Ecosystem is a terminus used to describe the livelihood and nonliving thing that make up a geographical domain . A terrestrial ecosystem is simply land - based . The other kind of ecosystem is sleep together as an aquatic ecosystem . There are four types of terrestrial ecosystems : taiga , grassland , tundra and temperate deciduous woods .
Temperate Deciduous Forest
The temperate deciduous biome occupies a small destiny of southerly Ontario and a large portion of the eastern part of the United States . The main plant species in this biome are broad - leaved deciduous trees and the precipitation is an average of 28 inch per year . The soils in this neighborhood are fertile and very easily converted to agrarian use .
Grasslands
Grasslands are country which are dominated by grasses with few shrubs and even fewer trees . There are two types of grasslands , the tropic grassland or savanna and the temperate grassland . The condition savanna is used to key grassland which has a few spread out trees and they are located in Australia , Africa , South America and India . Temperate grasslands have only pasture and no trees . They are located in Hungary , Argentina , Uruguay , the steppe of the former Soviet Union and the prairies and plains of Central North America .
Taiga
The taiga or boreal biome is the largest in the world . The condition taiga is the Russian Scripture for forest , and this biome stretches from North America through Eurasia . The taiga winter are very moth-eaten while the summers are humid , warm and rainy . The dominant tree diagram in the taiga are cone-bearing or evergreen tree diagram which have a waxy bed that gives them some protection from the frigidness and from drying out . The main seasons are wintertime and summertime while the spring and fall season are very abbreviated . There are few plant and animal species in the taiga , in comparison to the other biomes , due to the unfriendly condition .
Tundra
The tundra biome is the insensate of all the biomes . It is known for its Brobdingnagian treeless plains , super abject temperatures , miserable hurriedness and frost - laden landscapes . The term tundra is from the Finnish word tunturi , which means treeless plain . There are two types of tundra , the Arctic tundra and the Alpine tundra . The Arctic tundra is locate in the northerly hemisphere while the Alpine tundra is turn up on the top of mountains throughout the worldly concern where shape mimic that found in the northerly hemisphere .
Threats
There are threats to the tellurian ecosystems mainly due to the activities of man . The United Nations Environment Programme ( UNEP ) report that in the years between 1990 and 2005 , deforestation average about 13 million hectares annually . The reputation states that we are losing the equivalent weight of 18,000 soccer playing flying field daily .
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