The Forest and the Trees

Zoey Abram

The Forest and the Trees

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Index

Temperature Change

Alzatea Verticillata

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Adaptations

Miles Silman

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Global Warming

Work Cited

Theories

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Alzatea Verticillate

- Alzatea verticillata is a small flowering tree, native to the Neotropics. It inhabits moist submontane forests from Costa Rica and Panama in Central America south to Peru and Bolivia in tropical South America. - It is the sole species of genus Alzatea and family Alzateaceae. - Has yet to be able to migrate

What does this mean?

Its at risk of going extint as tempertures continue to rise

“My primary interests are community composition and dynamics of Andean and Amazonian tree communities in both space and time. The lab’s current research focuses on combining modern- and paleoecology to understand tree distributions and plant-climate relationships in the Andes and Amazon.

Miles Silman

Who is Miles Silman?

- A professor at Wake Forest University and a forest ecologist- He study Biology at the University of Missouri then a PHD at Duke University - He has over 25 years of experience in the Andes and Amazon and is a founding member of the Andes Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research Group

Global Warming

Its bad for all ecosystems

- Increased temperatures and humidity = more diversity.... to a certain extent - When temperatures increase too much, ecosystems are forced to migrate up in elevation to be back in a comfortable climate - Its not necassarily the temperature change, its the rate of the change

Animals can't adapt quicly enough and the climate becomes unstable

Tachinus Caelatus

Between 1990 and 2020

7%

2%

-0.35%

4%

-14%

Overall Forest loss over a 30 year period, That is equavalent to half the size of India

-13%

0.1%

Work Cited

Alzatea verticillata. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/827804-Alzatea-verticillata Cocalero. (2022). Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocalero Conte, N. (2022). Mapped: 30 years of deforestation and forest growth, by country. Retrieved from https://decarbonization.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-30-years-of-deforestation-and-forest-growth-by-country/ Miles Silman. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://biology.wfu.edu/faculty-research/miles-silman/ University, W. F. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://users.wfu.edu/silmanmr/

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