The Himalayan Alpine : The Graphs
In the first picture you can see that in he Energy Pyramid it shows how the energy is traveling trough out the food chain. When you look at the bottom of the Pyramid you can tell that is the producer then the next level is primary consumer and so on.
In the third picture you can see a Tropic Table which shows what animals can be placed in a food web. You can use the Food web to create your Tropic Table. When you take the information from a food web and put it in a tropic table it will allow people to look and see what a certain animal can do.
In the second picture there is a food web describing how different food chains come together is at the top of all the food chain. A food web is basically a bunch of food chains linked together causing the effect of a web. The propose of it is to see who is at the top of the food web in a Biome.
The average precipitation reaches around 16 inches per year. In the summer there is around 3 inches of precipitation. In the winter there is about .5 inches of precipitation. Sleet, snow and rain are some forms of precipitation that falls in the Himalayan Alpine. Because of the melting, the Himalayan Alpine climate is a harsh environment, therefore few animals and plants can live there. The few plants that do inhabit the Alpine consist of rhododendrons, the tea plant and shrub type plants. They have to adapt to the freezing temperatures, high winds and to a short growing season. That is why most of the plants grow low to the ground.
The Alpine climate is similar to the climate of the biome surrounding it. For example, there are two different types of biomes on each side of the Himalayan mountains, therefore the climate on one side of these mountains is different from that on the other side.
Himalayan Tahr- One of the three species of Tahr. Related to the wild goat. Has specially adapted to live in the harsh climate of the himalayan alpines.
Snow Leopard- The snow leopard is part of the cat family. It lives in the Himalayan alpine regions of central Asia. The snow leopard looks like a tiger. It has a gray coat with dark gray ringed spots. The snow leopard's coat is the thickest of any cat.
Wild Yak- Most domestic yaks of Tibet, and central Asia have black-brown, dense, woolly, and extremely shaggy coats. The wild yak of the Tibetan Plateau has a black-brown coat with patches of white. They have horns that grow up to 20 inches long in females, and 40 inches in males. The curved horns grow out from the sides of their heads and curve upwards. They use their horns to dig under the snow for food. Their bodies can grow up to 11 feet in length, their tails can grow up to 24 inches and are very bushy.
Rhododendron aeruginosum- Rhododendron sap. Aeruginosum is a wild species rhododendron found in the Himalayan alpine regions of Northern India, Bhutan, and Nepal. It grows on the stony alpine slopes and ledges at altitudes of 12,000 to 14,500 feet. Rhododendrons are part of the heath family, like blueberries, cranberries, and heathers.
Ever since the earthquake in Nepal, animals have been affected in many ways. The worst effect of this disaster has been on cows and goats in remote locations that have lost their shelters and been exposed to the elements for days, which has made many of them very sick. Many animals have died because of the low food supply and harsh winters. Negative impacts from tourism occur when the level of visitor use is greater than the environment's ability to cope with this use within the acceptable limits of change. Because of this, the animal population has decreased.
Tourism can create great pressure on local resources like energy, food, and other raw materials that may already be in short supply. Removing organisms from its biome affects other biomes in many ways. If an organism gets removed, the whole ecosystem could collapse. For example, if a secondary consumer were to die out, all the other organisms that need it for food will die, then the primary consumers that were eaten by the secondary consumer will start to over populate. Doing this will hurt the ecosystem in many ways. Ever since the earthquake in Nepal, animals have been affected in many ways.
The worst effect of this disaster has been on cows and goats in remote locations that have lost their shelters and been exposed to the elements for days, which has made many of them very sick. Many animals have died because of the low food supply and harsh winters. Negative impacts from tourism occur when the level of visitor use is greater than the environment's ability to cope with this use within the acceptable limits of change. Because of this, the animal population has decreased.
Tourism can create great pressure on local resources like energy, food, and other raw materials that may already be in short supply. Removing organisms from its biome affects other biomes in many ways. If an organism gets removed, the whole ecosystem could collapse. For example, if a secondary consumer were to die out, all the other organisms that need it for food will die, then the primary consumers that were eaten by the secondary consumer will start to over populate. Doing this will hurt the ecosystem
