Chapter 251: Tropical Rainforest
After a beautiful meal, everyone embarked on the long journey with satisfaction.
"Look, there's a rainforest in front of you." A Ph.D. student pointed to the front and shouted, his voice very excited. In the country, there are too few tropical rainforests. Except for the known Xishuangbanna and Hainan, the south is mostly subtropical.
The investigators' eyes were all in unison, and when they looked over, they found that the tropical landscape in front of them was all ecstatic. As everyone knows, tropical rainforests are the most species-rich areas. The appearance of a rainforest landscape here indicates that the species in front of it are extremely rich, and it is undoubtedly a paradise for those who study biology.
"Am you not mistaken? Isn't this a subtropical region? How do you come out with a tropical landscape? "Chen Wu didn't know much.
In fact, not only him, but also Chu Jiaqiang is not very clear about the tropical landscape and the subtropical landscape, and he feels that there is not much difference between the two, both are evergreen broad-leaved forests. These forests are all primeval forests, and this Chu family can distinguish them. In the fifties and sixties, many primeval forests in the south were devastated. Around the seventies and eighties, the state introduced a forest protection policy, and those mountainous areas were planted with pine and fir trees, which were called magnificent plantations.
"Actually, you don't have to be tropical to have a tropical rainforest. The characteristics of the tropical rainforest are also obvious, and the most obvious thing is to look at the vegetation. The vegetation of the tropical rainforest is very rich and unmatched by other ecosystems. The structure of tropical rainforests is very complex due to the wide variety of plants and life forms. It is composed of trees, shrubs, herbs, vines, and epiphytes to form a multi-layered canopy jungle. Among them, there are as many as four or five layers of arbors alone. The forest is also extremely rich in vines and epiphytes. The appearance of the community is evergreen all year round. They grow continuously, and the plants are lush all year round. ”
Fu Shenglin was in a good mood. Catch up on these creatures again for the failing guys.
"The second is the topography, and the variety of topography and landforms has created a variety of rainforest landscapes. Rivers, lakes, waterfalls. The abundant water resources and hot and humid climate environment give birth to a rich and diverse biological species and dense rainforest vegetation. And most importantly, the temperature, which is hot and rainy all year round. Of course, we haven't seen any of this yet, but at a glance, we found that there is a bit of similarity, and the specific ones have to be clearly examined before. ”
Chu Jiaqiang nodded. There were a lot of medicinal herbs in front of him, and the old Taoist priest would stay there in the past, and it was also the farthest place he entered.
"The road ahead is more difficult to walk, and there are a lot of poisons. Be careful, everyone. Chu Jiaqiang reminded. In fact, this is also to give yourself courage, because there may be some poisonous snakes in front of you, which makes people feel cold.
"It's no wonder that it can be a small rainforest, it turned out to be a small basin." An expert in geography spoke.
Chu Jiaqiang and the others were stunned for a moment, and then reacted. It can be seen that a large area in front of it is concave compared to these high mountains. It is no wonder that the climate of the basin is mainly hot and humid.
Chu Jiaqiang led everyone to the edge area, and then said to everyone: "Let's put our things here!" Spend the night here tonight. There is still time. Just go in and investigate, come out later, don't spend the night inside. ”
"Why? Didn't they say that the rainforest generally doesn't have big beasts? Zhou Furong asked.
"Just because there are no big beasts doesn't mean there aren't dangers inside. As I said earlier, there are a lot of poisons in it, not to mention anything else, even mosquitoes can make you insomnia. Chu Jiaqiang's words are not bluffing. Those mosquitoes are not vegetarians, even if they don't bite you at night, they will fly around. You feel like you can't sleep.
This may be a kind of subconscious of human beings, hearing the sound of a mosquito, the subconscious will think that it will bite you next, so you have to beware, as long as you lift your heart, can you still sleep? Obvious question.
"Jia Qiang is right, although the rainforest does not have large beasts, it is the most dangerous place. Take what you need with you, and leave the rest where you are. Fu Shenglin said.
Once inside, the researchers were sure that this was definitely a tropical rainforest. The men hurriedly grabbed the guy they were eating and walked inside. Chu Jiaqiang can only remind everyone to be careful in the back, especially on the head. He remembered that when he was a child, a snake suddenly hung from a branch on his head, and he was so frightened that he lost half of his soul.
The rainforest is home to a wide variety of animals, but is dominated by small, arboreal animals. Another characteristic is that there are many species and few individual species. Especially for insects in the rainforest, it is much easier to find a hundred insects than a hundred insects of the same species. Scientists believe that there are many rainforest insects that remain unrecognized. Large animals such as elephants and hippos are generally found only at the edge of rainforests or in slightly open river valleys.
That's why the zoologists rushed inside. They had a hunch that the rainforest would surprise them even more, and it would be great if they could find some species that humans have not yet recognized.
Not to mention the two botanists, as we all know, tropical rainforests are the world's largest biological gene bank, which provides habitat for more than half of the world's animals and plants, and is the most biodiverse area on the planet. It's no wonder they behave so badly when they start to find out.
And although Chu Jiaqiang knew that there were a lot of disgusting things inside, he couldn't stand the rich medicinal materials inside, so he cautiously slipped in.
In terms of medicine, the rainforest is also known as the "world's largest pharmacy" because of the large number of natural "medicines" found in the rainforest. Tropical rainforests, for example, have the basic ingredients of cocaine, stimulants, hormonal contraceptives and sedatives. Curare and quinine can also be found in tropical rainforests. Drugs for difficult and terminal diseases such as hypertension, leukemia, Parkinson's disease, malignant lymphogranulomatous disease, and multiple sclerosis also come from tropical plants.
And Li Quan and the three of them are still the same, purely the master of soy sauce, and they followed in with curiosity. There were not many people in the group, and after entering the rainforest, they were like ants crawling into the grass, and soon there was no one in sight.
Chu Jiaqiang still has some vague impressions, so he is one step faster than everyone. He knew that there were probably precious medicinal materials there, ready to be transplanted into the Mountains and Rivers Diagram, so he also slowed down and was a few steps ahead of others.
After entering the rainforest, although everyone may not be able to see each other when they are separated, a few exclamations come out from time to time, and the others look strange in the past, especially Chen Wu and the three of them, who have nothing to do.
Especially Li Quan's exclamation, which caused everyone to surround with difficulty, but there was nothing. It turned out that the guy actually saw two snakes fighting, and the guy shouted out in surprise, so frightened that the two snakes immediately fled.
Since then, all the exclamations of Chen Wu and the three of them have been directly filtered. According to the words of those experts, the three of them couldn't dig up any treasures anyway. Zhou Furong didn't refute either, in terms of biological cognition, the three of them did have some eyes and didn't know Mount Tai.