EXAM Flashcards
Algonquin park
- oldest provincial park in ontario
- rivers flowing in all directions
- white tailed deer were originally not present
- home to boreal forest plants and animals
- east side lower, less precipitation
- public wolf howls held in august
species: Eastern wolves, giant white pines, eastern hemlock, barred owl, red squirrel, wood turtle, pickerel frog, red crossbill, pine warbler, arctic sculpin (cedar lake), boreal chickadee (southern range), macouns arctic butterflies (southern range), spruce grouce (southern), Canada jays (southern)
Barron canyon
Species: eastern white cedar, xanthoria lichen, basswood, eastern phoebe, poison ivy
Petawawa river (Eastern Algonquin)
-Calciphilic
-flows through geological fault line
-connects to Ottawa river
-deposited sand at lake travers and radiant lake
bedrock
Species: pickerel frogs, walleye, cardinal flowers, purple fringed orchids
Hudson bay lowlands
ribbed fens
superior boreal forest
-disjunct population of subarctic plants
-highest elevations in ontario
Species: alpine woodsia, sparrows egg ladys slippers
Plant animal associations
sugar maple-woodland jumping mice American beech-black bear white pine-red crossbill black spruce-spruce grouse trembling aspen-beaver eastern hemlock-yellow bellied sapsucker
Hardwood forest shrub layer
species: Black throated blue warbler, wood thrush
Hardwood forest canopy
species: red eyed vireo, scarlet tanager
Clay belt (boreal forest)
-sand dunes caused by tyrell sea
Species:showy ladys slipper
Great Lakes St Lawrence Forest Region
-many southern species reach their northern range limits here
-many northern species reach their southern range limits here
-greater diversity and warmer than boreal forest
situated on
species: white/red pine (indicators)
Boreal forest species: white spruce, balsam fir, red squirrel, spruce grouse
Carolinian forest species:sugar maple, yellow birch, gray squirrel, scarlet tanager
Carolinian forest region
-Has GLSL species
eastern hemlock
grow on cool, moist north facing slopes
eastern hemlock (Algonquin highland)
grow on cool, moist north facing slopes
White pine needles
long, groups of five
great lakes endemic
pitchers thistle
Algonquin wolves
- average pack size seven
- eastern wolf
- subject of 3 major studies by pimlott, theberge and patterson
Algonquin wolves
- average pack size seven
- eastern wolf
- subject of 3 major studies by pimlott, theberge and Patterson
- main prey are deer, moose and beaver
Frontenac arch (GLSL)
-warmest part of GLSL
-world biosphere reserve
-thousand islands link it to adirondak
species: deerberry, pitch pine (lake of the woods/rainy river), shagbark hickory, cerulean warbler (summer), gray rat snake, five lined skink, rocky polyody, marginal shield fern, purple stemmed cliffbrake, maiden hair spleenwort
Carolinian Species:red bellied woodpeckers, cottontails, gray squirrels, eastern red cedar, bladdernut, white oak
Lake superior provincial park
Species: butterwort
red pine needles
long, clusters of two
cattail marshes
-periodic episodes of flooding
Species:duckweed, marsh fern, muskrats, American bitterns, marsh wrens, virginia rails, pied bill grebes, skimmer dragonflies
grass that grows on sand dunes
beach pea
fen indicator species
bog bean
hardwood forest floor
species: oven birds, riffed grouse