what are the threats of a temperate rainforest?
Threats to the biome:
- Timber cutting is the number one threat to the biome. Timbering can be very difficult, which causes erosion in the soil. The pollution it carries are a threat to near shore organisms.
- Acid rain causes plants to produce less seeds. It also lowers the ability for trees to resist deseases.
- Non native plants and animals are a threat as well. It messes up the balance of the ecosystem. They fight for space and food in the forest, threatening the native species.
- Timber cutting is the number one threat to the biome. Timbering can be very difficult, which causes erosion in the soil. The pollution it carries are a threat to near shore organisms.
- Acid rain causes plants to produce less seeds. It also lowers the ability for trees to resist deseases.
- Non native plants and animals are a threat as well. It messes up the balance of the ecosystem. They fight for space and food in the forest, threatening the native species.
Interesting facts:
-Canopy and understory blocks 70 percent of sunlight, so most species don't need much sunlight to grow. Instead they grow with shade
-Some scientists believe that there may be millions of plants and insect species in temperate rainforests that have not yet been discovered.
-The temperate rainforests that are the largest are located in North America.
-Temperate rainforests receive from sixty to two hundred inches (1,500 to 5,000 millimeters) of rain annually
- when it is neither summer nor winter, the weather is always quite cool.
-Plants grow extremely high in the temperate rainforest due to lots of rain.
-You can find the tallest trees in the world in temperate rainforests like the Coastal Redwood trees which can grow up to 106.68 meters.
-Canopy and understory blocks 70 percent of sunlight, so most species don't need much sunlight to grow. Instead they grow with shade
-Some scientists believe that there may be millions of plants and insect species in temperate rainforests that have not yet been discovered.
-The temperate rainforests that are the largest are located in North America.
-Temperate rainforests receive from sixty to two hundred inches (1,500 to 5,000 millimeters) of rain annually
- when it is neither summer nor winter, the weather is always quite cool.
-Plants grow extremely high in the temperate rainforest due to lots of rain.
-You can find the tallest trees in the world in temperate rainforests like the Coastal Redwood trees which can grow up to 106.68 meters.