From the above analysis of ecological distribution we may see that the rainforest provides a variety of habitats for amphibians and that these habitats are suitable for amphibian life throughout the year.
A village on the Rio de los Milagros, a tributary to the Rio Coatzacoalcos; rainforest [35].
The seasonal variation in rainfall probably is the chief factor in hindering the development of a rainforest climax vegetation.
Central Ridges The vegetation of the central ridges of the isthmus is, for the most part, transitional between the tall rainforest of the Gulf Coastal Plain and the low xerophytic scrub forest of the semi-arid Pacific Coastal Plain.
Throughout the month of July, 1956, Phyllomedusa was breeding in ponds in or adjacent to the rainforest in northern Oaxaca and in southern Veracruz.
A village on a small river of the same name in the western foothills of Los Tuxtlas; rainforest [5].
Especially on the northern slopes, tropical rainforest is well developed; this is replaced at about 1200 meters by cloud forest.
In comparing the ecological differences in the amphibian assemblages in the three major habitats, the most obvious difference is the great percentage of arboreal species in the rainforest as compared with savanna and scrub forest.
A large town on the Trans-isthmian Highway; rainforest [21].
On the northern slopes of the ridges the rainforest is more poorly developed than on the plains to the north.
During the dry season the more extensive marshes in the savannas persist; many ponds and most of the streams in the rainforest are permanent throughout the year.
A village on the Trans-isthmian Highway, 45 kilometers south of Acayucan; rainforest and palm forest [24].
Characteristically this species inhabits savannas and open forest; thus, its occurrence in the rainforest at Toocog is surprising.
The area studied by me and my companions is covered with rainforest and lies to the north of the highlands of Alta Verapaz and to the south of the savannas of central El Peten.
Specimens were obtained in rainforest in the immediate vicinity of the settlement.
In this habitat the third dimension (height) of the rainforest probably is the most complex insofar as the inter-relationships of species and ecological niches are concerned.
From the examples discussed above, the importance of the three dimensional aspect of the rainforest is apparent.
Specimens were obtained in the rainforest and in cleared areas in the immediate vicinity of the town.
Obviously, the diversity of ecological niches in the rainforest is sufficient to support a variety of related species.
Rainforest at edge of savanna at Toocog, El Peten, Guatemala.
Mostly second growthrainforest with scattered large patches of tall trees (to 30 meters).
A village five kilometers east of X-can, Yucatan, inrainforest with dense underbrush.
The Panamanian populations are geographically separated from the Costa Rican and more northern populations by an area of tropical rainforest in the Golfo Dulce region in southeastern Costa Rica and adjacent Panama.
This, according to him, was where he tested the rainforest plants the shamans and midwives brought in.
This whole elaborate recreation wasn't about rainforest drugs and research into fertility; it was just a cover to use the bodies of these intensely believing Native Americans.
It actually goes back about ten years ago, when I was prospecting for rainforest plants up here in the Peten and accidentally stumbled across this isolated village, which clearly had been here since classical times.
In an ancient rainforest all things are still possible.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rainforest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
