Ecology 🌎🌲🌳🌿🌱 Flashcards
Tropical rainforest
Equater
High precipitation and has 6 to 7 dry months
Hot/warm little variation
Lots of layers of plants (competition for light)
Big trees, large leafs, large diversity of animals (generally small)
Humans are destroying/ cutting down
Desert
30” north and south of equater
Low amounts of precipitation
Very hot to cool temperatures (extremes)
Low veriety of plants, lots of bare ground, CAM photosynthesis
Reduced leaf surface
Small animals ( snakes lizards scorpions ants, Beatles migratory birds, rodents)
Reduction of natural diversity do to irrigation
Savanna
Equatorial (tropical)
Medium precipitation with dry season
Warm/hot all year round
Scattered trees
Lots of grass (fire adapted)
Large graizing animals and large predators
Lots of migration
Frequent fires kill trees and hunting causes decline in animals
Chaparral
Midlatitude regions (ie spain/itialy/socal)
Medium amount of moisture ( rainy winters/dry summers)
Warm temperatures year round
Lots of shrubs and small trees with many grasses and herbs lots of diversity in plants and some need fire to germinate
Browsers ( goats deer small amphibions birds reptiles
Heavily settled and agricultural conversion
Lots of fires
Temperate grassland
Praries of North America and Europe ie(Russia Ukraine)
Medium amount of moisture
Cold winters hot summers
Lots of grasses
Large grazing animals and burrowing animals
Ideal for agriculture lots of farm land
Cattle make it into a desert
Northern coniferous forest
Canada russia
Decent amount of rain (pnw gets a lot of rain)
Cold winters hot summers
Lots of cone bearing trees that are shaped for snow
Moose bears tigers insects
Logging in northern areas
Temperate broadleaf forest
Northern hemisphere eastern USA Europe New Zealand
Lots of rain and snow
Seasonal cold and warm
Vertícle layers of plants trees loose leaves in the winter
Mammals birds and insects
Highly settled by humans logging ag
(Recovering)
Tundra
Very north of Canada and Russia
Alpine tundra on mountain tops
Not a lot of rain
Cold year round
Mosses grasses has a permafrost layer which restricts most plant growth
Large grazing musk ox
Caribou reindeer bears wolves foxes birds in the summer
Lots of oil extraction
Intertidal biome
Sometimes under water (high tide)
Or exposed to air (low tide)
Animals must cling to ricks so they are not thrown by waves
Coral reef biome
Greatest diversity of ocean life
(Single cell coral) create shelf in shallow water that is warm
High o2
High density of life
Found close to land are being destroyed by humans
Estuary
Mix of salt and fresh water (brackish)
Very murky
High in nutrients that are brought by the rivers
Animals must adapt to saline levels
Wetlands
Stagnet water
Flood barrier
Not o2 rich
Nutrients locked in soil
Plants grow in the bottom and come out into the air (mangrove trees)
Carnivore plants
Rivers
Start out nutrient poor but gain more nutrients as the flow down towards the ocean
