ANTH 316 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Snowy Owl, Snow Goose, Prunus Serotina
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Arctic, mountains, boreal forest, temperate forests, night in tropical, semitropical, and desert areas. See mosses, lichen, bushes in alpine tundras. Tundra herbivores: caribous, giant hares, giant rodents. Tundra birds: snow goose, snowy owl, partigans. Lots of conifers, aspen, cottonwood, birches (all green and yellow in autumn) Boreal forest herbivores: red deer, moose, black bears, woodchucks, Boreal forest carnivores: lynx, red fox, gray wolf, wolverine, martens and. Boreal forest birds: nuthatch, juncos, sparrows, warblers. Deciduous forests, eastern mix forest, oak and hickory forests, beech and maple forests, green hawthorn, black cherry, witch hazel (colonizing species) Beech nuts are a staple resource in some populations, or at least they were such as the hotnoshonee (iroquois) Developmental adaptations are a body growing up in chronic cold conditions will be stunted and thus adaptation over the course of a single life time, calories pushed towards keeping warm. Short term adaptations (acclimatization), short term adjustments resulting in a change in environment.
