Regnskov

En regnskov er en skov, der har sit tilnavn fra den daglige regn. Regnskove opstår overalt, hvor nedbørsmængden overstiger fordampningstabet måned for måned.

Regnskoven producerer bioaerosoler og påvirker skydannelse, tågedannelse og nedbøren væsentligt – og dermed både vejret og klimaet. ^[1][2][3][4]

Hele verdens regnskove består af et utrolig varieret planteliv. Bare i Amazonasområdet er der omkring 80.000 forskellige plantearter. I regnskovene i Afrika, Sydamerika og Sydasien er der omkring 180.000 forskellige plantearter. Det vil sige at næsten to tredjedele af verdens plantearter er på mindre end 7 % af jordens areal.^{[kilde mangler]}

1. ^ Max Planck Society. (2004, February 26). Astonishing Discovery Over The Amazonian Rain Forest. ScienceDaily Citat: "...natural aerosols from the Amazonian rain forest...These aerosol particles give rise to the formation of haze and reduce the visibility in forested areas. They have an effect on cloud formation and influence rainfall and climate..."
2. ^ Penn State. (2004, May 6). Missing Chemical Important To Air Pollution Estimates. ScienceDaily Citat: "..."We think we measured all major components of the hydroxyl radical reactants, but there is something still unaccounted for,” says Brune. "We know that something we cannot identify is reacting with the hydroxyl radicals and we know it is temperature dependent and not light dependent. We just do not know what it is."..."
3. ^ California Institute of Technology (2009, August 7). Organic Carbon Compounds Emitted By Trees Affect Air Quality. ScienceDaily Citat: "..."The king emitters are oaks," Wennberg says. "And the isoprene they emit is one of the reasons that the Smoky Mountains appear smoky."..."And isoprene only comes from plants. They make hundreds of millions of tons of this chemical...for reasons that we still do not fully understand."..."
4. ^ Carnegie Mellon University. (2014, May 15). Emissions from forests influence very first stage of cloud formation. ScienceDaily Citat: "...This new study uncovers an indispensable ingredient to the long sought-after cloud formation recipe -- highly oxidized organic compounds..."It turns out that sulfuric acid and these oxidized organic compounds are unusually attracted to each other. This remarkably strong association may be a big part of why organics are really drawn to sulfuric acid under modern polluted conditions," Donahue said...The fine-tuned model not only predicted nucleation rates more accurately but also predicted the increases and decreases of nucleation observed in field experiments over the course of a year, especially for measurements near forests. This latter test is a strong confirmation of the fundamental role of emissions from forests in the very first stage of cloud formation, and that the new work may have succeeded in modeling that influence..."