The Effect Of Natural Forces In The Amazon Rainforest

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Throughout their lives tropical rainforests such as the Amazonian rainforest in Brazil have been affected by natural forces like fire storms and drought. These events are random and therefore are very hard to detect. However it is well known that the damage caused by these natural forces cause far less damage then what us humans cause; mainly in the fact that the forest may never recover from human activities but will easily recover from the natural disasters and the ecosystem of that particular forests is less likely to function as well as it should do when human activities destroy part of that area whilst natural activities do not damage any ecosystem enough to completely destroy it. From the surviving remnants of the ecosystem the forest

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