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Exploring Biomes: Understanding Vegetation, Climate, and Animal Interactions

This summary delves into various biomes, focusing on their unique characteristics like the chaparral, tropical forests, and tundras. You will learn about the ecological significance of vegetation and how it influences food webs and ecological niches. The interplay between climate and physical factors, alongside plant adaptations, shapes the distinct forms of trees and other flora. Additionally, the impact of animal populations on vegetation is examined, highlighting the synthesis of population genetics and ecology that informs our understanding of these vital ecosystems.

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Exploring Biomes: Understanding Vegetation, Climate, and Animal Interactions

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  1. BIO 110, Life Science Summer 2012

  2. Scrub • Called “chaparral” in the text • Dry summers • Different specieson differentcontinents

  3. Why isn’t Pomona a grassland? x

  4. Tropical forest • Rain forest and dry forest • Daily range oftemperaturegreater thanyearly

  5. Coniferous forest • High latitudes in the northand south • Tree shapes • Evergreens and evergreens

  6. Temperate broadleaf forest • Why deciduous? • Tree shape

  7. Savannah and grassland

  8. Tundra • Arctic/AntarcticTundra • Alpine Tundra • What about the tropics?

  9. So what about biomes? • Determined by climate, physical factors • Plant adaptations control the shape of the vegetation • The vegetation is the foundation of food webs and ecological niches, and thus controls the animals…but…. • Animals can cause changes in vegetation

  10. Populations Population biology: Synthesis of population genetics and population ecology

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