What effect does the destruction of the rain forests currently have and may have in the future?

Answer 1

Destruction of rain forests may cause:

1. Loss of Biodiversity. Since rain forests are homes to huge number of living species. (this including not only rain forests are home to million of species, but also foods and resources upon which these species depend to live...thus no forest...no species or extinction of million of species).

2. Loss of Biodiversity will threaten our existence of human beings because we are a part of the ecosystem. We as a species depend on nature to live....without rain forest and other million of species...we may become extinct as the food chain get extinct or destroy.

3. Since Plants of the rain forests hold water resevoir and release of oxygen, if we destroy forests, we will reduce the water availability throughout the world as well as oxygen.... with out enough water and oxygen...species will further driven to extinction and this including us! And believe me the world even now need water because we have destroyed many body of water. It will become a problem in the future...scary!

4. Plants of the forests does not only contain water but also Carbon Dioxide! If we destroy the rain forests....not only we will reduce body of water but also increase CO2 into the atmosphere...which is dangerous because it will cause global warming and ozone depletion (UV radiation can cause dead to species because it'd alter our DNA which cause cancer in human, and abnormal development in species such as frogs, toads etc...)

5. I would imagine the soil contents would be really bad if there is no plants around. Very ugly land! Ugly planet without plants!

6. It's hard to imagine the primary producers such as plants (in the rain forests) will become extinct....without the primary producers, there wouldn't be secondary, tertiary, etc.... higher in food chains.

7. Who know what else the world will be like without rain forests or plants.! It could be a lot worse than the possible ideas being presented above.

Please help the world!

Answer 2

The rainforest does not provide the most amount of oxygen in the world. Phytoplankton in the ocean to. There would indeed be less O2 due to a lesser amount of O2 producing trees through cell repiration. The greater effect is the most diverse and most efficent ecosystem in the world. The tropical rain forest has the greatest about of diverstiy in the world. The different root systems, layers of canopy, and the "living floor" provide a variety of habitats and niches for different organisms to occupy. As for efficency, once something dies in a rain forest, the nutrients left behind are almost immediatly used up by the predator or scavngers and decomposers in the system. Later this will be used by plants and trees to create more O2. This cycle happens very quickly and is why the rainforest is so important to the saftey of the biodiversity in the world.

Answer 3

A rather broad question with a wide range of answers. I will just name a few.

1) Loss of biodiversity. The rainforests account a majority of the discovered and as yet undiscovered species on the planet. As these diappear so does many plant and animal species that may hold a cure for any number of diseases humans face.

2) As rainforests disppear so does one of the largest "sinks for carbon dioxide". The forests convert Carbon Dioxide into oxygen and "scrub" it out of the air as emissions around the globe increase and contribute to global warming. As they disappear more and mopre carbon dioxide will remain in the atmosphere.

3) Drastic erosion of the rich soils. With no cover the rich soils will erode rapidly leaving barren fields and silting the rivers and coastal zones potentially destroying important habitats for fisheries.

This by all means is not a complete list but a good start.

Answer 4

Loss of a lot of species diversity.
Many species are going extinct and a tremendous number of e.g. different species of ants, plants, frogs, fungi,
etc live in rain forests.
Without these species we may have lost the opportunity for lots of new medicines, new improved breeds of things, etc.
Think of it this way. Over 4 billion years, the tree of life
has evolved tremendous numbers of different genes.
Each gene is a carefully engineered DNA machine
that accomplishes something useful for its owner.
We humans are now
killing off 90% of the species on the planet in one of the largest
mass-extinctions in earth history. That means all that carefully engineered genetic information is being lost forever.

Was that worth it?

Another thing rain forests do is produce a lot of oxygen,
and they alter the climate versus if those rain forests were
replaced with something different.

Answer 5

umm well basically you need trees to be\reathe cause they produce oxygenn.. and umm you aseee if we cut them all down.. i sink we will stop breathing adn were all gonna die =] hope that helps.. ohh and all the animals that live in the rainforest will die first cause you know thats there homes.. i hope your not plannign to chop down heaps of rainforestss and treess.. etc.. bibiii

Answer 6

no where for animals to live beacause food restaraunts like McDonalds and Burger King cut down trees and everything from the rainforest just to make room to grow their sole (i don't eat meat)

Answer 7

we wont be here to find out

Answer 8

no oxygen