Faculty Advisor
Woods, Carrie
Area of Study
Science and Mathematics
Publication Date
Summer 2016
Abstract
Habitat heterogeneity plays a key role in supporting biodiversity in both animals and plant life. More diverse environments provide more exploitable niches across gradients in temperature, humidity, light availability, and countless other variables at the landscape and regional scales. In specimens of Acer macrophylum in the Hoh Rainforest, we found significant variation in temperature and relative humidity across particular crown zones, and certain epiphyte species were found to distribute according to such microclimate variation.
Recommended Citation
Wood, Jeremy, "Microclimate Variation and Epiphyte Distribution in Acer Macrophylum" (2016). Summer Research. 285.
https://soundideas.pugetsound.edu/summer_research/285
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Publisher
University of Puget Sound
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