Coniferous Forest Biome

by Aaron

Abiotic and BioticFactors

Abiotic Factorscold temperature, snow, frozen/unfrozen water, little sunlight, acid soil, rocks

Biotic Factorsbird: eagle, crow, hawk, vulture, woodpecker, wren, owlbear: giant panda, brown bear, black bearinvertebrate: beetle, fly, ladybug, wormsrodents: chipmunk, mouseamphibian: frog, newt

Where Coniferous Forests are Found

Coniferous forests are in the northern part of North America, Europe and Asia. The some parts of the left border of North America has coniferous forests too.

equator

the orange parts are the coniferous forests

Producersevergreen trees: they have tough needles to help it save the tree from being dry.ferns: they reproduce oftenlylarch trees: the larch tree has thick bark which can withstand certain weathers and doesn't get easily burnedpoison oak: they are vines which climb up redwoods

Consumers/Adaptationsmigrate: when an animal goes to a warmer place for example birds migrate when it’s winter

hibernate: when an animal goes to sleep over the winter like bears

thick fur: some animals have thick fur which keeps them warm through winter like a wolf or a bobcat

camouflage: blend with the surrounding for example the bobcat can turn white in winter and brown in summer

Food Web

tertiary consumers

secondary consumers

primary consumers

producers

decomposer

Conservation Issue: Air Pollution Air pollution is a problem in the coniferous forest and it starts out with

people making pollution like in factories, motors, and then the pollution destroys the ozone layer which creates the sun to heat the earth and create global warming. The evergreen trees will die because they weren't adopted to the heat. Animals with thick fur will die without having time to adapt to the warm environment and the food web will fall apart.

SourcesBoth

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx

http://t.answers.com/answers/#!/entry/what-do-animals-eat-in-a-coniferus-forest,511069c8d7fc7b567017d183/2

http://ths.sps.lane.edu/biomes/coniferous4/coniferous4b.html

http://www.nhptv.org/natureworks/lynx.htm

http://projectbeak.org/habitats/coniferous_birds.htm

Food Webhttp://www.world-builders.org/lessons/less/biomes/conifers/conifweb.html

Presentation

http://wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/ecoregions/about/habitat_types/habitats/coniferous_forests/

http://t.answers.com/answers/#!/entry/is-redwood-an-evergreen-tree,501c2dd07af68a84dc5e4cd2/2

http://www.skyenimals.com/browse_habitat.cgi?habitat=coniferous_forest

http://www.biggamehunt.net/forum/brown-bear-vs-grizzly-whats-difference

http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/GiantPandas/PandaFacts/

http://www.wvdnr.gov/wildlife/magazine/archive/04Winter/winter_wonder.shtm

http://inchinapinch.com/hab_pgs/terres/coniferous/plants.htm

http://www.2020site.org/trees/larch.html

Sourcespresentationhttp://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/msese/earthsysflr/taigaa.html

https://www.windows2universe.org/milagro/effects/wildlife_forests.html

http://njitvector.com/2013/hold-your-breath-air-pollution-is-the-leading-cause-of-cancer/

http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/carolina_wren/id

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt

http://www.250news.com/blog/view/14254/12/larch+tree+provides+seasonal+variety

http://www.sfrc.ufl.edu/extension/4h/plants/Poison-oak/