Temperate Rainforest

By: Anthony R.

A.P. Environmental Science Academy

Teatown Lake Reservation

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.

Temperate Rainforest Around the World

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.

Flora Continued

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

Flora Continued

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

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

Fauna

• The Fauna includes various insects, Birds and mammals.

• The Banana Slug: Ariolimax columbianus they are detritivores, spread seed and spores as they move.

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.

Fauna Continued

• The Blue Grouse: Dendragapus obscurus

• Their breeding habitat is the edges of conifer and mixed forests in mountainous regions of North America

Fauna Continued

• The Black Bear: Ursus americanus

• Eat carrion and insects, berries, fruits along with small rodents and deer, elk and moose calves.

Temperate Rainforest Food Web

Instrumental values

• One Instrumental value is the Biodiversity of organisms.

• Another Instrumental value is its aesthetic value.

• The Educational value of the Temperate Rainforest

Limiting Factor

• Limiting Factors of the Biome include:

• Population size, availability of food, predation pressure, disease, Natural disasters, hunting, human activity,

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.

Work Cited• http://www.scsc.k12.ar.us/2001Outwest/PacificNaturalHistory/Projects/LachowskyR/Default.htm• http://www.dpi.vic.gov.au/DPI/Vro/wgregn.nsf/0d08cd6930912d1e4a2567d2002579cb/

edf0867075254e23ca2574ef001a3ce6/$FILE/EVC%2031%20%20%20Cool%20Temperate%20Rainforest.pdf

• http://www.marietta.edu/~biol/biomes/temprain.htm• http://www.bigskycachers.com/Photos/blue%20grouse.jpg• http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.nextbighunt.com/wp-content/uploads/

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