desert hot=20-25 degrees Celsius or 68-77 F desert plants store water,stand hot weather and hold lots of nutrients chaparral vegetation has been cut down and damming has occurred both interfere with wildlife plant trees and dam regulations ^view picture^ chaparral people living in this dry environment take precaution against fires chaparral soil is prone to erosion->rocky chaparral 10-40 degrees Celsius or 50-104 F chaparral animals here are small and nocturnal chaparral for plants to hold moisture, they have small and hard leaves chaparral ladybug, jack rabbit,acorn woodpecker and South America, "the Cape Town area of South Africa, the western tip of Australia and the coastal areas of the Mediterranean." deciduous deforestation and urban development plant trees and build up,not out deciduous deciduous many farms and towns here,very ideal place to live deciduous soil is fertile due to leave decomposition deciduous forest temperature is 10 degrees Celsius or 50 F. deciduous forest animals hibernate in the winter and eat off land when not hibernating Soaking up the nutrients in the ground is also a way of adaptation. deciduous "The plants have adapted to the forests by leaning toward the sun. deciduous spiders,salamanders and cardinals deciduous trees,trees and more tree species!! deciduous forest Eastern North America and mid Europe grasslands negative human impacts are not practicing crop rotation and oil production these cause nutrient deprivation and runoff crop rotation can be practiced and renewable energy could be used grasslands grasslands many humans farm in this temperate area grasslands some of the world's most nutrient rich soil because of decay of plant roots grasslands -40-21 degrees Celsius or -40 to 70 F. grasslands temperate 10-30 inches and tropical 25-60 inches of rain a year grasslands bison have teeth and digestion that supports eating the main plant here and prairie animals have the ability to burrow away from predators grasslands grass here can be eaten by herbivores all they way to the ground and still regrow and grasses here are tough to eat so the high amount of herbivores does not drive extinction grasslands wild turkey,eagles and coyote In the middle of continents grasslands Sunflower and Buffalo Grass grasslands located just north ans south of the tropics middle of U.S., temperate taiga logging and hydro power use habitat destruction and disruption of natural stream pattern practice recycling and relocate animals taiga taiga not a lot of people live here taiga soil is not rich because there is cold and little decomposition taiga -54->21 degrees Celsius or -65 to 70 F taiga many predator and prey relationships birds that can find food in winter stay all year taiga plants are waxy to prevent freezing in winter plants never shed leaves so the can photosynthesize ASAP dark leaves to absorb heat snow slides off branches taiga coniferous trees along with some mosses and lichens taiga MANY insects and birds migrate here rabbits,squirrels,bobcat and lynx taiga below tundra and is across Eurasia and North America Danby plans to continue his research as a part of the International Polar Year research effort.Tundra is a carbon sink but with global warming it is releasing carbon mining causes pollution->more melting more non polluting energy sources and alternate materials used The details of the study are published in the March issue of the Journal of Ecology. While in many places the idea of more trees is a good one, this Arctic takeover endangers species like caribou and sheep that thrive in the tundra, as well as the native people who depend on these species for their survival. It’s like it waited until conditions were right and then it decided to get up and run, not just walk.” “But what our data indicates is that there was an upslope surge of trees in response to warmer temperatures. “The conventional thinking on treeline dynamics has been that advances are very slow because conditions are so harsh at these high latitudes and altitudes,” said Ryan Danby of the University of Alberta.
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