Boreal forest

The whitebark pine is a five needled conifer that occurs typically in high elevation, upper subalpine habitats ranging from timberline, where it may occur as stunted krummholz, down to closed subalpine forest (COSEWIC 2010). Whitebark pine is prevalent in the coastal mountain regions of British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and California, and in the Rocky Mountain ranges of Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and Nevada. This species is geographically isolated due its specific habitat qualities. Whitebark

What is a tardigrade, and how did it get the title of The World’s Most Resistant Creature? It all started in the year of 1773, scientist Johann August Ephraim Goeze discovered this micro-organism. Johann Ephraim was a German zoologist; he did his work with aquatic invertebrates, particularly insects, and worms, but in 1773 he described the tardigrade. He was the first person to describe the tardigrade and named it Kleiner Wasserbär meaning “little water bear”. The reason he named the tardigrade this

OK. Let’s continue our discussion about animal behavior by talking about decisions that animals face, complex ones. Animals, even insects, carry out what look like very complex decision making processes. The question is how. I mean no one really thinks that, say a bee goes through weighing the pros and cons of pollinating this flower or that flower. But then how do animals solve complex questions, questions that seem to require decision making. The answer we’ll propose of course is that their behavior

Tardigrades: The Toughest Animals on the Planet The Origin For many years scientists have thought that Tardigrades were extraterrestrial beings, but their evolution paths can be traced back to organisms on Earth, 520 million years ago. This means that the Tardigrade has survived all of the mass extinction events, that is not an easy feat. Your adaptations have to be godly, your structure would have to be ideal, you would have to almost immortal... Essential; For the Tardigrades Humans and most

currently endangered animals so are not seen as much as the leopards. Some other species that accompany the rest of the forest floor animals include mongoose, tapirs, Southern Cassowaries, okapis, armadillos, rainforest pigs and gorillas. Rainforest pigs include wild boars and their

you think of fire, you typically will think of destruction, but with the right fire regime in certain ecosystems it can actually help the area become more successful. Due to the degradation of the longleaf pine forests, prescribed burning has become a necessary factor to keep the forests successful (Lavoie et al., 2014). The biodiversity of the longleaf pin ecosystem depends on a lot of rainfall, porous, sandy soils, and a cycle of fires (Greenberg, 2002). Longleaf pine trees have a tolerance of

there,food web,where they are located, and my conclusion of what I learned. So in a Rainforest it is not just a normal piece of land it has some very unique features about it that make it seem like a rainforest. Most of the land is a warm and thick forest and has tons of plants and wildlife. And something that it doesn’t have then the others is very high rainfall,no frost, and lots of evergreen trees. In one year all the rain add up together is usually 8

The GIAHS in the Kunisaki Peninsula Usa area is a system where forestry and agricultural production are made possible and are sustained by the connected system of Sawtooth Oak forests and multiple interlinked irrigation ponds. The Sawtooth Oaks (or “Kunugi” in Japanese) provide a necessary source of nutrients to the growth of Shiitake mushrooms and produces the log wood cultivated Shiitake food product, in addition to stimulating the forest’s metabolism and recharging the water resources, as well

The Amazon rainforest it located in Brazil, it is the world's biggest rainforest with 6.9 million square kilometers. About three million people live in the Amazon rainforest. The Amazon rainforest could be taken over by all the people who are coming in and out of the rainforest with there animals, gold and trees. However if we preserve the rainforest it will last a lot longer then it will at the rate that it's going now. The Amazon rainforest has been described as the " lungs of our plant". The

With that in mind, if one want to live in world in there is nothing better than taking beautiful hike or going camping with the family. Those vacation days camping makes one forget about all the troubles in the world. So get this if as people we continues living the way we are all of that is going to be gone and our kids are not going to be able to experience that nature. Not even that but almost half of the biodiversity is diminished in numbers more animals are going extinct faster than previous