Biome Grassland Research Paper

The first biome I would like to talk about is the grassland biome. There are two kinds of grassland biomes; tropic and temperate grasslands. West Virginia is part of the temperate grassland. Sometimes, the temperature can reach up to 100 degrees. In the winter, the temperatures are very cold. Grassland biomes receive between 10 to 30 inches of rain.

The corresponding biome would be the Taiga biome.In the winter the average air temperature is warmer than it is for tundra which lies north of the taiga. The taiga climate has an average annual rainfall of 12 - 33 inches (30 - 84 cm). Most of it falls in the summer as rain. The corresponding biome would be the Taiga biome.

The grasslands can have very different climates than other places and there can also be just one climate throughout the year.The grasslands have really hot summers and really cold

This week's weather change could be a boon to duck hunters, as a freeze up north should drive some new birds down into the Grasslands. Last Saturday, my son Bill and a friend had a pretty good shoot at the Santa Cruz Club south of Los Banos. They had a good early morning flight, mostly Greenwing Teal and Northern shovelers. They ended up with 11 ducks, including one Canvasback, before the flight ended about 10:30 a.m. To make it more challenging, they were both shooting 20 gauge shotguns. My son is still shooting the same Remington Model 58 that I gave him in 1970, when he was 13 years old. The public shooting areas showed some increase in averages last Saturday in the Sacramento Valley with Delevan and Sacramento Refuges being the best. In the Los Banos Complex, Merced and Los Banos units picked up to around two birds per hunter.

Only covering about 5 percent of Canada, this Ecozone occupies a semi-circular area that has its base on the Canada-U.S. border and arc from the western edge of Alberta to the eastern edge of Manitoba. The major landform of the Prairie Ecozone is much flatter than Northern Arctic due to its rolling plains. Some local areas can be hummocky and potholed, providing depressions for the establishment of wetlands, ponds and small lakes. On the other hand, in terms of vegetation, Prairie Ecozone is considerably lusher than Northern Arctic that the short-grass prairies in the south merge into mixed-grass and the tall-grass areas. As the moisture patterns improve northwards, grasslands expand. Though, as almost 95 percent of the Prairie Ecozone have been covert into farmland, the natural vegetation is generally dominated by spear grass, wheat grass, and blue grama grass. The northern edge of this Ecozone is dotted with groves of trembling aspen and balsam poplar. Sagebrush is abundant but deciduous and coniferous trees are largely absent. Moreover, in terms of wildlife, the Prairie Ecozone is richer than Northern Arctic. Plain bison, which were once plentiful, are now confined to a few restricted areas in national parks. Other characteristic mammals, including the mule and white-tailed deer, elk, coyote, pronghorn antelope, and white-tailed jackrabbit, would inhibit in lands away from urban

Big bluestem grass (Turkey food) adapted to growing into growing in dense stands allows for less competition of sunlight generally, the key to survival are thick deep roots. Anchor into the soil to prevent being blown away in the wind. Animals in short grasses. The prairie dogs essentially are the squirrel of the prairies normally, squirrels inhabit trees, but in the prairies there aren't any trees. Therefore they burrow underground. Adapted to creating guard systems some stay outside the burrow to watch for predators while others mate and connect burrows . Adapted to semi-arid, windy environment with few trees or shrubs. Many Of the animals are thankful for the rodent populations and steal their burrows to survive the freezing to the sweltering hot temperatures. They can also withstand a great range in temperature from well below freezing in the winter to sweltering heat in the

The tallgrass prairie has been reduced to less than one-tenth of one percent (0.1%) of the original area that it used to cover. Because of the small percentage of remaining area of the tallgrass prairie, ecologists might feel that the tallgrass parries is the most endangered ecosystem. It is believed to have covered around 25 million acres in Minnesota and Iowa at one point, but now there is less than 300,000 acres scattered around Minnesota and Iowa. The remaining acres of tallgrass prairie is scattered in small areas that do not have much wildlife value. Since the area is so scattered, many animals that live in these tallgrass prairies are having troubles finding places to live because they don’t want to make their nest on the edge for fear

Historically, prairies covered over one-hundred and seventy million acres of North America and stretched from the Rocky Mountains to the east side of the Mississippi; and from Saskatchewan, south to Texas. It was once the continent’s largest continuous ecosystem, supporting an enormous quantity of plants and animals. Prairies began appearing in the mid-section of our continent eight- to ten-thousand years ago and have developed into one of the most complex and diverse ecosystems in the world, surpassed only by Brazil’s rainforest: from the extreme heat and drought in August to the bitter cold winters locked in frigid winds and ice.

Location of major natural system: Dry Prairies are known to be located predominantly in three major areas north and west of Lake Okeechobee, in south-central Florida (Florida Natural Areas Inventory, n.d.c).

Did you know the Taiga is the largest biome in the world? In this biome most of the tree life is conifers. The taiga has a specific climate, appearance, producers, and consumers

The first major biome in the world is tundra biome. One fifth of the earth surface is covered by this type of biome. It is located on top of the world which is near the North pole. This biome can be found in the northernmost countries on the globe such as Russia, Finland, Canada and Greenland. With formation about 10 000 years ago, tundra is called the world’s youngest biome (Kaplan, 1996). Tundra biome is the coldest and harshest of all biomes on earth. The word ‘tundra’ is originated from a Finnish word, tunturia which means treeless plain that exactly describing this biome (Pullen, 2004). This is because the distinctive characteristics of this biome is its landscape which is a vast and treeless land unlike a regular forest in other biomes.

The savanna is located in africa. The savanna biome has a wet and dry climate. The savanna biome is mostly located near the equator the largest savanna is located in africa. Nearly half of the continent is covered with savanna grasslands.

Grasslands are massive areas covered in wild grasses. There are two main types of grasslands: the Savanna and the Temperate Grasslands. Savanna grasslands take up more than one third of Africa’s land. Savanna grasslands are also found in India, South America and Australia. Temperate grasslands can be found in South Africa, Argentina and Central North America. If the grassland is prevented to develop into a forest because of climatic conditions, then it is called a ‘climatic savanna’. If their characteristics are kept by soils then its is called a ‘edaphic savanna’. Sometimes, large animals such as elephants, can constantly disturb the young trees from growing. Human causes, such as farming and bush fires can also prevent grasslands from developing

Deserts make up 20% of the Earths surface. Desert biomes come in four major forms. The hot & dry, semi arid, coastal and cold deserts. Deserts are hot and dry because of little vegetation cover, little cloud cover and low atmospheric pressure. The humidity level is very low and there is very little rain each year (about 500mm per year). The soil is shallow and rocky, as a result of very little weathering and supports only a few plant types. The soil has very low organic matter and has a very low salt content. Plants that grow here include the cactus and short shrubs, which have the ability to conserve water. Plants have less leaves, so they use their stems for photosynthesis. The animals tend to burrow during the day to avoid the scorching

Fire! Most people are alarmed with that word. But fire is a major factor in allowing the grasslands to exist. Native Americans used to burn prairies to get rid of all of the dead grass and allow the new grass to grow for the bison to eat. Burning off grasslands in the spring permits the grass to grow without being restricted by the old, dead grass. Fire also kills the parasites and flies that bother the cattle in the summer. Invasive cedar trees overtake grasses and starve out good native grasses. Other methods can be used to combat them but fire is the quickest and most efficient. While pasture burning may seem harmful to some, it’s an essential way to keep our grasslands and prairies in working order.