
Malaysia, the Philippines, Brunei, and Papua-New Guinea; whose floristic
region stretches from Burma to southern China, and south to Thailand. About
420 million years ago, during the Silurian Period, ancient trees and arthropods
began to occupy the land. Over the millions of years that followed, these
land colonizers developed and adapted to their new habitat.
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