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If a tropical rain forest is removed, it does not regenerate quickly as compared to a tropical deciduous forest this is because.

  1. the soil of rain forest is deficient in nutrients.

  2. propagules of the trees in a rain forest have poor viability.

  3. the rain forest species are slowgrowing.

  4. exotic species invade the fertile soil of rain forest.
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Explanation

The rainforest soil is often of a reddish color, rather than brown. Nutrient levels in the soil are very low. This can be attributed to the clays in the rainforest soil are less chemically active and therefore less efficient at retaining nutrients and at depths of just a few centimetres below the soil surface, there is practically no organic matter at all.

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