Forestry
- Created by: emzibee
- Created on: 22-05-15 10:37
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- Forestry
- Forest Products
- Edible Products e.g. nuts & fruit
- Small Unsawn Logs e.g. Paper
- Large Unsawn logs e.g. timber for building & furniture
- Teakwood, rosewood
- Energy Resources e.g. charcoal or palm oil for biodiesel
- Residues e.g. woodchip mulch
- Medicines e.g. Vincristine, an anti cancer drug
- HARVESTING
- Natural Forests
- Cocoa, Brazil Nuts
- Artificial Plantations
- pine timber, cork,bananas
- Natural Forests
- Forest Ecosystems
- Tropical Rainforest
- Mean rainfall ~ 2200mm
- Temperature range 26 - 28oC
- Evergreen Trees (individual leaf drop occurs throughout year)
- Deciduous Forest
- Mean Rainfall ~ 900mm
- Temperature range 6-18oC
- Deciduous trees (total leaf drop occurs in Autumn
- Boreal Forest
- Mean Rainfall ~ 500mm
- Temperature range -21-14 oC
- Coniferous trees (individual needle drop coous throughout year
- Tropical Rainforest
- Forest Struture and Ecosystem Functioning
- Structure
- Abiotic Factors
- Humidity
- Soil Moisture
- Light Levels
- Temperature
- Wind Speed
- Soil PH
- Biotic Factors
- Plant Abundance and Biodiversity
- Animal Population and Biodiversity
- Abiotic Factors
- Functioning
- Flows of Energy
- e.g. Trees -> caterpillar -> Birds
- Flows of Nutrients
- e.g. Trees -> fungi -> roots -> Trees
- Flows of Energy
- Structure
- Forest Products
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