EE-Link's Endangered Species Information on endangered species in both the United States and throughout the world. The African Great Lakes region is composed of a variety of ecosystems with significant biodiversity. Environmental News Network Daily news, calender of environmental events, and other topical information. Global Warming Site Areas at this site include the climate system, impacts and action as they relate to the greenhouse effect. But if you look beyond the apparent emptiness of the landscape, you will learn that the High Plains ecosystem, like all ecosystems, contains its own unique riches.
Many native animals live underground as a way to adapt to the harsh arid climate.
Introduction to Biomes 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 Living Edens Nearly three million years ago, a massive explosion tore apart an enormous statovolcano in Eastern Africa's Great Rift Valley to form the Ngorongoro Crater, one of the true wonders of the world. Today, the Ngorongoro Crater is a microcosm of African life enclosed in an unique place.