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Figure One

LOCAL BIOME

KRASNOYARSK – Translation, REDCLIFFS

M. Figure 1



Figure One: The local biome I am investigating is roughly 10KM from the city centre, it is an area apart of a place called Acad

suburb of the City Krasnoyarsk and City Council October as in October Revolution.

M. Figure 2 M. Figure 3

Pylon



Plantation Pine Grassland Taiga – Bir

B1 B2 B3



M. Figure 5



The area is made of a few major biomes, taiga, pine plantation and

Naturally the whole park should be taiga made up of silver birch, birch,

poplar, fir and various other trees and shrubs, since the park is not virginis not the case. Where humans have not cut trees down or destroyed

100% taiga, although because of human interaction it is mostly s

whereas pure virgin forest has an even distribution of trees. In the pine

all plantation planted by scientists in the 70’s. The grassland is natural b

is where water runs away and gets trapped, slowly though this grasslan

populated by trees, naturally though of course. Throughout the paimpacts can be seen, there are many dirt paths, some torn up by dirt

others just muddy, there is one café in the middle of the pine plantati

that area there are many camp fires and squirrels, these squirrels are ver

will eat out of your hand. In M. Figure 2 you can view the distributio

and in M. Figure 3 the main features of the park.



P1 P3P2

There is but one establishment in thispark area, it is called the forest café, it is

mainly busy during the summer and is a

part of the biosphere since it is made

from wood but also metal so also

lithosphere.

This is a gravel path which is a partof the lithosphere, this is a good

path because of the gravel, it means

that it is not muddy and slippery

during spring and autumn.

This Pyloa top the

and has

on the

closest t

the area.

the litho

made of

P6P4



P6

P7

P5P4

P4-5: This is the carpark, it is closed for

now, it is made of dirt and rocks and is

currently very muddy and slippery, it is a

part of the lithosphere.

P7: Bitumen path, these paths aren’t very

common in the forest, this is a nice path

with many squirrels on the side the you

can feed. It is a part of the lithosphere.

This

hydros

mome

when

fills u

usually



Fl1 - Raspberries Fl2 - Mushrooms Fl3 - Ferns

Fl4 – Mil thistle Fl5 - Native Wild Marijuana Fl6 - Dandelio



Fa1 – Red and Grey Squirrels

Fa6 – Wild DFa5 – Groundhog

Fa2 – Rats

Fa4 - Chipmunk

Fa3 – mice



Fa7 – Snowy Owl

Fa11 – Hill Dove

Fa9 – CrowFa8 – Golden Eagle

Fa10 – Great Spotted Woodpecker

Fa12 – European

Hamster

2a 2b



The silver birch tree is the most numerous tree inthe forest and the oldest too, it is native to all

areas and is a part of the taiga biome, this tree

takes the longest to grow out of all the others and

is very hardy, in autumn its leaves turn yellow, a

fully grown tree has the height of around 25m

and a width of roughly 50cm. These trees areconstatly faling over and regrowing. We marked

a metre on the tree.

Height: 11metres Biome: Taiga

Girth: 30cm

2a 2b

2c



Scots pine is the up and coming most

numerous tree to the forest, there are a

few plantations that have 40 yr old trees

but the natural ones are 100+ yrs old and

look much different to these plantationones. Scots pine is a very dry pin with a

thin canopy, it has a large squirrel

population and undergrowth finds it hard

to survive in the acidic soil. Scots pine is

definitely a dominator, fully grown,

natural pines reach a height of around 15

m and a width of 90cm.

Note: these pics are of plantation pine not

natural.

Height: 25m Biome: Plantation/Taiga

Width: 50cm

Metre Marker

2d 2e

2f

2g



Poplar is one of the more rare trees in the

park, in the natural forest next to the park

there is a lot but here in the park it doesn’t

grow so well in competition with silver birch. The poplat in the forest is very

different to that of Australian driveway

ones, this is more of a hardy sort, it looks

like a grey birch from below but is poplar.

When poplar are young they look stringy

and bent but straighten out. This particular

poplar was too big and in the brush to get agoo photo of. A fully grown poplar can

reach heights of 50 m and widths of

120cm

Height: ~20m Biome: Taiga

Width: 22cm

2g2h

2i



The crab apple tree is a rare tree and is

quite shrubby, it is common to see them

with broken branches and trampled on.Most have small fruits that taste starchy

and sweet and sour. This tree though is

important for grafting as its root system

is well adapted for the cold climate

even though its fruit is only good for

birds.

Height: 3m Biome: Taiga

Width: 9cm

2j

2k

2m



POPLAR TREE

M. Figure 4



I would simply say that the forest that is the park is a modified fores

answer though is more complicated than this, there is modified fore

there is also human impacted forest. The pin plantations are obvimodified forest, at some point the natural taiga was chopped down an

pines were planted. The taiga forest though is natural but human imp

in the taiga in the park you can easily see it is dominated by silver

this is not natural, I know this because I have seen virgin taiga right n

the park, the virgin taiga has much larger trees, more pines, more po

and a mix of birches and ferns whereas the human impacted taiga

got many ferns and is mainly Silverbirch. The modified forests and

are riddled with paths and this is an obvious forest modification

grassland is natural and is naturally regrowing its forest but at some

in the past the forest was chopped down there, this was probably w

house was built there and a skii hil opened.



The first issue is common

throughout the whole park, it is

muddy boggy tracks. This

problem causes the landscape to

change in shape, because of the

muddy tracks people walk off the

track trampling on shrubs and

sapplings causing forest regrowth

to slow. At the moment nobody is

addressing this problem, some

parts of the forest have bitumen

paths and others gravel but for the

most part they are just mud. On

M. Figure 2 you can see the main

path and carpark where the major

problems are.

I1-1 I1-2



I2-1 I2-2

This is the Southern slope of Pancake Mountain just below the pylon in M. Figure 2. The pr

in the past the dirt on the hill has washed down onto the road below, this was because t

stopping it, the local council have now put gravel on the hill (i2-1) and planted (i2-2) trees

good solution to the problem, there is now no problem and the issue is fixed. I can see in

recovery of this part of the landscape. Planting more trees is always a good idea to fixing a pr



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