About the Boreal Forest The Boreal or Taiga Forest is simply beautiful and is an exciting place to enjoy your outdoor adventures. The Boreal forests is restricted to the Northern Hemisphere and is distributed between North America and Eurasia. Boreal Forests have long harsh winters and short mild summers. Frigid winters last from six to seven months because of arctic air that comes down from the tundra. Temperatures in the forests range from 30 to –65 degrees Fahrenheit; the amount of sunlight that the forests receive depends on what time of year it is.
BASIC FACTS and CHARACTERISTICS: The taiga represents 29 percent of the world’s forest cover. It contains many animals includes 85 species of mammals, 130 species of fish, 32,000 species of insects, 300 species of birds and 300 species of fish! Another amazing fact about the taiga is that the coldest temperature in the Northern hemisphere has been recorded there, which is -65 degrees Fahrenheit. Most of the taiga is covered by evergreens. The taiga, is prone to small wildfires because the trees have adapted to the climate and have thick bark which is protective against damaging wildfires.
Average Temperature Rain forests belong to the tropical wet climate group. The temperature in a rain forest rarely gets higher than 93 °F (34 °C) or drops below 68 °F (20 °C. Average Precipitation Average humidity is between 77 and 88%; rainfall is often more than 100 inches a year. There is usually a brief season of less rain. In monsoonal areas, there is a real dry season.
Lightning sets about 10,000 forest fires every year in the United States. 17. In one day a hurricane can release enough energy to supply all of the nation’s electrical needs for about six months. 18. The highest temperature ever recorded in the United States was 134 degrees F at Greenland Ranch in Death Valley, California.
In general, this valley has a dry and mild climate. Summers are dry and tend to be hot. Winters are cool, with occasional light snowfall. Maximum precipitation is in late fall and early winter. However, due to the Cascades, total precipitation quantities are small.
The Amur, or Far Eastern leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis) is one of the eight subspecies of leopard. It is only found in the Russian Far East and North East China and there are fewer than 40 individuals left in the wild, making it one of the world’s most endangered big cats. For this reason, it is listed as Critically Endangered by the IUCN. Amur leopards live in the temperate forests of Far Eastern Russia, experiencing harsh winters with extreme cold and deep snow, as well as hot summers. The species is adapted to a cool climate and has thick fur which grows up to 7.5 cm long in winter.
The average July maximum temperature is 26.5 °C. The average January minimum temperature is −14.8 °C. Winters can be very cold with minimum temperatures recorded as low as −36 °C. Summers are warm and humid in Ottawa. Daytime temperatures of 30 °C or higher are commonplace.
ABSTRACT Global warming causes many changes in weather patterns including greater temperature variability and more extreme temperatures. In this study we examined the damage and recovery in Aesculus glabra (Ohio buckeye) in Trelease Woods after a late frost in the spring of 2007, potentially caused by global warming. 1) If temperature and wind gradients directly affect the pattern of damage and recovery of Ohio buckeye, then as the distance of Ohio buckeye from the forest edge increases the percent leaf damage done by frost will decrease. 2) If the total leaf area available for photosynthesis in an Ohio buckeye directly affects its recovery from frost damage, then as percent leaf damage increases, recovery (based on percent canopy fullness,
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Introduction Tropical rainforest, temperate coniferous and deciduous woodland forests are the three main categories of forest type. Tropical rainforests are considered a much richer species that the other two, and temperate vegetation is one that grows fastest. The rainforest ecosystem is very weak and easily unbalanced, making this type of forest more “permanently destroyed” than the other two. The importance of tropical rainforests lies within the fact that they are the earth’s richest source of life as they play a vital part in the earth’s natural cycles of soil, water and air through the process of photosynthesis. In this case study we will be looking closely at the tropical rainforest in the Amazonia region of South America.