BIO120H1 Lecture 14: Bio-Lecture-14
36
BIO120H1 Full Course Notes
Verified Note
36 documents
Document Summary
General trends of terrestrial vegetation with climatic variables: Vegetation growth (primary productivity) increases with moisture and temperature. As things get warmer and wetter, we get taller forests (tropical rainforests are the tallest) Vegetation stature also increases characteristic types of vegetation = biomes. Collections of different plants and animals that constitute a particular response to a particular temperature/moisture regime. Seasonality is secondarily important crucial to how animals/plants survive. When you go north, you enter the coniferous/boreal forest biome. A graph of what types of forests are produced by different moistures and temperatures. Canada is located near the moderate precipitation and temperature areas. Latitude mostly determines major terrestrial biomes; learn classifications in struggle for existence. Additional climate patchiness overlaid on basic latitudinal belts: Temperature: land changes temperature more readily than water; maritime climates are moderate, continental climates are extreme; oceans provide thermal inertia. In spring, land heats up fast while water heats up slowly (due to the chemical properties of water molecules)
