Evaluate the evidence for human impacts on downstream flood risk in rural catchments in temperate regions. Before we can evaluate human impacts on flood risk we must first establish what is meant by temperate regions and also rural catchments. Temperate regions are generally regarded as lying between the Tropic of Cancer and the Arctic Circle or the Tropic of Capricorn and the Antarctic Circle and therefore rivers investigated in this essay will fall within these parameters. Rural catchments are
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Carnahan Biomes World Map Artic Tundra Taiga Plants Balsam Fir Arctic Willow Arctic Fox Animals American Black Bear Arctic Ocean Deep Sea Anemone Temperate Forest Plants Rhododendron ponticum Animals Penguins Bison Chaparral Freshwater Blue Oak Algae Plants Black-tailed Jackrabbit Animal s Hippopotamus Tropical Ocean Temperate Grassland Plants Sunflower Algae Animals Coyote Stonefish Tropical Forest Savanna Plants Baobab Bengal Bamboo Animals African Elephant Orangutan
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weather in an area across a span of time determined by the temperature and precipitation. • Latitude‚ wind patterns‚ geography and ocean currents are all factors that define climate. • Range from Tropical Desert‚ Tropical Rainforest‚ Temperate Desert‚ or Temperate Rainforest. GCMs – Computer models – study climate change video http://www.sandi.net/cms/lib/CA01001235/Centricity/Domain/7724/video/Global Warming. Part 4 - Consequences and Climate models.wmv http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eLKIWoIWlM
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Ecosystem Composition of the Valdivian Temperate Rainforest One of the world’s largest temperate rainforests is the Valdivian Temperate Rainforest (Wade et al. 2008). The Valdivian Temperate Rainforest ranges along the Pacific coasts of southern Chile and Argentina in South America‚ between 36 and 47° S latitude. This forest occurs in the temperate broadleaf and mixed forests biome (Perry et al. 2008). The broadleaf evergreen flowering trees that dominate the Valdivian are believed to have evolved
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Temperate forests correspond to forest concentrations formed in the northern and southern hemisphere‚ or in temperate regions. Main characteristics include: wide leaves‚ large and tall trees and non seasonal vegetation. Temperate forests can be further distinguished by weatherpatterns and geographical features that favor the predominance of certain kinds of trees. In temperate coniferous forests‚ evergreen coniferspredominate‚ while in temperate broadleaf and mixed forests‚ a more even distribution
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Temperate Deciduous Forest Biome Geographical Location The geographical locations of temperate deciduous forest biomes are in the eastern part of the United States and Canada‚ most of Europe‚ parts of China‚ and Japan. They are located between the polar regions and the tropics. Climate Conditions The weather of the temperate deciduous forest biome has four distinct changing seasons of winter‚ spring‚ summer‚ and fall. The seasons occur here because of the Earth’s tilt on its axis which allows
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to be both temperate and maritime‚ discuss. The British Isles located at 54◦N has historically had very unstable and hard to predict weather patterns due its location where five significantly different air masses converge and with influences from the Sub-polar Jet stream and North Atlantic Drift. Along with the additional complication of global warming potentially causing more extreme weather‚ meteorologists have been unable to agree on whether the UK has either a Maritime or Temperate climate. As
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out wetlands as a biome. We will look at 10 terrestrial biomes: 1. Tundra (Arctic and alpine) 2. Boreal forest or taiga 3. Temperate deciduous forest 4. Scrub forest called chaparral in California) 5. Tropical thorn scrub and woodland (Dry forest) 6. Savanna 7. Temperate grassland 8. Desert (cold and hot) 9. Tropical Rainforest 10. Temperate Rainforest Climatograph for various world biomes. BIOMES For each of the following TEN terrestrial biomes
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Characteristics There are nine biomes in the world they are: Mountains- Very cold lack of oxygen when altitude is higher and there are alot of glaziers Tundra- It is very cold not much diversity and there are two types of tundra. Arctic and Alpine. Temperate Forest- There are wide leaves and non-seasonal vegetation and mixed forests. Marine Island- Islands are cold at night and usually has good surf. Marine ecosystems has no oxygen and full of life. Desert- Barely any plants in the facinty‚ hard to
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Human Influences in a Food Web The temperate rainforest biome (specific to America) is most commonly recognised by its large and tall trees‚ non-seasonal vegetation‚ heavy rainfall and dense humidity. Temperatures rarely drop below freezing and irregularly exceed 27o C. Rainfall usually ranges from 127-165cm a year‚ with some rainforests occasionally receiving more [1]. At the first trophic level the producers are found‚ including: plants‚ flowers‚ seeds‚ nuts and fruit. The first order consumers
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