Tropical rainforest
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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.
See also
- International Tropical Timber Organization
- List of tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests ecoregions
- Palaeogeography
- Rainforest
- Temperate rain forest
- Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests
- Tropical rainforest climate
- Tropical Africa
- Tropical vegetation
