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Coqui Tree Frog

Abiotic Factors

The climate in Hawaii, Aquatic, subterranean, and terrestrial. Volcanic ash from erupting volcanoes helped to form the first couple of layers of soil on the Hawaiian island. After the lava cools some plants are able to grow right on the ash. Canopy is formed of the twisted branches, twigs, and leaves of the dominant tall, big trees. The crowns of the bigger trees receive most of the sunlight. Tree’s food is produced. The canopy forms a shady creates a protective “umbrella” over the rest of the forest. In a forest ecosystem, each layer in the forest offers different habitat site for forest inhabitants. Each layer has it’s own climate based on differences in the light, temperature, humidity, and wind. Each layer provides a home and food for specific plants and animals.



Threats to the Hawaiian Ecosystem Coqui Tree Frog, the coqui tree frog came from Puerto Rico and it has no natural predator. And it competes with the bird for food and they are reproducing very quickly

Importansce Forests are great providers for the animals and plants They are a source of energy, collect water and influence water quality, preserve soil, absorb carbon dioxide, and create oxygen. Forests provide shelter and food for a variety of living things, provide raw materials for many of the products we use, and offer opportunities for recreation. Not only is the tropical rain forest home to millions of plants and animals, but many products we use in our everyday lives come from rain forests around the world. Bananas, avocados, pineapples, ginger, vanilla, shade-grown coffee, and cashews are all examples of rain forest products. Chicle, used in chewing gum, comes from a tropical tree. Chocolate, from the cacao seed, is also native to the tropical rain forest and oil from the cacao seed is used in suntan lotions, cosmetics and soaps. Latex, from the rubber tree, is used in making the rubber used in flexible tires for heavy equipment. About one-fourth of all the medicines we use come from rain forest plants. The rosy periwinkle contains a chemical that fights leukemia (blood cancer). Curare, from a tropical vine, is used as an anesthetic and to relax muscles for surgery. More than 2,100 varieties of rain forest tropical plants possess cancer fighting properties.. and there may be many that have not even been discovered yet.

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