meterologist
rPrecipitation exceeds 200cm a year.
The temperature is between 5C - 25C. Temperate rainforest are located by the coastlines and by the mountains. Ocean winds add moisture to the biome. The water around the biome keeps the area warm. |
Temperate rainforest are mostly located in western north and south America.
New Zealand and Australia also have temperate rainforest.
We are living in a temperate rainforest.
New Zealand and Australia also have temperate rainforest.
We are living in a temperate rainforest.
soil
On the forest floor of temperate rainforests the soil is dark and damp. This soil is richer than the soil of tropical rainforests partly because the trees in tropical rainforests spread their roots into large mats that suck all of the nutrients out of the soil. While temperate rainforests, because they are less biodiverse, have not developed plants that do that. "Nurse" logs are trees that have fallen and as they decompose they provide nutrients for the plants nearby.
symbiotic
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Mutualism is any relationship between individuals of different species where both individuals benefit. In general, only lifelong interactions involving close physical and biochemical contact can properly be considered symbiotic. Mutualistic relationships may be either obligate for both species, obligate for one but facultative for the other, or facultative for both. Many biologists restrict the definition of symbiosis to close mutualist relationships.
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For Example
The lichens in which fungus and algae both benefit each other. Both organisms benefit from this association as the algal(cyanobacterial partner) possess the green pigment chlorophyll, enabling them to use sunlight’s energy to make their own food from water and carbon dioxide through photosynthesis. They also provide vitamins to the fungi. Cyanobacteria can make amino acids directly from the nitrogen gas in the atmosphere. The fungi, in turn, protects its partners from drying out and shades them from strong sunlight by enclosing the photosynthesizing partners within the body of the lichen. Commensalism |