Spatial changes in biomes, habitats and animal migration patterns

Animal migration patterns

A habitat is the natural place or environment in which plants, animals and living organisms live.

Main concepts

Species extinction or decrease in number

consequences

Biome: an ecological concept related to an ecosystem like rainforest, woodland and tropical forest

Sea turtles: Turtles are facing more problems than most animals: warming ocean temperatures will alter currents and shift the distribution and abundance of prey species

Salmon: Salmon require cold, fast-flowing streams and rivers to spawn. Changing stream flows and warming waters in the Pacific Northwest are already impacting some salmon species and populations

change of the nature of biome

factors

Animal migration: the relatively long-distance movement of individual animals, usually on a seasonal basis. It is the most common form of migration in ecology

Habitat: the natural place or environment in which plants, animals and living organisms live

it is estimated that under a high emissions scenario, 12—39% and of the Earth’s terrestrial surface may experience disappearing climates by 2100

areas with desserts, forests and tundra may have different type of vegetation by 2100

habitat ranges are moving North and to higher elevations

habitat range shifts cause more competition and imbalance between species, some species having nowhere to go, leading to local extinction

the biggest transformations are projected to occur in

Southeastern U.S

Eastern Arabian Peninsula

East Africa

Western Sahara

Biomes

Animal migration: Animal migration is the relatively long-distance movement of individual animals, usually on a seasonal basis. It is the most common form of migration in ecology

Eastern India

Southeast Asia

an ecological concept related to an ecosystem like rainforest, woodland and tropical forest

Northwestern Australia

factors

The rising temperature will cause more than 3000 species in just the Western Hemisphere to change migration route by the end of this century, because they need to find destination with more suitable climate

consequences

rising sea levels

urbanization

industrialization

Works cited

loss of coral reefs

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