Temperate Deciduous Forest

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Temperate Deciduous Forest

• Just Beautiful!!

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Temperature

• Summers are mild, and average about 70F (21C),
  while winter temperatures are often well below
  freezing, 32 degrees F

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Precipitation

• The average yearly precipitation is 30 - 60
  inches (75 - 150 cm). This precipitation falls
  throughout the year, but in the winter it falls
  as snow.

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General Climate (cont.)

• 60-80 relative humidity helps to moderate
  temperature change from day to night
• Precipitation is distributed fairly evenly
  throughout the year, there are no rainy or dry
  seasons.
• There are four seasons
•  -Spring (moderately cool to warm),
  summer(Typically hotter temperatures),
  fall(moderately warm to cool), and winter(Cold
  season).

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Common Characteristics

• -Latitude ranges between 23 degrees North and 38
  degrees South.
• This biome occupies the eastern half of the
  United States and a large portion of Europe. It
  is characterized by
• -hardwood trees (e.g., beech, maple, oak,
  hickory) are deciduous that is, shed their
• leaves in the autumn.

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Common Characteristics(cont.)

• Hibernate and migrate
• -Deer, raccoons, black bear, and salamanders
  are characteristic inhabitants.
• -During the growing season, this biome can be
  quite productive in both natural and
  agricultural ecosystems.

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Cranberry!
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Adaptations

• Adaptation to fire
• Opportunist species, which are quick to colonize
  open or disturbed ground, are killed by fire, but
  their seeds are not. These species produce seeds
  in prodigious amounts. The seeds disperse widely
  and germinate rapidly. It is a strategy that
  allows species to occupy sites cleared by fire in
  the northern and western United States and to
  mature and produce seed before conifers grow
  taller and shade them.

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Tulip
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Tulip and Tornado
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Adaptations(cont.)

• Seasonal Adaptations
• These animals have unique adaptations suited for
  seasonal life. For example, some rodents and
  mammals store up fat, and then hibernate during
  cold winters. Some birds also migrate south for
  the winter so they can continue to live in a warm
  environment.

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Common Animals

• Mammals
• Brown Bears Ursus arctos
• Wild Boar Sus scrofa
• North American Beaver Castar Canadensis
• Birds
• Yellow Warbler Dendroica petechias
• Magnolia Warbler Dendroica magnolia
• Brown Thrasher Toxostoma rufum

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Common Plants

• White Oak Quercus alba
• American Beech Fagus grandifolia
• Myrtle Beech Nothofagus cunning hamii
• Bald Cypress Taxodium ascendens
• Scarlet Pimpernel Anagallis arvensis
• Marsh Marigold Caltha palustris

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What does deciduous mean?

• A tree or shrub shedding its leaves annually