North America- Flora & Fauna

Flora 

Temperate coniferous forests are terrestrial biomes found in the temperate regions of the world. These found in areas that have long winters and moderate to high annual rainfall. These forests make up one third of the world’s forest and found in parts of North America .The northern American coniferous forest also known as the taiga, or the boreal forest.

 

 

 

Coniferous forest vegetation composed primarily of cone-bearing needle-leaved or scale-leaved evergreen trees. The understory also contains a wide variety of herbaceous and shrub species. Pines, spruces, firs, and larches are the dominant trees in coniferous forests. 

Fauna

Mammals found in the coniferous region include moose, deer, reindeer or caribou, mice and squirrels. Predators include wolves, lynxes, bears, foxes and wolverines. Wolverines are small, fierce carnivores that belong to the weasel and stoat family.

The bear lives in the coniferous forest as an omnivore. Every summer the bear feasts upon berries and salmon to "fatten up" for their long winter hibernation. When snows begin to fall the fat bear goes to its den and sleeps until the spring comes again.

  

The moose (North America) or elk (Eurasia) is the largest extant species in the deer family.

A lynx plural lynx or lynxes are any of the four species within the Lynx genus of medium-sized wild cats.

 

A food web (or food cycle) is the natural interconnection of food chains and generally, a graphical representation (usually an image) of what-eats-what in an ecological community .Another name for food web is a consumer-resource system.