Deciduous Forest

1. Deciduous Forest By: Ma’Leyah Bunch Alyssa Wrighton And Jomeesha Holley

2. Location • The location of the deciduous forest is in Multitudes

3. Climate The climate has relatively mild summers and cold winters, 76-127 cm precipitation a year.

4. Soil • There is rich topsoil over clay.

5. Plants • There are hardwoods such as oaks beeches hickories, and maples

6. Animals • There are wolves, deer, bears, and a wide variety of small mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles, and insects.

7. Symbiosis • MUTUALISM In this relationship a particular fungal species has an intimate relationship with the roots of a particular species of higher plant. The fungus provides the plant with increased ability to absorb nutrients (particularly phosphorus) and water and often offers some disease resistance. In return the plant offers the fungus energy in the form of carbohydrates in the root sap. Many of these relationships are obligatory. • COMMENSALISM - there are many examples of this type of symbiosis. Many species of moss or algae may live on the bark of a tree. The tree is completely unaffected and the moss or algae has a place to live above the clutter of leaf litter on the ground that would suffocate (eliminate light) to the moss or algal plant. Many animals make homes in trees without damaging the trees. Of course some animals do damage trees when they make their homes. • PARASITISM - One of my favorite parasitic relationships in the deciduous forests here in Ohio is between the American beech tree and a plant called. Beech drops are only found growing under beech trees. Although they are flowering plants, they have beech drops no chlorophyll(they are cream colored) and live entirely on sap absorbed (stolen) from the beech tree. The beech drops have a special root structure called a haustorium which connects them to the host plant

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