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Tropical Dry Forest

Bengal Tiger

The Bengal Tiger is a carnivore.

Predator Prey #3

The Mexican Red Knee Tarantula eats small insects, frogs, and mammals, like mice.

Giraffe

Competition

Giraffes are herbivores.

Predator Prey #2

All trees in the tropical dry forests are competing for sunlight with each other an for nutrients with all other plants. Also, squirrels and other rodents compete for nuts and other sources of food that they need.

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The Timor Python eats bugs, small birds and small mammals such as rats.

Sycamore Tree

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Parasitism

Bibliography

Sycamore Lace bugs are parasites that feed off of Sycamore trees. They will eventually kill the tree by doing this.

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Predator Prey #1

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Tigers that live in the tropical dry forest often prey on deer.

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White Rhino

The White Rhino is a herbivore.

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Conservation Efforts

Human Impact

Food Web

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Three impacts that humans have had on tropical dry forests are:

-Global Climate Change

-Deforestation

- Reduction in Species Diversity

Humans have caused global climate change by partaking in air pollution which causes the greenhouse effect, heating the planet more than usual and upsetting natural cycles due to the odd changes in climate and plants inability to adapt quickly.

Humans have caused deforestation by cutting down trees and using them as building materials or using the land for building, this leads to a decrease in habitats for plants and animals because of the usage and depletion of resources in the land.

Human participation in deforestation and pollution has led to the availability of certain habitats being severely lessened. The species that live in these habitats have also decreased due to lack of space, this causes a reduction in species diversity because of the decrease in these specie's populations.

Abiotic Factors in the Ecosystem

Several efforts have been made to conserve the resources and wildlife in Tropical Dry Forests, including:

Ecotourism- A way for developing countries to produce revenue without having to deteriorate resources, habitats, and wildlife.

Species Action Plans- Plans that involve the protection of specific species through law, captive breeding and sometimes habitat preservation.

Sustained Yield Forestry- The acts of selective logging and rotational harvesting and planting of wood.

Pesticide Laws- Laws against particularly bad pesticides have been enacted in many Tropical Dry Forest areas, these have sufficiently helped with bioaccumilation problems.

Energy Pyramid

-The temperature is high all year round. The average temperature is around 25 degrees Celsius.

-Alternating wet and dry seasons. The average rainfall range is 50-300mm.

-Soil is thin and nutrient poor.

-Usually situated in tropical areas near the equator.

-Sunlight reaches the top of the forest very well but it cannot breech the trees, so the bottom of the forest gets barley any sunlight.

-Often has a higher Ph and low bulky density.

Kouprey

The Kouprey is a herbivore.

Mexican Red-Knee Tarantula

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Carbon Cycle

Nitrogen Cycle

Carbon Cycle

Nitrogen Cycle

The carbon cycle in Tropical dry forests moves through the living and non-living environment, it is taken in through the photosynthesis of plants and cycled back into the atmosphere by plant and animal respiration and the decomposition of carbon in plant and animal tissues. Over many years human's burning of fossil fuels has upset the cycle by expending the global carbon budget with the release of carbon that these actions cause.

Nitrogen is extremely important to living things because it is a major component in amino acids which are the building blocks of all proteins. It is cycled through biotic and abiotic environments by bacteria fixing atmospheric nitrogen and turning ammonia into nitrates. The Nitrogen fixing bacteria live in the root nodules of legumes.

precipitation

respiration

Photosynthesis

The Mexican Red-Knee Tarantula is a carnivore.

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Water Cycle

Water cycle

In tropical dry forests the water cycle mainly takes place through plants and animals. Respiration of plants and animals releases water into the atmosphere by breaking down sugars to get energy. Photosynthesis takes in water along with other materials and this is part of what moves water from the atmosphere down to the earth apart from precipitation.

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Timor python

The Timor python is a carnivore.

Acacia Tree

Grasses

Sycamore Lace Bugs

Sycamore Tree

Grasses are producers

The Acacia Tree is a producer.

Sycamore Lace Bugs are herbivores

The Sycamore Tree is a producer

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