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Check out this website about the Coniferous Forest Lifezone!!

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Check out this website about the Coniferous Forest Lifezone!!

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Temperate evergreen forests are found predominantly in areas with warm summers and cool winters, and vary enormously in their kinds of plant life. In some, needleleaf trees dominate, while others are home primarily to broadleaf evergreen trees or a mix of both tree types.

Temperate evergreen forests are common in the coastal areas of regions that have mild winters and heavy rainfall, or inland in drier climates or montane areas. Many species of trees inhabit these forests including pine, cedar, fir, and redwood.

The understory also contains a wide variety of herbaceous and shrub species. Temperate conifer forests sustain the highest levels of biomass in any terrestrial ecosystem and are notable for trees of massive proportions in temperate rainforest regions.

Structurally, these forests are rather simple, consisting of 2 layers generally: an overstory and understory. However, some forests may support a layer of shrubs. Pine forests support an herbaceous groundlayer that may be dominated by grasses and forbs that lend themselves to ecologically important wildfires. In contrast, the moist conditions found in temperate rain forests favor the dominance by ferns and some forbs.

Temperate rain forests only occur in 7 regions around the world - the Pacific Northwest, the Validivian forests of southwestern South America, the rain forests of New Zealand and Tasmania, the Northeastern Atlantic (small, isolated pockets in Ireland, Scotland, and Iceland), southwestern Japan, and those of the eastern Black Sea.

Forest communities dominated by huge trees (e.g., giant sequoia, Sequoiadendron gigantea; redwood, Sequoia sempervirens; mountain ash, Eucalyptus regnans), an unusual ecological phenomena, occur in western North America, southwestern South America, as well as in the Australasian region in such areas as southeastern Australia and northern New Zealand.

The Klamath-Siskiyou ecoregion of western North America harbors diverse and unusual assemblages and displays notable endemism for a number of plant and animal taxa.

Biodiversity Patterns
Most tree species and larger vertebrates have relatively widespread distributions; considerable local endemism and beta diversity occurs in some ecoregions in invertebrates, understory plants, and lichens, particularly in rain forests or on unusual soils; may have extremely diverse invertebrate faunas or herbaceous floras; altitudinal specialization occurs but is less pronounced than in the tropics.

Minimum Requirements
Disturbance regimes such as fire, windthrow, and epizootics can vary considerably within this major habitat type, but the extremes are typically of sufficient size and frequency as to make small patches of natural forest have only limited conservation value; many species highly specialized on late-successional forests; larger carnivores very wide-ranging with large home ranges; some species track resources that vary widely in space in time (e.g., epizootic outbreaks, fire events, cone production) requiring large natural landscapes.

Sensitivity to Disturbance
Larger carnivores highly sensitive to human activities including low intensity hunting; large number of species highly sensitive to logging and fragmentation of natural forests, particularly late-successional species; late-successional species and features typically regenerate slowly; many temperate forests require periodic fires to maintain successional processes and many species; exotic species can have extensive and significant impacts on natural forest communities.

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Temperate Coniferous Forest | Biomes | WWF

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Temperate coniferous forests are found predominantly in areas with warm summers and cool winters, and vary enormously in their kinds of plant life.

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These habitats are found all over the world. Douglas Fir trees grow tall in this habitat. Twigs, logs and leaves are all over the ground. Small animals live in dead trees on the ground.

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The Arizona fescue has one to three foot tall seed stalks. The plant has a strong root system which can withstand droughts well. It is also good for animal grazing and it can show if you are overgrazing.

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(EA) 1. Whipple Penstemons grow mixed in with other wildflowers and grass in order to camouflage itself.

2. Fuzzy stamen rests on it’s lower petals which helps produce pollen.

3. These flowers are often used for decoration because of the way it’s shaped and how beautiful it is.

4. Humans use these flowers for traditions such as Cinco De Mayo, Halloween, etc. because of how tall they are, they can grow up to 2 feet.

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1. Snowshoe hares live in forests with a bushy understory.

2. Snowshoe hares are born with fur.

3.They have extra hair on their hind feet which let them walk on top of snow.

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The Golden-Mantled Ground Squirrel is 24-31 cm long. It will eat almost anything. For shelter, it will dig long burrows that are shallow. They like to live by themselves and they hibernate during the winter. Appearance wise they look like chipmunks but without the facial stripes.

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1. The ruby-crowned kinglet  eats sap, seeds, most available insects, multiple berries and sometimes nectar.

2. The Ruby-crowned Kinglet lives in thickets, deciduous, and coniferous forests.

3. The Ruby-crowned Kinglet is 3.8 - 4.5 in (10 - 11 cm) in size.

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(EA) 1. The Rio Grande cutthroat is a very colorful fish.

2. The Rio Grande cutthroat eats insects, small animals, and plants in the summer.

3. The female Rio Grande cutthroat lays her eggs between March and July, making a gravel nest in flowing water.

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Common animals in the area include; Abert’s Squirrel, Rio Grande Cutthroat Trout, the Blue Grouse, the Rocky Mountain Elk, and the Western Bluebird.

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C is for Conifers - They Might Be Giants

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The temperature in the coniferous forest ranges from -40ºC (-40ºF) to 20ºC (68ºF)
but the average temperature in summer is about 10ºC (50ºF).

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Effects of Climate Change on the lifezone.

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Effects of Climate Change on the lifezone.

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Drought, insects, and wildfires have damaged New Mexico forests at a dangerous scale. Higher temperatures and drought will increase the severity, frequency and the extent of wildfires in New Mexico.  These wildfires can likely cause destruction to property, livelihoods, and human health.  These wildfires also badly affect the environment and animals in the area.

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Rainstorm Sounds for Relaxing, Focus or Deep Sleep | Nature White Noise | 8 Hour Video

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The Coniferous Forest Zone gets about 30 to 35 inches of rain and snow a year and it generally happens during Winter.

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Common plants in the Coniferous Forest Zone are quaking aspens, whipple penstemons, Douglas firs, and ponderosa pines.. There are many trees as well, and they grow thick which forms a canopy cover.

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The average elevation in the Coniferous Forest is about 8.500 to 9.500 feet.

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Animals - Small animals use dead trees on the ground as homes. For example, Blue Grouses use spruce aspens and fir trees for homes.  Animals also use the habitat as a food source; grouse, deer, and chipmunks eat white fir tree seeds as their food source. Humans use this forest to hike and explore.