Biomes: Climatic Savanna Grasslands

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

At the south of the country we can see another biome called temperate Rain forest. Here we would find a more typical rainforest. These types of rainforests are usually very humid places with lots of wildlife, exotic animals and plants.

Biomes are appropriate conditions for organizing the natural world because the organisms that live in them common constellations of adaptations, particularly the climate of each of the areas and the characteristic vegetation types that develops in these divisions. It should be understood that the climate is perhaps the most important in determining classes of individuals who may live in an area and the ways they should be amended to live under different conditions of temperature and precipitation and seasonal distribution of these factors element. Every place on Earth has its own climate, influenced by both macroclimate regions as the particular microclimate. The soils are very important because they are essential to determine the types of plants that will grow into a bioclimatic zone in partical, in addition, also as substrates for animals serve. In turn, the soils are heavily influenced by regional climate, as well as the geology of the bedrock. At the same time we have to keep in mind the diversity of plants like the flora just like the diversity of the fauna as well as the adaptation of both.

By comparing the topography, soil moisture levels, relative humidity, and wind speed of the upland Savanna and Bottomland forest we will be able to compare and contrast between these two vegetation zones. The data collected in the investigation will be used to test the hypothesis that the bottomland forest has a higher degree of shrub layer cover than the savanna. The higher level of shrubs in the bottomland forest might be attributed to the space available for shrub layer species. In addition, the data collected will confirm that the bottomland forest has a higher tree density than the

There are quite a few interesting facts I learned about grassland biomes. One would be that they are located

The Southwest Savanna is characterized by the hilltops, rivers and valleys and steep wooded slopes within the area. The average growing season in this part of southern Wisconsin is 153 days, making it the fourth longest growing season of the different landscapes within the state (Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources 2015). Of all the land in this section of Wisconsin, about 3.5% belongs to state, county, or municipal governments; this includes the state parks, natural areas, and wildlife areas. (Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources 2015). In the past, a majority of the forests in the Southern Savanna burned frequently. These forests depended on the fires to help maintain the area and return nutrients to the soil. In the mid-1800s,

Warming of the earth, rising sea levels, coastal flooding, receding glaciers, treeless planes and evergreen forests gave way to grasslands, prairies and deserts.

Most of the human impacts on grassland are caused by urbane development, agriculture and farming, hunting to extinction and global warming. Natural effects on the ecosystem are fires.

The African Savanna is located mostly in South Africa and its longitude is between 15 and 40 degrees West. The latitude of the Savanna is around 15 degrees North and 30 degrees South.

Upland prairie and oak savanna ecosystems are among the most imperiled vegetation types in North America. Upland prairies can be described as a type of dry grassland consisting of mostly native bunchgrass and annual and perennial diverse forbs. Oak savannas are specified as ecosystems with continuous grass or forb ground cover with a scattered distribution of open-growth oak trees and small groves of oaks. While the Willamette Valley was once dominated by these landscapes, upland prairie oak savanna systems currently exist in only 0.5% of their historic range. Chip Ross Park is a combination of the two and is considered an upland prairie oak savanna (Boyer 2010).

Cerrado is a tropical savanna of Brazil, particularly in the states of Goiás, Mato Grosso do Sul, Mato Grosso, Tocantins and Minas Gerais. It looks like an African savanna. It is as big as Western Europe and Cerrado has about 10,000 plants species, 10 bird species that you can always find in the Cerrado and 200 mammals species. The Cerrado is the second largest of Brazil’s major habitat types. The adaptation of the vegetation depends on the climate, if there is too much rain the place will probably flood and the plants will detach from the roots of the soil. If it is too hot there will probably dry but if it is a wet weather without too much rain the plants will grow giving good vegetation. Although the flooding is pretty bad sometimes something

In a savanna you could do many different things. One thing you can do is go on a wildlife safari and see really cool animals and plants. Another thing you could do in a savanna is go view tribal life. Also you could go rafting in a savanna and you could go to many different

Grasslands are lands that have a lot of grass! Grasslands have very few trees. This is because it does not rain enough to grow many trees. There are two kinds of grasslands: savannas and temperate grasslands.

The dry season begins with violent thunderstorms that create strong winds. These factors often promotes the spread of fires during this season, which causes most animals to migrate to another area; most of the plants begin to die, with the exception of the ones that have underground storage organs to help them survive; and the rivers dry up. However, when the rainy season arrives, many types of grasses grow in the savannas and they easily survive seasonal fires; rivers flow freely; lakes fill up again; and the animals that migrated will come back to the savanna.

, and is one of the driest places in the world. Although most deserts, such as the Sahara of the North Africa and the deserts of the southwestern U.S., Mexico, and Australia, has low latitudes. Most deserts have a considerable amount of specialized vegetation, as well as specialized vertebrate and invertebrate animals. There are relatively few large mammals in the desert because most are not capable of surviving without water and withstanding the heat. The dominant animals of the desert are the reptiles. Soils often have abundant nutrients because they need only water to become very productive and have little or no organic matter. Disturbances are