TROPICAL DRY FOREST

CLIMATE

• Temperature Range ⛅️ Greater than 17c (63F)
• Annual Precipitation 💦 500-2000 mm

🍃PLANT ADAPTATIONS 🌳

• Plant roots store water for the dry season
• Dry scrubs and plants falling and crumbling off the dry season
• Development of water storage

ANIMAL ADAPTATION 🐰

• Summertime hibernation
• Birds and monkeys retreat to damp areas in order to survive
• Frogs bury themselves in mud.

SITES TO SEE

• National parks of Madagascar
• Guanacaste national park of Costa Rica
• El impossible national park

ACTIVITES TO DO

• Hiking because we enjoy nature around us
• Observing because we can see all kind of stuff in the tropical dry forest
• Kayaking because because it's fun too see all the fishes

HUMAN IMPACT

• What did they do ..?
• -defrostration and forest fragmentation
• How did this hurt/help the environment ..?
• - it hurts the environment by cutting down trees & clearing forest
• How the plants/animals respond..?

ORGANISM TAXONONY

GIRAFFE (ANIMAL)

• *Kingdom-Anamalia
• *Phylum-Chodata
• *Class-Mammalia
• *Order-Artiodactyla
• *Family-Giraffidae

GIRAFFE (ANIMAL)

• *Genus-Giraffa
• *Species-G. Camelopardalis
• Multicellular & Nucleus
• Eukaryotic
• Heterotroph

GIRAFFE (ANIMAL)

• Close Relative: okapia
• Phylum characteristic:
• - have a notochord, hollow nerve cord,
• pharyngeal pouches, endostyle.

(PLANT) ORCHID

• *Kingdom-Plantae
• *Phylum-Angiosperm
• *Class-Monocots
• *Order-Asparagales
• *Family-Orchidceae

(PLANT) ORCHID

• *Genus-Dracula
• *Species-Epidendrum
• Cell wall &Nucleus
• Multicellular
• Eukaryotic & Autotroph

(PLANTS) ORCHID

• Close relative: Phalaenopsis
• Angiosperm
• Evergreen
• Vascular

ENDOPHYTHIC (FUNGI)

• *Kingdom-Fungal Endophytes
• *Phylum-Ascomycota
• *Class-Clavicipitaceous Endophytes
• *Order-Sebacinacles
• *Family-Lauracease

ENDOPHYTHIC (FUNGI)

• *Genus-Aspergillus
• *Species-Mangrore
• Multicellular
• Cell wall & Nucleus
• Eukaryotic & Heterotrophic

ENDOPHYTHIC (FUNGI)

• Close relatives: Talaromyces
• How does digestion occur.?
• - the fungi must be broken down into simpler
• molecules that can be transported through
• their walls

PLASMODIUM (PROTIST)

• *Kingdom-Protist
• *Phylum-Apicomplexa
• *Class-Sporozoasida
• *Order-Eucoccidiorida
• *Family-Plasmodiidae

PLASMODIUM (PROTIST)

• *Genus: Plasmodiidae
• *Species: Ovale
• Single-celled
• Nucleus
• Eukaryotic

PLASMODIUM (PROTIST)

• Autotrophic & Heterotrophic
• Animal-like &Plant-like

AZOTOBACTER (EUBACTERIS)

• *Kingdom-baceria
• *Phylum-Proteobacteroa
• *Class-Gammaproteobacteria
• *Order- Pseudomadales
• *Family-Pseudomonadacae

AZOBACTER(EUBACTERIA)

• *Genus: Azotobacter
• *Species: Aztobacter vinelandii
• Multicellular
• Nucleus & Cell Wall
• Eukaryotic & Heterotrophic

AZTOBACTER (EUBACTERIA)

• Multicellular
• Cell wall & Nucleus
• Eukaryotic
• Heterotrophic
• Motile and rod shaped

RELATIONSHIPS

PARASITISM

• Definition:
• 1 species benefits, the other is harmed
• Host: Sycamore Trees
• Parasite: Sycamore lace bugs

PREDATION

• Definition:
• -An interaction in which 1 organism
• kills another food for food
• Predator: Madagascar ground boa
• Prey:Hypogeonys antimena

COMMENSALISM

• Definition:
• *One species benefits, the other is unaffected
• - Epiphytes benefits from being exposed
• to sunlight
• -Cactus does not take away from the host

MUTUALISM

• Definition: both species benefits
• -Plants receive protection because
• ants will bite herbivores.
• - Ants use plant as their home
• & provide nectar from plant

COMPETITION

• Definition:
• *struggle between organisms to
• survive using same limited source
• - Jaguars
• - Pumas

NITROGEN CYCLE

WATER CYCLE

CARBON CYCLE

FOOD WEB

• Decomposer: Mushrooms
• Detrivore: Desliza
• Producer #1: Cocoa Trees
• Producer #2: Banana Trees
• Primary Consumer: Baobab Tree

FOOD WEB

• Secondary Consumer: Jack Rabbit
• Tertiary Consumer: Bobcat
• Quaternary Consumer: Mountain lion
• Secondary: Giraffe & Colorful manakin bird
• Primary: Bull colored indo chinese lizard,

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LEVELS OF ORGANIZATION

BIOSHERE

• -This is where all living
• things on earth live.

BIOME

• -A large naturally occuring
• community of plants and
• animals occupying a major
• habitat.

ECOSYSTEM

• -Interactions among populations
• In a community of living
• factors and the communitys
• physical surroundings of
• non living factors

COMMUNITY

• -Collection of several
• Interacting populations that
• Inhabitat a common environment

POPULATION

• -Group of organisms of
• One species that interbreed
• and life in the same place at the same time

ORGANISM

• Anything that posses all
• characteristics of life.

HIPPO :-)

HABITAT LOSS

• -When an animal losses
• its home.
• EX: -Mary kangaroo rat in Cape
• dry forest.

INVASIVE SPECIES

• -Major to the environment
• because they can change habitats
• & alter functions
• EX: - A fire tree is serious threat
• to native plants

POLLUTION

• - The presents in the environment
• of a thing that has harmful effects
• EX: -Human fires or loss of
• territory

POPULATION

• -Group of organism that one
• species that interbreed &
• live in the same place & time

OVERHARVESTING/OVERUSE

• -Overharvesting is extreme use
• of some important areas that
• damages them including humans.
• -Overuse to use too much or too
• often

SUCCESSION

PRIMARY SUCCESION

• -Succession of plant life,occurring in
• an environment in which substrate
• devoid of vegetation & usually liking
• soil such as lava flow or area left
• from glacier is deposited

SECONDARY SUCCESSION

• -Is much more rapid process
• than primary succession
• because the soil & nutrients
• are already available

CLIMAX COMMUNITY

• -The development of
• vegetation in an are over
• time.

THE END :)