BIOL-2356EL Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Ecotone, Northern Hemisphere, Tropical Rainforest
6 Oct 2018
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Sunlight is not equally distributed over the world. This creates, together with geographical factors, spatial and temporal variation in temperature and precipitation. Variation in temperature and precipitation leads to variation in vegetation and other organisms: biomes, e. g. The climate of a region will determine which plant species will grow there, and what animals will inhabit it. Climate, plants and animals interwoven to create the fabric of a biome. Other environmental factors, such as soil conditions or disturbance regime can modify the biome. All interwoven, have to be adapted to all season and things such as fires. Latitude: temperature and air circulation patterns, and hence precipitation patterns. Air circulation around a rotating earth shows regular patterns: patterns in precipitation. Coriolis: makes weather systems in the northern hemisphere to turn counter clockwise. Paths of hurricanes, typhons, cyclones, show general patterns due to coriolis. Air is always moving and in extreme causes we have things such as hurricanes.
