BIOL-2356EL Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Biome, Ecotone, Growing Season
4 Mar 2020
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Chapter 7 - biomes: from tropics to tundra. Sunlight is not equally distributed over the earth, this creates, together with geographic. Variations in temperature and precipitation leads to variation in vegetation and other factors, spatial and temporal variation in temperature and precipitation. organisms biomes. The climate of a region will determine which plant and animal species will inhabit it. Climate, plants and animals are interwoven to create the fabric of biomes. Other environmental factors such as soil conditions and disturbance regime can modify the. Biomes are latitude specific as temperature and air circulation patterns change. Temperature and precipitation control the distribution of biomes biome latitudinally. Air circulation around a rotating earth shows regular patterns: Coriolis makes low-pressure weather systems in the northern hemisphere turn. Paths of hurricanes, typhoons, and cyclones shoe general patterns due to coriolis. Due to coriolis, the weather in ontario usually comes from the south-west. Biome: a biogeographical region or formation characterized by specific life forms.
