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Temperate desert
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Temperate Desert
Characteristics
Climate, Locations, Flaura, and Fauna
Major
Characteristics
Climate
Very low precipitation: 5-20in of rain annually. Rarely falls in summer months
Hot summers, moderately cold winters
Climate
Locations
95% found in central Asia. Small portion found in North America around Western United States.
Locations
Flora & Fauna
Flora and Fauna
Flora: Lots of brush and shrubs. Too dry to sustain large trees.
Fauna: Few large mammals live in this province, but mule deer, mountain lion, bobcat, and badger occasionally venture into it. Sagebrush provides ideal habitat for pronghorn antelope and whitetail prairie dog. The most common species are such small mammals
Human Impacts
How does our actions hurt the Earth?
Human Impacts
Global Warming
Global Warming
- With global warming becoming more of a problem, it is very likely to affect temperate deserts.
- With the rising temperatures from global warming it will create a longer lasting drought which then would dry up water holes.
- With limited water supply for animals and plants and higher temperatures it can create wildfires that can spread and destroy the small living plants like shrubs.
Wildfires
Wildfires
- The most severe effects of fire occur under high temperatures with high fuel buildup and soil moisture that conducts heat downward.
- Global Warming has become a great threat to the temperate forests causing higher temperatures.
- When fire breaks out in temperate deserts it destroys the shrubs and small trees with fast growing grass unable to sustainably live.
Animals and their Adaptations
Animals
mammals: camel, ground squirrels, jackrabbits, kangaroo mice, woodrats, and kit foxes, bighorn sheep
Birds: burrowing owl, sage sparrow, sage thrasher, American kestrel, golden eagle, ferruginous hawk
Insect, reptiles: zebratail lizard, trantula hawk, cicadia, assasin bug.
Adaptations
Adaptations for reducing water loss include, specialized snout, waxy body coatings and efficient kidneys.
Nocturnal lifestyle for many animals
Slender bodies with long limbs which are better for shedding heat
Often live in burrows
Plantas and their adaptations
Plants and their Adaptations
Plants
Antelope bitterbrush, shadscale, fourwing saltbush, rubber rabbitbrush, spiny hopsage, horsebrush, and short-statured Gambel oak, ponderosa pine, subalpine fir and Engelmann spruce
Adaptations
Reduction of leaves; instead there is an increase in spines coming from plant in order to reduce water loss
Development of stem as a major photosynthetic structure
Water Storage in stem
Extensive underground root system
Defence systems