Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Meaning and Importace of Forest

 Let us try looking at the meaning and the importance of forest. The definition of forest is an area with a high density of trees. Actually, there are two kinds of forest types: temperate and boreal forest types; and tropical forest types. Between types of forest have specific character each other. Forest can also be classified more specifically related on the dominant tree species present, specific climate, and the altitude of place. Forest sometimes comprise many tree species wthin small area, or it is sometimes just few species in large areas. Forest becomes home to many animals, plant species, and microorganism. Forests take hold of vitallity in soil nutritions cycle, it shows from microorganism can be a decomposer for the biomass materials.
    
The benefit of forest divided into direct benefit and indirect benefit. The example of forest direct-benefit is tree. Tree has a lot of adventages to our life. Wood of the trees can be a raw material to make furniture. Leaves can be an organic fertilizer such as compos; extract of the leaf can be an oil. Branch of trees can be a fuel burning. Some fruit of the tree are edible: jackfruit, matoa, kingfruit, sapodilla, etc. The fiber of tree becomes raw material of paper and particle board. Economic interest shows that tree has a big benefit. It is about long time period and long investation.
   
Nowdays, we realize that a lot of tree spesies are extinction can make a high price. It is a big chance to make a competitive business for kinds of commercial timber. Forests are of vital fungtions: as habitats for organism, hydrologic flow modulator, soil conservations, ecotourism, including one of the most important aspects of the earth’s biosphere; photosynthesis process shows that tree can reduce emition gases change to be fresh air which is usefull for respiration; all of this fungtions included forest indirect-benefit. As long as human still need food, oxygen for brething, paper for writing, it means that forest still important for us.

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