Korean Deciduous Forest Biome
BY Mason Papendick and Leena Jones
The Ecosystem we researched was the deciduous forest. It is part of the land biome. The deciduous forest climate is moist because it receives about 75 to 105 cm of rain per year. The landscape is rugged. The geographical location is east of America, in the country of central Korea. The Central Korean Deciduous Forest was our focus ecosystem.
The different populations within our biome are the Bald Eagle, Black bear, Coyote, Duckbill Platypus, Eastern Chipmunk, European Red Squirrel, Fat Dormouse, Least Weasel, and White tailed Deer. Some of the abiotic factors are rocks and water. Some biotic factors are the animals and plants.
The specific species we researched was the White Tailed Deer. The deciduous forest is a perfect habitat for the White Tailed Deer because the landscape ranges from flat land to the wooded, and there is an abundance of plants. Deer are herbivores. They are interdependent on the living and non-living organisms within the deciduous forest by eating plants and berries and giving it back to the environment.
The man made disaster that faces the deciduous is the building of houses on the land that the animals need to survive. Valuable species of plants are harvested or destroyed to allow for the new houses. There are not enough resources available and competition forces the animals that once lived there to move and find a new habitat to live in.
They are connected because if the carnivores eat the herbivores and the herbivores eat the producers so than the carnivores are really eating plants.
That describes the Korean deciduous forest.
Works Cited:
http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/deciduous_forest.htm
http://ths.sps.lane.edu/biomes/deciduous3/deciduous3.html#Climate
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