Biodiversity

1. Ecuador is tiny but very diverse in vegetations. The most types of its vegetation is found in the rainforest especially rainforest, more so the hilly forest where rainfall flooding or river water level flooding does not occur. The forest has an average height of between 25 to 30 m, and beneath tall trees are growth of diverse epiphytes and vines (Bendix, 2013). A similar case is that of Vietnam, with the northern part being on the edge of tropical climatic region. The region is rich in vegetation with more than 1500 woody plants species in that country and many species of herbaceous plants and woody vides (International, B. P. U., 2007). In essence, the two countries have open and dense forests , brush land ,savannas and bamboo covering major parts of the country especially Vietnam. Canada on the other hand, has the major part of land less covered by vegetation such as the Arctic Tundra which has low temperatures in summer and cold soils thus short season of plant growth. It has variation in vegetation occurring in boreal forest biome.

 

2. Canada and Russia have huge lands which are in arctic tundra areas. The landscape is mostly bare and frozen much periods of the year including soils that are very cold. These cold temperatures make it difficult for plants to grow which means that vegetation is limited to few grasses, shrubs and mosses. Canada is more biologically diverse than Russia especially when it comes to vegetations. Canada has more mountains or plains especially in the west while Russia has more broad plains. Canada receives 17 percent more rainfall than Russia (Mayhew, 2015).
3. Biological diversity rank
4. Florida
5. Washington
6. Idaho
7. Wyoming
8. Montana

This rank is based on the distribution of species of plants and animals derived from Natural Serve Central Databases (States of the Union, 2002).

4. Major land-based biome
5. Australia- deserts and Xeric Shrub lands
6. Chad- desert and tropical lands
7. Dominica- wet forests
8. Egypt- deserts and Xeric Shrub lands
9. Estonia- Taiga coniferous forest
10. Indonesia- Dry forest lands
11. Kazakhstan –Palearctic deserts and Xeric Shrub lands
12. Saudi Arabia- deserts and Xeric Shrub lands
13. Tanzania- Tropical grasslands

 

References

 

 Mayhew, S. (2015). A dictionary of geography. Oxford [u.a.: Oxford Univ. Press.

Bendix, J. (2013). Ecosystem services, biodiversity and environmental change in a tropical mountain ecosystem of South Ecuador. Berlin: Springer.

International, B. P. U. (2007). Vietnam ecology & nature protection handbook. S.l.: Intl Business Pubns Usa.

States of the Union,(2002). Ranking America’s Biodiversity. Retrieved from: http://www.natureserve.org/library/stateofunions.pdf