PCB 4043 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Tropical Rainforest, Zooplankton, Phytoplankton
18 May 2016
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Moist seasonally warm/cool or cool/cold on fertile soils or warm, seasonally wet/dry. Moist, seasonally warm/cool or cool/cold on infertile soils. Seasonally cold/cool o: human activities influence the distribution of biomes. Land use change: conversion of land to agriculture, logging, resource extraction, urban development. The potential and actual distribution of biomes are markedly different: there are nine major terrestrial biomes. Climate diagrams show the characteristic seasonal patterns of temperature and precipitation at a representative location. Tropical deforestation is a pretty serious problem. Pretty constant temperature, highly variable precipitation that falls below pet line over the summer. Low constant rainfall with a variable (but high) temperature- precipitation always below pet line. Variable (but mostly low) temperatures with highly variable precipitation. Temperatures below zero for january and february. Temperature dips below zero for january and february. Precipitation does not dip below pet line, but the two get pretty close in the summer.
