Canopy and forest floor
Emergents and canopy
Forest floor and deep floor
Emergents and the sky
To attract animals
To store sugar to use later
For humans to eat
Rainforests get between 0 and 50 inches of rain a year.
Adult ants eat the leaves
They use it to build a nest
They feed it to fungus, which ant larvae eat
Ant larvae eat the leaves
Abnormal
Emergent
Strangler fig
Equatorial tree
Lay eggs for tadpole food
All of the above
Find pockets of water for them
Carry them to pockets of water
It cools them off
It acts as camouflage
Sloths eat algae and bacteria
It attracts insects the sloth eats