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Chaparral Climograph

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Chaparral Keystone Species: This biomes Keystone species is the Coyote. They do many things from providing food for insects, shelter for wildlife and adding nutrients to the soil allowing platns to grow.
Want to learn more? Here!

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A Fun Fact about this Biome is that it only gets about 10-20 inches of rain PER YEAR! and during the summer it is normally sooo hot that the chaparral goes through a drought. There are tons of plants that grow there because they don't need much water! Want to learn more about the Chaparral? Click this link!

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Hiking Through the Chaparral Biome, California

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California is a Chaparral. Anthropogenic Disruptions and Concerns: Humans and Animals. We as humans are contributing negatively to this chaparral because of all the air pollution we are creating. By building homes and using tons on machinery we are contributing to air pollution and making everything worse for the evironment. Also humas are the cause of a lot of the fires that are happening in the Chaparral since they are all man made.

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Climograph Above^

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A Keystone Species of the Daintree Rainforest is the Cassowary. The Cassowary is a flightless bird from queensland and it is on the verge of becoming endangered. They are becoming endangered because of deforestation. When their homes get destroyed scientists have found that they have a hard time establishing a new one. It eats the fruit of trees and distributes it all over the forest. Interested? here's a website that talks more about the Cassowary.

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This rainforest is one of the most biologically diverse rainforests in the world. It contains 30% of Australias frog population, 65% of butterflies and bats and 12,000 different species of insects. Not only is it diverse but each of the species are unique!
Here are some more interesting facts about the Daintree Rainforest.

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Anthropological Disruptions and Concerns in the Daintree Rainforest:
While I was doing my research the first thing that popped up was the amount of weeds that populate this forest. An anthropological concern and disruption would be weeds because they disrupt ecosystems, compete with native plants, change fire regimes and create soil erosion. Weeds are a disruption to the environment. Check out the website linked above for some cool videos and information about some of the Daintree Rainforest Animals!

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Cape Tribulation Accommodation - eco-accommodation in the Daintree Rainforest National Park

The Daintree rainforest is home to many animals, some not found anywhere else on the planet.

Here is a quick introduction to some of the animals of the Daintree rainforest;

This sunbird is busy building a nest under the front verandah roof (September 2007)

Cassowary visiting Rainforest Hideaway

Goanna

Amethyst python, photo by Mason's tours

Brush turkey

White lipped tree frog

Brown tree snake, photo by
Jungle Adventures

Rhino beetle

Red necked crake, locally
known as 'mad woman laughing bird'.

Praying mantis

Longicorn beetle

Victoria's rifle bird

Saltwater crocodile, photo
by Solar Whisper

Treefrog, photo by
Cooper Creek wilderness

Bandicoot, a regular visitor
to Rainforest Hideaway

A tree kangaroo spotted at Jungle Surfing,
just up the road from Rainforest Hideaway

These are only some of the animals you may encounter during your visit to the Daintree rainforest, there are many more, some are common and you may see them anywhere, some are harder to find and you may need the help of a guide on one of the guided walks or other tours that are available in this area.
They are a great source of inspiration and can be a part of meditation techniques and can even inspire study into the environment and wildlife of the world. A trip to the Rainforest Hideaway is certainly as good or better than meditation classes in Sydney.

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The Daintree rainforest is home to many animals, some not found anywhere else on the planet. This sunbird is busy building a nest under the front verandah roof (September 2007) Cassowary visiting Rainforest Hideaway Goanna Amethyst python, photo by Mason's tours Brush turkey White lipped tree frog Brown tree snake, photo by Jungle Adventures Rhino beetle Red necked crake, locally known as 'mad woman laughing bird'.

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A Keystone Species of The Great Barrier Reef is the coral! They are "major calcifiers". They are a foundation species and without them there wouldn't be a Great Barrier Reef! The decline due to bleaching is very worrying!!

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Did you know that the Reef is MILLIONS of years old!! and That a ton of prehistoric creatures still live there!! Woah! An animal called the nautilus which is in the family of the squid lives there and has remained unchanged for the past 500 MILLION YEARS!

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Anthropological Concerns:
Climate Change, Coastal Development and Water Quality are all anthropological concerns of the Great Barrier Reef.
Climate Change: The climate is starting to change because of all of the carbon that we are putting into the environment and it is starting to bleach all of the coral.
Coastal Developmet/Water Quality: Since they are starting to develop coastlines and change things on land it is eroding into the water making the water quality bad for the fish.

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ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies

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Underwater surveys of the northern Great Barrier Reef during the 2016 coral bleaching event

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Estuary Characteristics:
- Brackish water
- Mix of salt and freshwater
- Concentration of dissolved oxygen, salinity and sediment load.

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Savanna Characteristics:
- Grasses and Trees
- Rainy season & Dry season
- Warm temperature
- Large herds of animals

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Chaparral Forest: A characteristic of the California Chaparral is that it has a huge aray of plants and animals that have adapted to very warm temperatures. It also has characteristics of a grassland and a rainforest.

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Temperate Forests/Decidious Forest Characteristics:
- High levels of Precipitation
- High levels of humidity
- Lots of Decidious trees

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Tropical and subtropical coniferous forests

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Alpine/Mountains
- Cold
- Windy
- Snowy
- Nothing grows
- Very short frost free period

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Tundra Characteristics:
- Extremely cold climate
- No trees
- Low biotic diversity
- Limitation of drainage

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Taiga Forest Characteristics:
- Evergreen trees
- Very cold weather
- Dry, the precipitation is only a little bit more than the desert.

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Temperate Grasslands
- Devoid of trees
- Two types (Steppe and Praries)
- Steepes: lower grass
- Praries: taller grass
- Less precipitation than Savannas
- Broader temperature extremes

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Desert Characteristics:
- Aridity: Deficiency of moisture
- Extreme heat
- Precipitation
- Humidity

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Daintree Rainforest, Cape Tribulation Road, Cape Tribulation QLD, Australia

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Daintree Rainforest, Cape Tribulation Road, Cape Tribulation QLD, Australia

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Daintree Rainforest, Cape Tribulation Road, Cape Tribulation QLD, Australia

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Tropical Rainforest Characteristics:
- High rainfall
- High temperatures
- Nutrient poor soil
- High levels of biodiversity

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Great Barrier Reef Characteristics:
- Made up of 70 bio regions
- 3,000 coral reefs
- 300 coral cays
- 600 continental islands & 150 inshore mangrove islands