Ecosystem

By: Chansu Lee

My top biotic factor is….• Name: Spotted salamander• Scientific name: Ambystoma maculatum• Higher classification: Mole Salamander• Rank: Species• Symbol of: South Carolina

This leaf is a biotic factor

Population

• Spotted salamander- 100,000• White spruce- 113,135• Bunch beery- 356,175• Gray wolf- About 1,475• Great gray owl- About 862

Organism (forest)

Biotic factor• Spotted salamander• White spruce• Bunchberry• Gray wolf• Great gray owl• Beech tree

Abiotic factor

• soil moisture, • soil • pH• soil temperature • log decomposition level • Rain

Community

• Salamander = Spotted salamander• Spruce= White spruce• Berry= Bunch berry• Wolf= White wolf• Owl= Great gray owl

Michigan Ecosystems – Forests

Forest ecosystem

• A forest ecosystem is made up of soil, water,

plants, animals, insects, fungi, and bacteria.  All of

these things must interact with each other to form

the ecosystem. Normally forests occupy about 40

per cent of the world at the International level.

Fun facts!

• There are possibly over 30 million species of insects dwelling in the

canopies of tropical forests.

• Greater than a quarter of our rainforest is in Brazil

•  Grasslands cover one-fifth of the land on Earth.

• Penguins live only in the Southern Hemisphere and never in the Northern

Hemisphere

• Rainforests higher than 3,000 feet above sea level are called cloud forests.

• Deserts are developing and taking over the land. In Mali the desert has

taken about 20 miles in just 20 years.

Website: https://sites.google.com/site/bscscience-

treasures/ecosys-tems-1/ecosystems-for-kids/interesting-

facts