BIOL 2903 Lecture 6: BIOL 2903 – LECTURE 6
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Rivers provide a lot of opportunity for plants that would otherwise not grow in certain areas: more nutrients (calcium deposited, river rising and lowering moving deposits, more plants, more animals (trees such as shrubs) Coniferous woods the river allows to have these large trees that provide habitat for even more species. Raised beach ridges left by the trail of the rivers in which spruce trees grow which results in more habitat and species in several areas of the hbl. Red squirrels: eat the seeds in cones of spruce trees. This means that because these small animals are around, animals that eat them will be around as well: great gray owl, northern hawk owl, fisher, martan, wolverine northern and western boreal forest as well as hbl. In the hbl, there is one area that is a major exception to the regular environment of the hbl. It is an area that has major height.