Ecosystems

Ecosystems

1. Temperate deciduous forest

   • Epping Forest
   • 40-60 latitude
   • Maritime influence
   • Brown earth soil
     • pH 5
     • Nutrient rich
     • good drainage
   • bluebells ans snowdrops in spring
   • lose leaves due to transpiration
   • NET productivity 1,200gm/m2 per year
   • Climax vegetation- oak tree

2. Plagioclimax

   • Heather moorland
     • North yorkshire moors
     • red grouse
       • hunting
         • economic value
         • Local employment
     • SSSI
       • 110 bird species
       • government must protect
         • global responsibility
       • 75% in britain
       • 90% inNational Parks
     • Burnt every 15 years
       • fire resistant
       • kill other plants and heather bettle
       • Prevent succession
     • Acid soil
       • pH 4

3. Ecological conservation area

   • Dulwich Upper wood
     • 250 diffrent types of fungi
     • 40 bird species nesting sites,owls
     • Lords and ladies, wood anemone, bluebells, yellow pimpernal
     • coppiced areas, wet areas and ponds, herb gardens, foxglove areas
     • foxes,hedgehogs, bats, butterflies, moths,dormice
     • Success: entrance fee,preserved species, cheap use of land, but maintance costs

4. Succession

5. Ecologies along routeways

   • Roads
     • London plane tree
       • aesthetic value- flaking bark
       • mess- fruit,berries, leaves, bark
       • pollution tolerant- hairs absorb pollution
       • pests and diesease- ralery affected
       • soil- poor+ salty
       • little space- tolerant to pruning
       • rarly blow over, shed branches
       • little canopy, intercept rain
       • birds, plants beneath
     • Kestral, scavendure birds
     • nitrogen rich
   • Canals
     • waterfowl
       • moorhens
       • Kingfisher
       • Ducks
     • Insects
       • dragonflies
       • Damsleflies
     • Aquatic plants
       • yellow flag iris
   • Railway lines
     • oxford ragwort
     • primrsoe and foxglove- light demanding
     • foxes+badgers
     • Brambles- nesting site for birds

6. Colonisation of wasteland

7. Rural urban fringe