BIOL 2903 Lecture Notes - Canadian Shield, Chorus Frog, Hudsonian Godwit
10 Feb 2014
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Natural history of ontario, lecture 1- b 1. Basically it"s the part if the canadian shield that extends down between the great lakes / st-lawrence lowland that separates the lowland into northern and southern. The tundra rises 400 per 100 year bcz: of the isostatic rebound. The tundra is the last place wind being glaciated. Half of canada"s rivers drain/flows into hudson bay like the winisk river. Any where below if the height of land the river the great lakes into and the st. lawrence, and above river flow north into hudson ( its tie to the arctic. Freshwater rivers drain through the tundra into husdon bay so freshwater reside from the tundra to hudson bay. Its has the largest number of thermokarst lakes in the world. In its freshwater ponds, lakes resides: - Very few herps: like the wood frog, boreal chorus frog. Natural history of ontario, lecture 1- b 2.
