Producers Adaptions
- Trees adapt to the lack of water during the dry season by shedding their leaves and developing a way to photosynthesis without leaves but with barks. An example would be Bursera simaruba in Costa Rica.
- Also, as an adaptation to short wet seasons, trees developed waxy texture for their leaves. Example would be the trees in monsoonal areas, like India.
http://www.marietta.edu/~biol/biomes/tropdry.htm
http://www.rgbstock.com/bigphoto/2dyVh0X/Glossy+Leaf
Maps of Location
Climate and General Info
Questions
http://www.marietta.edu/~biol/biomes/tropdry.htm
http://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=tropical+seasonal+forest+biome+map&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&docid=oOyOuVPOgmj-8M&tbnid=Bh6t8QxQ1UBz_M:&ved=0CAcQjRw&url=https%3A%2F%2Fbiomee.wikispaces.com%2FTropical%2BRainforest%2BBiome&ei=fv8WVJCFEcufyASErYLYBQ&bvm=bv.75097201,d.aWw&psig=AFQjCNGEsc7FndP9T3pbCeZB6VM4Tro5JQ&ust=1410879706419929
- Forests are found in many coastal countries.
- The usual amount of rainfall is 50 to 260 inches of water each year.
- Temperatures - no higher than 93*F no lower than 68*F (34*c and 20*c).
http://www.worldbiomes.com/biomes_forest2.htm
http://thebirdzoo.com/Tropical%20Dry%20Forest.htm
1. Based on the geological location of the Tropical Seasonal Forests, what would cause the climate to be warm?
2. What climate changes cause the organisms living in the forests to develop adaptations?
3. List and explain 2 adaptations abiotic organisms have created to deal with changes in the forest’s climate?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/habitats/Tropical_and_subtropical_dry_broadleaf_forests
Animals/Consumers Adaptations
Challenges in Tropical Seasonal Forest
Citations
- Consumers like frogs and insects estivate during the dry seasons to adapt into the drought-like conditions in the dry seasons. For example, South American Ornate Horned frogs.
- Humans, who are also consumers, adapt to the floodings during the wet seasons by building their houses in higher elevation. For example would be people in Bangladesh.
- The biggest challenges the organisms face in the tropical seasonal forests are the exteme decrease in the precipitation and drought-like conditions in dry seasons.
- However short period of wet season comes comes too, and it comes with big precipitation, which also poses a problem.
- In contrast, the dry seasons are very dry like drought, and they are very long.
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- "Dry Forest." GDFCF. Guanacaste Dry Forest Conservation Fund, n.d. Web. 15 Sept. 2014.
- Holzman, Barbara A. Tropical Forest Biomes. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2008. Print.
- "Tropical Dry Forest." · University of Puget Sound. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Sept. 2014.
- "Natural Vegetation ( Comparison between Tropical Monsoon and Coniferous Forest)." Think like an Ess Too. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Sept. 2014.
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http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/dpu/adaptation_to_climate_change_in_cities
http://www.studyblue.com/notes/note/n/testpractical-i/deck/5513259
"CEOP_AP Chao Phraya Reference Site Lampang Station." CEOP_AP Chao Phraya Reference Site Lampang Station. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Sept. 2014.
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Tropical Seasonal Forest Biomes
Tori Woods & Unsun Lee