Biodiversity In Temperate Rainforest

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Biodiversity in Temperate Rainforest: Plants
• The Canopy Layer of the Temperate Rainforest is controlled by large evergreen conifers, which are trees that produce cones with seeds, some examples would be Costal redwood, Douglas Fir, and Sitka Spruce.
• In the understory layer, you can find dogwood and vine maples. Ferns, salal, and berry shrubs grow beneath the small trees in the filtered sunlight.
• On the forest floor, there is a wide covering of low growing lichens, mosses, small plants, such as Oxalis, wild flowers, and grasses (Melody Shaw, 2003). (Image from National Park Service, 2016)
Biodiversity in Temperate Rainforest: Animals
• Most of the food in temperate rainforest is found in the understory and canopy layers.
• When cones

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