Temperate Rainforest

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Temperate Rainforest

• By Anthony R.
• A.P. Environmental Science Academy
• Teatown Lake Reservation

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Climate

• Mid Latitudes.
• 1000- 1200 mm of Rain per year average some
  receive more.
• Winter temperatures rarely drop below freezing.
• Summer Temperatures rarely exceed 80 degrees.

• Mild wet winters and cool, foggy and clouded
  summers.

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Temperate Rainforest Around the World
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Flora

• The flora is mostly coniferous trees.
• Other plant life includes Mosses and Linches
• Fir Tree Abies balsamea the Balsam Fir is used
  as Christmas trees, cold remedy, glue and paper.
  

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Flora Continued

• Hemlock Tsuga heterophylla State tree of
  Washington, needles can be used to make teas,
  Bark can be eaten.

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Flora Continued

• Black Spruce Picea mariana used for paper making
  and is the Provincial tree of Newfoundland

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Flora Continued

• Big Leaf Maple Acer macrophyllum is commonly
  found in west coast forests, can be used to make
  maple syrup and the largest recorded Big Leaf
  Maple was 101 feet tall with a trunk diameter of
  11 feet and 11 inches

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Fauna

• The Fauna includes various insects, Birds and
  mammals.
• The Banana Slug Ariolimax columbianus they are
  detritivores, spread seed and spores as they
  move.

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Fauna Continued

• The Black Tailed Deer Odocoileus hemionus also
  known as the mule deer, feed from conifers during
  the winter months.
• Different from the White Tail Deer, have black
  spot on tail and antlers grow differently.

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Fauna Continued

• The Blue Grouse Dendragapus obscurus
• Their breeding habitat is the edges of conifer
  and mixed forests in mountainous regions of North
  America

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Fauna Continued

• The Black Bear Ursus americanus
• Eat carrion and insects, berries, fruits along
  with small rodents and deer, elk and moose
  calves.

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Temperate Rainforest Food Web
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Instrumental values

• One Instrumental value is the Biodiversity of
  organisms.
• Another Instrumental value is its aesthetic
  value.
• The Educational value of the Temperate Rainforest

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Limiting Factor

• Limiting Factors of the Biome include
• Population size, availability of food, predation
  pressure, disease, Natural disasters, hunting,
  human activity,

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Locus of Concern

• Logging occurs in the Temperate Rainforest
• Loss of habitat and loss of biodiversity
• Hunting of Black Tailed Deer
• Humans that live in the area of the biome have
  distanced them selves from the biome.

• Some human activity does occur, logging and
  hunting.

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Work Cited

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