Biology 3484A/B Lecture Notes - Temperate Deciduous Forest, Tropical And Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests, Carolinian Forest
24 Dec 2012
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Therefore, the tropics has the most amount of solar energy per unit area and the least amount of seasonal variation in solar energy throughout the year. The total number of species per unit area increases from the poles towards the equator. Latitudinal gradient in species diversity: localities at lower latitudes have more species than localities at higher latitudes. Species richness is the total number of species in a given area. This is one of the most widely recognized patterns in biodiversity studies. Temperate deciduous forest (tdf): this is found here in london. Tdf is found here, in eastern us, in. The vegetation is dominated by broadleaf deciduous trees. They drop all their leaves in the fall. There are four distinct seasons in this biome. There is moderate annual average temperature and moderately high annual precipitation (90-150cm). Canada has the most species rich ecosystem of the places with temperate deciduous forest.
