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| Climate - Influence of Climate on the
Past |
| The Amazon has a rich diversity
of plants and animals. It is a haven for thousands of species of plants and
animals. The reason the Amazon has great biodiversity is due to the last Ice Age
which occurred approximately 2.5 million years ago. When large glacial ice masses
encroached upon the continents, places like the Amazon rainforest became a refuge for
creatures because year-round temperatures stayed pretty constant and the forest had warm
weather, conditions hospitable for many plants and animals. Animals generally moved
towards the tropics by locomotory means such arms or legs. Plants moved more slowly
because the only way they could move is by seed dispersion. When plants disperse
their seeds, they let them out all over. Seeds that were dispersed more closer to
the tropics and the Amazon, had a better chance of surviving than those seeds that were
dispersed away from the tropics. |
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