tamarack. These trees are the dominant plant species of the taiga. Some other types are alder, birch, and aspen. Trees of the taiga are typically shallow rooted due to the poor soils, the rocky conditions, and the discontinuous permafrost. The plants living in this biome have had to make adaptations. These adaptations consist of needle-like leaves to prevent water loss, conical shape to help shed snow that may weight down and break the branches, and their evergreen color to help photosynthesis to occur. The other types of life found in the forest are that of animals. Some examples of those are lynx, weasel family, snowshoe varying hare, red squirrel, lemmings, voles, elk or wapiti, moose, beaver, wood warblers, finches, sparrows, and ravens. These are just a few of the animals found in this biome.Another biome of the world is the chaparral. Its found in only 5 places in the world. They are Southern California, South Africa, Western Australia, Southern Europe, and South America. It has mild rainy winters and hot dry summers. The annual rainfall is about 12-24 inches. In this climate, vegetation such as tall bushes and small trees with dark green leaves exist. Most plants have small, hard leaves that do not fall off in the winter. The leaves are covered with a hard waxy covering, which helps them to burn in hot fire more easily. An adaptation that many plants have in the chaparral is they have an adaptation to fire, which means they actually need fire as a part of their lives. When a forest fire occurs it my kill of more branches but new sprouts and plants grow from the burnt forest. The varieties of the flora are California Lilacs, Scrub Oak, Toyon or Christmas Holly, Mountain Mahogany, Bush Poppy, Holly-leaved Cherry, Redberry, and Sugarbush. This is just some of the vegetation. Some of the animals consist of squirrels, rabbits, coyotes, mule deer, opossums, raccoons, skunks, foxes, bobcats, rattlesnakes, lizards, fr...
