Click here for more information . They are less abundant than tropical rainforests. It is almost always raining in a rainforest. In a temperate rainforest, there are wet and dry seasons. The temperature in a rainforest never freezes and never gets very hot.
Thick clay lies underneath the soil.
Once damaged, the soil of a tropical rainforest takes many years to recover. Temperate rainforests have soil that is richer in nutrients, relatively young and less prone to damage. The rainforests recycle and clean water. Tropical rainforest trees and plants also remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store it in their roots, stems, leaves, and branches. Rainforests affect the greenhouse effect , which traps heat inside the Earth's atmosphere .