Temperate Deciduous Forest

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Temperate Deciduous Forest

• By Haleigh Baker, Maddie Bishop, and Rachel Bush

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General Climate

• Weather systems usually travel from West to East,
  with the wind.
• Western Coasts receive winds/ weather that has
  crossed the ocean and Eastern Coasts receive
  winds/ weather that has crossed over land.
• Each month you can expect typical average
  temperatures and certain types if weather,
  temperature and humidity can change in a day,
  hour, or even a few minutes, though. Each day is
  hard to predict.

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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.)

• -The number of different species is far more
  limited than in the jungle.
• -Large stands dominated by a single species
  are common.
• -Deer, raccoons, 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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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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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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Animals(cont.)

• Amphibian
• Longtail salamander Eurycea longicaudata
• American Toad Bufo americanus
• Reptiles
• Black Rat Snake Elaphe obsoleta
• Insects
• Sassafras Borer Oberea ruficollis

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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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Bibliography

• Allaby, M. (2006). Temperate Forests. Chelsea
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