Two of the most prominent disturbances to trees are wildfire and bark beetles in the Northwest United states. Over the years, millions of acres of timberland and forest have been damaged or destroyed due to wildfires and bark beetles. Both of these disturbances are brought about by climate and stand conditions. The future forecast for climate changes suggest that there will be an increase in wildfires and also the bark beetle outbreaks. These disturbances affect the water quantity, wildlife, and
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Introduction In the northern hemisphere, many oak trees deriving from hundreds of species can be found. Oak trees come from the genus Quercus. The flowers produced on oak trees are known as acorns. The Flowering Dogwood tree can be found in eastern North America, and is known as genus Cornus Florida. The flowering dogwood tree produces loose circular fruit. In the experiment, the effects of climate on primary tree growth in different genus that originate from the same area were examined. Two different
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The Grindylows that inhabit the Black Lake has developed different mechanisms to survive the conditions in their environment. Through careful observation we have compiled the most likely combination of physiological adaptations for the Grindylows to thrive in their habitat. In order to survive in the conditions of the Black Lake, the Grindylow faces multiple challenges. Primarily, their living condition can be categorized into three phases; summer day, summer night and winter. During the summer
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Benedict’s Solution. 2. What can you conclude about the molecular make-up of potatoes and onions based on the test you performed? Why might these foods contain these substance(s)? They both came back as positive to containing reducing sugars. Since they Plants, they typically create and store sugars within their cells of various types. 3. What results would you expect if you tested ribose, a monosaccharide, with Benedict’s solution? Biuret solution? Ribose is a carbohydrate, meaning that Biuret Solution
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spectrum causes the most plant growth and which color in the visible spectrum causes the least plant growth? If the different light colors affect the plants' growth then the most absorbed colors result in the most growth and the least absorbed ones will cause the least plant growth. 2. How did you test your hypothesis? Which variables did you control in your experiment and which variable did you change in order to compare your growth results? I observed the growth of the plants under each light color
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The Effects of Climate on Phytoplankton Introduction Phytoplankton are dependent on climate and are affected greatly by the drastic climate change. Phytoplankton are “floating and swimming algae and photosynthetic prokaryotic organisms of lakes and oceans” (Nester 2012). “Climate change is not restricted to temperature change, but cloudiness and hence surface irradiance are predicted to change as well” (Klauschies 2012). Climate change that effects phytoplankton depends on cell size and food web
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exceptionally frosty with just snowfall (Taiga, 2000). The summers are warm, blustery, and sticky. A considerable measure of coniferous trees develops in the taiga. The taiga is otherwise called the boreal timberland. The taiga doesn't have the same number of plant and creature species as the tropical or the deciduous backwoods biomes. It has a great many bugs in the mid-year. Flying creatures move there consistently to nest and sustain. The summers are mostly warm and moist and very
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1. A forest surrounded by highways, with a species of squirrel. Fragmented watersheds, trout. Clear cutting of rain forest, tree frogs. 2. A cactus is a specialist species, its habitat is the desert. So, if the cactus received too much water or was brought to a higher elevation it would die. 3. This would be a large and strenuous study; however, each species would have to be monitored at all times in all habitats. All their actions and behaviors would need to be assessed to determine their role in
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In 1992, Florida State University adopted the Brassica rapa plant from research scientists at the University of Wisconsin (Sherdan et al., 2007). Brassica rapa is in the same family as cabbage, broccoli, turnip, mustard, and cauliflower; it also makes up about one-third of all vegetable oil worldwide (Sherdan et al., 2007). It is a good model species due to its ability to grow, germinate, and flower rapidly (Sherdan et al., 2007). In this experiment, two strains of Brassica rapa seeds were used
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West Consulting Firm 802 W Longleaf Drive Unit 18 Auburn, AL 36832 Mr. Doug Chapman 123 Main Street Mobile, AL 31864 November 5, 2015 Subject: Slime Flux Dear Mr. Chapman, The symptoms you described sound like Slime Flux, commonly referred to as Bacterial Wetwood. This is an important disease in the fact that it typically causes mortality of the tree. This disease is caused by bacteria of a variety of different species entering the tree either through an open wound. Slime Flux often infects
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