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In the lower latitudes, precipitation is more evenly distributed throughout the year. Stories, experiments, projects, and data investigations. Download issues for free. In general, coniferous forests have a pretty sparse understory. You can often see for a long way through the understory of a coniferous forest! Conifers specialize at growing in poor soils that are often sandier and drier than the richer soils found in deciduous forests.
Deciduous trees have a live-fast-die-young approach to their life cycle; each year, they put out a whole tree-full of new leaves, only to have them all die in the fall.
Trees get their nutrients from the soil, but not all soil has enough nutrients to support a deciduous tree in its yearly leaf-making endeavors.
Each winter, the needles enter a state of suspended animation, much like Rip Van Winkle, only to wake up in the spring again and start cranking away. Conifers have developed a lot of really neat adaptations to survive and thrive in nutrient-limited conditions. One of the biggest adaptations are their needles.
Conifer needles may look pretty mundane, but the tree has put a lot of work into making them, and it expects to get a lot out of them. Each needle has a waxy coating called a cuticle not to be confused with the cuticle on your fingernail! Needles are also pumped full of a mixture of chemicals like tannins and terpenes to make them distasteful to herbivores. They use these needles for a long time, though—from two to five years or longer.
Conifers are often known as evergreens because they keep their needles throughout the winter and stay green year-round. But, there are actually a few species of deciduous conifers! Conifers themselves often end up dominating many landscapes over time because they will slowly make it harder for other types of trees to grow. Remember how conifers are best at growing in poor soil conditions? The way conifers affect soil is pretty interesting. Over time, these needles pile up around the base of the tree.
Instead, they break down slowly and make the soil even more nutrient-limited. Tannins in the needles are also acidic and leach out into the soil, making it even harder for other deciduous plants and trees to get nutrients. In some coniferous forests, there are so many acidic tannins in the soil that they leach into rivers and stain the water yellow. The Taquamenon Falls in the upper peninsula of Michigan are famous for their colored water.
There are many types of conifers that can dominate coniferous forest biomes, such as pine, spruce, cypress, kauri, and redwood. Many grasses and herbaceous plants can still survive or even flourish in the coniferous understory.
Some plants and fungi are even adapted to live specifically with conifers, like slipper jack boletes and some mosses. Animals like pine marten, spotted owls, pine beetles, and crossbill birds have adapted to live almost entirely within coniferous forests. Crossbills, for example, have unique beaks where the upper and the lower parts of their beak completely overlap each other. While this looks odd, it serves in important purpose: it allows the crossbill to pry open cones to get to the delicious seeds inside:.
Some animals rely only partially on coniferous forests and travel elsewhere for other sources of food and cover. Moose, porcupines, mice, deer, and fox, among many other animals, can often be found in coniferous forests, although oftentimes they still require trips to other types of habitats. Moose, for example, prefer to eat deciduous leaves but will frequently travel through coniferous forests.
One of the most surprising things about many coniferous forests is that they actually need regular forest fires in order to be healthy. We typically think of forest fires as catastrophic occurrences that wipe out all living things for miles.
Forest fires certainly can do that, but they also have a less-well-known beneficial side. A healthy coniferous forest fire looks a lot different from the raging fires we see blazed across the evening news.
After a fire, the ground is changed. The burned plants release nutrients into the soil and make it even more fertile than it was before—almost like fertilizer for the next group of plants!
The understory is also cleared of any domineering plants, allowing other types of plants a chance to grow. Because the fire frequently gives new plants a chance to get a foothold get it? A prime example of how fire creates more diverse ecosystems is southern long-leaf pine forests.
These forests once ranged across most of the southeastern U. Check out this video to see how important fire is to longleaf pine ecosystems:. Rob caught up with a group of southern fire scientists to check out how this process works:. Other types of coniferous forests need fire for other reasons.
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