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Forests in Poland
and Europe.
Characteristics and
management.
Forests in the entire Europe considerably differ from
each other, which is the result of diffrent cilmates.
Parts of Scandinavia north of Artic Circle contain of tundra,
while there’s taiga on it’s central part. Territories south of
it are overgrown with temperate broadleaf and mixed forests.
The mediterranean regions are full of evergreen shrubs.
Tundra
Tundra’s a biome, where trees growth is hindred by low
temperatures and ashort growing season, in Europe
located north of the Artic Circle.
It’s overgrown by moss, dwarf birches, crow- and black
bearberries and
inhabited by reindeers, artic foxer, hares and various
rodents.
Taiga
Taiga is a coinferous forest consisting mostly of pines,
spruces and larches. It covers most of the Scandinavian
Peninsula and most of the Finland’s territories. The
local fauna consists of mooses, bears, dears and
squirells. There are numerous insects, rodents and
birds.
Temperate forests
Temperate forests, located between southern costs of
Baltic Sea and the Alps and on some parts of Balkan
Peninsula, are the biggest european biome There’re
three kinds of them: broadleaf (oaks, beeches, maples,
birches), mixed and coniferous (pines, spruces, firs).
The wildlife here includes rich fur bearing animals such
as mink, silver fox, lynx, sable, and beaver.
Machia
Maquis is a scrubland vegetation of the Mediterranean
region, composed primarily of leathery, broad-leaved
evergreen shrubs or small trees like myrtles, laurels,
olives and figs. In ancien times there used to be forests
consisting mostly of oaks, but they were cut down.
Ways of protecting the environment
•Strict Nature Reserve
• Natural Monument
or Feature
• National Park
•Habitat/Species
•Management Area
• Protected Landscape
•Wilderness Area
Sources & materials
YPEF booklet - http://ypef.eu/ypef_eu/files/YPEF_Educational_material_2016.pdf
„Puls życia” and „Puls ziemi” textbooks by Nowa Era publishing house
Slides 1 background- http://www.discovertheforest.org/
Tundra picture- https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tundra#/media/File:Greenland-tundra(js)1.jpg
Taiga picture - https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tajga#/media/File:Urskogsrest_Tand%C3%B6vala.JPG
Forest picture – https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bialowieza_National_Park_in_Poland0029.JPG
Vegetation in europe map - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vegetation_Europe.png
Machia picture - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Macchia01.jpg
Logo Natura 2000 - https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natura_2000
Presentations done
Natalia Paulus class 2a
Zachariasz Kowalski class 2a
Jakub Dworczak class 2b
Niepubliczne Gimnazjum dla Młodzieży w Lubsku
Guardian: Izabela Pasicka