AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -However, mushrooms and fungi are critical to life on earth, especially in the rainforests. Fungi invade wood and soil and break them down into nutrients so that they can be reused by other plants and animals.

Detailed explanation-2: -The diversity of macrofungi in tropical forests showed that the highest diversity in the Neotropics occurred in the Amazon Basin with Agaricomycetes, Pyrenomycetes, Xylariaceous, and Hyphomycetous fungi being most species-rich.

Detailed explanation-3: -Other rain forest mammals include sloths, tapirs, jaguars, ocelots, kinkajous, lemurs and agouti. The warm, moist environment is also an ideal habitat for reptiles and amphibians. Many types of frogs, salamanders, snakes and lizards can be found in almost every layer of the forest.

Detailed explanation-4: -The most species-rich fungal communities are in tropical rainforests, new research confirms. The estimated global species richness of fungi, 1.5–5.1 million species, however, seems to be a vast overestimation, according to their data.