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Biomes

Biomes. Biomes. A terrestrial ecosystem determined by: A. climate B. vegetation and C. organisms adapted to the environment. Wetland. Ecosystem intermediate between an aquatic and a terrestrial one Soil is saturated with water permanently or periodically. Estuary.

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Biomes

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  1. Biomes

  2. Biomes • A terrestrial ecosystem determined by: • A. climate • B. vegetation and • C. organisms adapted to the environment

  3. Wetland • Ecosystem intermediate between an aquatic and a terrestrial one • Soil is saturated with water permanently or periodically

  4. Estuary • is where freshwater stream or river emerge with the ocean

  5. familiar examples of estuaries • San Francisco Bay • Puget Sound • Chesapeake Bay • Boston Harbor • Tampa Bay • Mississippi Delta

  6. Mississippi Delta

  7. Productive • Estuaries provide habitat for more than 75% of America's commercial fish catch, and for 80-90% of the recreational fish catch

  8. Louisiana Coastal Issues • Louisiana's combined land loss/subsidence and loss of wetlands has made them much more vulnerable to hurricanes than ever before

  9. Problems • RADIO MESSAGE: and Handout • Restoring the Mississippi, Part 1: Reducing Dead Zones in Louisiana's Gulf Coast

  10. Levees Create Problems • Levees have cut off the normal overflow of sediment from the Mississippi River which would otherwise gradually rebuild the coast.

  11. Rocky Intertidal • Big Sur, California

  12. Tundra • Rainfall less than 10 inches (low) • Alpine Tundra at high elevation.

  13. Tundra: Cold WindTemperature: -40°C to 18°C • Arctic Tundra is circumpolar (scanty Antarctic).

  14. Tundra(Circumpolar)

  15. Tundra Cotton grass • Treeless • low (less than 1 m) vegetation • water frozen (Permafrost) • Typical plants: sedges, lichens, mosses, grasses, and dwarf woody plants.

  16. Tundra • Typical animals: snowy owls, musk ox, reindeer, polar bears, and migrant birds Musk ox

  17. Has 4 Seasons

  18. Temperate Deciduous Forest • Rainfall 60-150cm/30-60 inches • Medium • Temperature: -10°C to 25°C • hot summers, cold winters

  19. Temperate Deciduous Forest

  20. Temperate Deciduous Forest • Tall trees creating deep shade.

  21. Temperate Deciduous Forest • Typical plants include maples, oaks, elms, spruce

  22. Temperate Deciduous Forest • Typical animals include deer and squirrels.

  23. Boreal Forest (Taiga)Coniferous

  24. Taiga • Cold winters with deep snow, but longer growing season than tundra. • TEMPERATURE: -30oC to 20oC • Periodic fires common.

  25. Taiga • Rainfall 8-50 cm/12-33 inches • Medium

  26. Taiga • PLANTS: dense evergreen needle-leafed forest, white spruce, black spruce, and jack pine.

  27. Taiga • Typical animals: moose, black bears, wolves, and migrant birds.

  28. Intense solar radiation High winds Large diurnal temperature fluctuations Taiga

  29. Grasslands • Rainfall:25-75cm/ 10-30 inches Medium • EXAMPLES: • Savannas or veldt (Africa) • Steppes (Eurasia) • Pampas (S. America) • Prairies (N. America)

  30. Cold or warm winters with growing seasons with moisture too dry for trees. Grasslands

  31. GrasslandsTropical Savanna

  32. Temperate Grasslands

  33. Grasslands (Steppe) • Treeless vegetation less than 1 m high.

  34. Savanna • Cheetahs are well-adapted predators who prey on grazing animals

  35. Savanna (Africa)

  36. Prairie • Typical plants include grasses and members of the sunflower family. • FescuePrairie,Canada • Sunflowers, ND

  37. Typical animals: large grazing ungulates such as horses, buffalo, and rhinoceros. Veldt Africa

  38. Pampas • Treeless plains of Argentina

  39. CHAPARRAL • Typical plants: oaks, manzanita, chamise low pines, and junipers.

  40. CHAPPARAL(a little bit found in all continents) “”Wild West". Hot and dry

  41. CHAPARRAL • sparse • Low trees • shrubs

  42. sparse drought-resistant vegetation, typically spiny and with tiny leaves and photosynthetic bark. DESERT

  43. DESERT • Rainfall less than 25cm/10 inches • Low • Evaporation High • Temperature: 10oC to 29oC in hot deserts

  44. Polar Desert Turkestan • Polar Desert: -2oC to 26oC • Antarctica • Pantagonia • Turkestan • Gobi • Namib Emperor Penguins Antarctica

  45. Hot Desert • Typical plants include cacti, acacias and short-lived annuals. Prickly pear

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