Describe the plant life, animal life, and geology of the ecosystem in the area in California.?

Question

What populations and communities are present?

How dependent is your community on this ecosystem?

What are the limiting factors of the ecosystem?

Answer 1

It depends. It's much different in Northern California than here in Southern California. Around here its desert (although I live by the San Bernardino mtns, which means forests).

I'll tell you about Southern California. Here in terms of animals, there's mostly coyotes, snakes, and insects. We aren't too dependent on the ecosystem,and mostly on technology, although the lakes from the SB Mtns provide much of the water for southern california.

The real biodiversity is up North, which I wouldn't know too well about. I do know they've got Redwoods and Sequoia trees up there, which for a long time was what the logging industry depended on (kind of sad).

The most limiting factor down here is the weather (almost always hot), leading to a desert climate.

Try to get some more opinions. Good luck.

Answer 2

Northern California: A temperate rain and montane forest consisting primarily of Redwood and Douglas-Fir, the two tallest tree species in the northern hemisphere--with sword ferns, and various shrubbery dominating the upper branches, and under story of the canopy, 200 to 400 feet below, . This forest of the north pacific coast has certainly been degenerated after 150 years of industrial round the clock logging, upwards of an estimated 95% of the primal old growth forests having been logged and milled into lumber; evidence of the societal dependence on the fine wood of the Sequoia and the elastic miraculousness of the Douglas-Fir.