翻訳と辞書
Words near each other
・ Inman Park-Moreland Historic District
・ Inman Report
・ Inman Square
・ Inman Township
・ Inman Township, Holt County, Nebraska
・ Inman Township, Otter Tail County, Minnesota
・ Inman Valley, South Australia
・ Inman, Kansas
・ Inman, Nebraska
・ Inman, South Carolina
・ Inman, Virginia
・ Inmans, California
・ Inmantec
・ Inmara Tibisay Henrriquez Gonzalez
・ InMarket
Inland rainforest
・ Inland Residential Properties Trust
・ Inland Retail Property Fund
・ Inland Revenue
・ Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore
・ Inland Revenue Department
・ Inland Revenue Department (Hong Kong)
・ Inland Revenue Department (New Zealand)
・ Inland Revenue Ordinance
・ Inland Revenue Repeal Act 1870
・ Inland Revenue Staff Federation
・ Inland saline aquaculture
・ Inland salt marsh
・ Inland Sea
・ Inland sea (geology)


Dictionary Lists
翻訳と辞書 辞書検索 [ 開発暫定版 ]
スポンサード リンク

Inland rainforest : ウィキペディア英語版
Inland rainforest

The inland rainforest,〔Northern Wetbelt - University of Northern British Columbia http://wetbelt.unbc.ca/〕 also known as the inland temperate rainforest in the classification system of the WWF, is a temperate rainforest in the Central Interior of British Columbia. It is part of the Interior Cedar Hemlock (ICH) zone of the biogeoclimatic zones system developed by the BC Ministry of Forests, in the Rocky Mountain Trench. One of the richest parts of this wet belt lies east of the city of Prince George and nearly a thousand kilometres (600 miles) east of the coastal rainforests. The oldest and most diverse parts of the forest are typically found on northeasterly aspect wet toe slopes, with Western Red Cedar (''Thuja plicata'') trees over 1,000 years old and undisturbed forest stands much older than that. Some of these toe-slope benches were cleared in the 1960s to develop the Yellowhead Highway, with the added result that most of the remainder became easily accessible to industrial logging and recreation, and more recently to research and interpretation. As a consequence there are only a handful of the best sites left undisturbed in 2008.
In 1987, a science-based conservation group ''Save-The-Cedar League'' was formed. With the establishment of the new University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) in Prince George the 1990s, further research continued to highlight the significance of the ICH zone east of the city. The arrival of a defoliating insect outbreak, the Hemlock Looper, ''Lambdina fiscellaria fiscellaria'', resulted in increased salvage logging of old cedar stands along the Yellowhead Highway. This was reduced by the province’s chief forester in the early 2000s as the appreciation of non-timber values of the zone began to be realized and as the Mountain Pine Beetle catastrophe spread across the Interior Plateau to the west and large scale salvage logging moved in that direction. As the Mountain Pine Beetle wave passes, attention is returning to the mountain wet zones. Some of this came to a head in 2006 with the development of an old growth forest trail by the nearby small community of Dome Creek in the richest site yet found, a place that was also scheduled to be logged. The resulting socio-economic and ecological issues were investigated in a documentary film, ''Block 486''.
==Climate change effects==
The Interior Cedar Hemlock (ICH) zone is of particular significance with respect to climate change. Climatic warming projections suggest that by mid century or soon afterwards, this location may be at the southerly extent of the ICH.〔Northern Hydrometeorology
Environmental Science Program, UNBC; Columbia Mountains Institute of Applied Ecology - Climate Change〕 The ICH zone will also have spread throughout much of the Prince George area and farther north. The Rocky Mountain Trench east of Prince George therefore offers the last best chance to preserve some of the rare 'Tier-1' ICH sites.

抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)
ウィキペディアで「Inland rainforest」の詳細全文を読む



スポンサード リンク
翻訳と辞書 : 翻訳のためのインターネットリソース

Copyright(C) kotoba.ne.jp 1997-2016. All Rights Reserved.