Environmental Engineering Reference
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The tropical rain forests of South America, Africa, and Southeast Asia are the biosphere's
largest depositories of phytomass, with the richest plant communities, arrayed in several
vertical layers, storing as much as 1,000 t of dry phytomass per hectare. This photograph of
Amazonian forest in Peru is available at http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/
f6/Amazonian_rainforest_2.JPG.
