Biodiversity: The Dense Forest Periodical Banter

This week Aimie and Sam have started a special three part series to help promote British Science Week. The theme this year is 'Our diverse planet'. Therefore, we've decided that since this is such a 'diverse' topic, we would split it in to three main parts: The Deep Ocean, The Dense Forest, and The Vast Desert. This week we speak about the dense forest and talk about some weird and wonderful facts we found out and talk about some seriously messed up creatures. 

All links to any references have been provided below: 

The Okapi 

https://www.livescience.com/56233-okapi-facts.html

Plants and cancer treatment 

https://www.intechopen.com/online-first/plants-and-cancer-treatment 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4160808/ 

Forest Biodiversity 

https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/14777830710753857/full/html?skipTracking=true 

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10531-017-1453-2 

https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1365-2664.12854 

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308050296_Habitat_trees_Key_elements_for_forest_biodiversity 

https://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijfr/2013/396345/ 

http://www.yourarticlelibrary.com/environment/forest/forest-types-top-6-types-of-forest-with-diagram/74562 

Australian Flowers 

https://www.anbg.gov.au/aust-veg/australian-flora-statistics.html 

https://www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/plants-and-animals 

Tenrec 

https://pandasthumb.org/archives/2014/02/convergent-evol-1.html 

Sulawesi bear cuscus 

https://www.rainforest-alliance.org/species/sulawesi-bear-cuscus 

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