Types of Forests and Forest Function

Kinds / Types of Forests In Indonesia And Function Forests For Life On Earth Indonesia is one country that has vast forest in the world. Forest area is used to reach 113 million hectares and continues to be reduced drastically due to ignorance and criminal elements in government who are always hungry for money with a chop and denude forests for large profits without looking at the impact of the global environment.

Here below are the division of all kinds / types of forest in the Republic of Indonesia with the meaning of the definition and understanding:

1. 1. Mangrove Forest
Mangrove forests are forests that grow in coastal areas muddy. Example: the east coast of Borneo, the south coast cilacap, etc..

2. 2. Forest Sabana
Forest forest grassland savanna is spacious with a very small number of trees with low rainfall. Example: Nusa southeast.

3. 3. Swamp Forest
Swamp forest is a forest in swampy areas with palm plants growing in swamp forest. Example: southern Papua, Kalimantan, and so on.

4. 4. Tropical Rain Forest
Tropical rain forest is dense forest / jungle forest that grew around the equator / ukuator that have rained rainfall is very high. Forest type this one has a high humidity level, landless fertile, high humus and wet and difficult to enter by humans. This forest is very popular illegal logging and illegal loggers are also wicked fun destroying forests and cost the state billions of dollars. Example: Borneo forest, Sumatran forests, etc..

5. 5. Forest Season
Monsoon forest is a forest with high rainfall but had a long drought period that renders the leaves in the forest surrounding the dry time.