Well, the problem in North Carolina is one that many communities face. With good economic conditions, there's a lot of rapid economic growth, and so many communities are finding that their forests and their farms and their pastures are being converted into subdivisions and shopping centers. And those shopping centers have a lot of impervious cover, and that produces the stormwater runoff. A coalition of 23 local governments and businesses dedicated to providing environmentally responsible water management services in the Neuse Basin. Students will demonstrate their understanding and knowledge of river and stream biomes, using the Neuse River as an example, by researching various aspects of freshwater ecology and assembling a visual, multi-dimensional mural of the river's natural history from source to mouth.
Biomes are the major regional groupings of plants and animals discernible at a global scale.
Their distribution patterns are strongly correlated with regional climate patterns and identified according to the climax vegetation type. However, a biome is composed not only of the climax vegetation, but also of associated successional communities, persistent subclimax communities, fauna, and soils. The biome concept embraces the idea of community, of interaction among vegetation, animal populations, and soil. Information on river and stream biomes can be found at this link . Many species of plants live in freshwater stream and river ecosystems.