Ecosystems

Throughout most of Brazil, there are tropical grasslands that consist of vast open land with various trees, under a warm climate. This ecosystem remains there because it matches the tropical wet and dry climate, and reaches an elevation that is high enough that it isn’t a tropical rainforest. Also the latitude is midway between tropical and temperate latitude resulting in the tropical wet and dry ecosystem.

Right around the equator, within the tropical rainforest climate, there is the Brazilian tropical rainforest ecosystem. In this ecosystem, it provides numerous species of animals, which are attracted to the warm and moderate climate. The tropical rainforest contains many types vegetation which are able to grow in this area because of fertile soil that are usually located in low elevated river valleys, just like the area around the Amazon river. The latitude contributes to this ecosystem because it must be positioned right along the equator, or at some low latitude.

Lastly there lay the less substantial ecosystems like the temperate grassland and the mixed forest. Reaching just below the Tropic of Capricorn, the ecosystems have a mid-latitude status where the mixed forest matched the randomly placed marine west coast climate and the temperate grassland matched the humid continental climate.