Temperate Deciduous Forest
By; Kelsey and Markis
Botanist
• By: Kelsey
Special adaptation planets in the
deciduous forest
• Plants in the temperate deciduous forest adapt to
the biome in a variety of ways depending on the
type of plant. Most trees grow large leaves to
absorb the light during the growing season. The
bark of deciduous trees is stronger than tropical
trees to protect the inner core during seasonal
changes. Flowers and ferns and other smaller
plants, grow early in the spring with fast growing
leaves. This allows the plant to absorb a lot of
sunlight before the forest trees grow large leaves
and block the full strength of the sun.
American Beech
Carpet Moss
Guelder Rose
Lady Fern
Common Lime
Northern Arrowwood
Pecan
Shagbark Hickory
Tawny Milkcap Mushroom
White Birch
Wind
• Strong gust of wind blows a tree to the ground, the
tree then starts decompose putting the nutrients back
into the ground.
• Small wind gusts help plants like the white trilliums,
that depends on tiny gust of wind that spread pollen,
and fertilizing nearby plants.
• Unfornatly, wind moves tiny particles that are not good
for the soil like fungus, and spreads it around into the
forests, which is not good for the forest or that planet.
Water
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Water is a very important, because It helps the planet thrive in
the temperate deciduous forest.
• One way water helps the plants in the temperate deciduous forest
receives the water is when the rain falls down, and the water is
adsorbed in the plant.
• One way water doesn’t help the temperate deciduous forest is
when the temperature and chemical makeup of the water is right,
this can encourage the growth of organisms like algae that can
potentially throw off the existing balance of the ecosystem.
• Another way water does not help the temperate deciduous is when
large algae blooms can cover an area, blocking sunlight from plants
and animals below, making growth hard for many animals.
Sunlight
• All plants need sunlight to survive, and it is a major part in the
planet form in the deciduous forest.
• The bigger the better! That is the same with how the trees are
encouraged to grow in the deciduous forest are encouraged to
grow… big and tall! The taller the trees in the deciduous forest, the
more sunlight is available to the leafs of the canopy.
• Beneath these tall trees are a shorter layer of plants, often close to
the ground. These ferns and shrub like bushes tend to be varieties
that thrive in shady conditions, because they must to survive on
what sunlight makes it through the trees.
• Many of the herbivores in the forest are species that have adapted
to live on these smaller plants which grew with the help of the sun
Temperature
• In the temperate deciduous forest, warm spring
months help the plants and animals come back to
life, from the tough temperature that the winter
brings.
• As the temperature starts to drop, the trees and
animals of the deciduous forest lose their leaves,
and go into hibernation. This temperature drop is
very important for the animals as well as plants.
Some animals begin storing food for the winter
months while others eat until there bellies can
not hold anymore in preparation for hibernation.
Kelsey’s Credits
• http://leavesittous.weebly.com/biotic-andabiotic-factors.html
• http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/world_biome
s.htm
• http://alanmessianu.tripod.com/id10.html
• http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/deciduous_fo
rest.htm
• Picture links!(Got info and info from website!!)
:http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/deciduous_pl
ant_page.htm
Zoologist
• By: Markis
Abiotic Factors
• Abiotic factors help the animals in this biome in many
ways. Wind helps because it spreads pollen, fertilizing
plants which herbivores and omnivores eat. Water is
non-living and animals depend on it for survival. They
drink it in order to survive. Temperature is important
because warm spring months helps animals,
encouraging reproduction. The warm summers help
animals raise their young. When it gets colder, that’s a
clue for the animals to start storing food for winter.
Sunlight is important because it helps plants grow.
Many animals like herbivores and omnivores rely on
plants to live. Abiotic factors help the animals in this
biome in many ways.
Biotic Factors
• Biotic factors play a key role in the temperate
deciduous forest. Also it affects these animals in the
biome. Many living things are effected by pathogens in
the forest. Rabies is always a worry in the biome.
Parasites also affect the animals in the park negatively.
The most popular parasite in the biome are ticks. They
stick to the skin of the animal and suck its blood.
Animals in the park compete for food, water , and
mates. That affects where animals live and when they
come out of the home. All of the animals in the park
need energy by eating another organism. Biotic factors
play a very important role in the temperate deciduous
forest.
Herbivores
Chipmunk
Deer
Squirrel
Carnivores
Wolf
Owl
Bald Eagle
Omnivores
Bear
Opossum
Raccoon
Adaptations
• In the temperate deciduous forest animals have
to adapt to nature to live. Migration and
hibernation are some of the adaptations used by
the animals in this biome. Most birds migrate
places warmer when it gets cold. Also in the
winter bears hibernate in their den. Over time
they adapted by figuring out weather patterns in
their biome. Another adaption is that most
animals store when the weather gets cold. In the
temperate deciduous forest adaptations are key
to survival.
Food Chain
The producer in the food chain is the oak tree.
The primary consumers
are the squirrel, bug, birds and the skunk. The
secondary consumers are the
Raccoon, frog, and the eagle. The consumers
are the bear, fox, and the wolf.
Decomposer
• An example of a decomposer in this biome is
the fungi. Some fungi are beneficial to the
forest and some are bad to the forest. Some of
it is a parasite to trees by feeding on them.
Some fungi are bad because they are
poisonous which can harm the animals. Fungi
is a decomposer in the temperate deciduous
forest and it plays a very important role.
Animals
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http://leavesittous.weebly.com/biotic-and-abiotic-factors.html
https://sites.google.com/site/platttempecatedecidousforest/biotic-and-abiotic
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homepages.abdn.ac.uk
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