Jademanatee's+Vietnam+Ecosystem

Jademanatee's Vietnam Forest Ecosystem Introduction My name is “jademanatee,” I go to the [|Amigos School] in Cambridge, MA. While the rest of my class was going around on different field trips, testing and observing 4 ecosystems in the Boston area, I was at a [|school in Vietnam]. My family was visiting the country for a semester (5 months) and I lived and went to school in Saigon. One week, as a class, we took a trip to the highlands. That is why I’m teaching you about the forest ecosystem in the Mountains of Dalat, Vietnam, through this wiki.

Location Vietnam is a tropical country in Southeast Asia.The city areas of Vietnam are all very polluted, but in the forest it is much cleaner. When I was at School in Vietnam, we took a field trip to Dalat. My class got there by plane which took just under one hour. Vietnam is a country with a lot of tourism. That meant that we spent more of our time going to museums, hiking through forests, ziplining, and eating at nice restaurants. There are two [|seasons in Southern Vietnam] : one, the rainy season; the other, the dry season. In the rainy season it downpours for about one hour every day then stops. The dry season is always dry. Even when it’s rainy, the air is still 80ºF or higher.

Biotic Life Although Vietnam’s ecosystem was so harmed by war, there is still some [|natural life]. Coffee and mulberry are some of the more famous plants in Vietnam, but like everywhere else, there is also grass. There are animals, like [|silk worms], horses and cats that eat the producers. Some of the primary consumers are then eaten by the rats, lizards, and birds. Those animals are then eaten by others, such as snakes, foxes, and bears. Whenever any of the animals die, they are decomposed by the bacteria, snails, mushrooms, and slugs. To see my ecosystem web, click here. Just like all energy pyramids, the plants get the most energy, through the sun. The smaller animals (primary consumers) get a small amount of the energy from the plants they eat. When the secondary consumers eat the primary consumers not much of the energy is transferred. At the top of the energy pyramid, with the least amount of energy are the tertiary consumers.

Summary The ecosystem of Vietnam is a very complicated and complex ecosystem. Much of the area that used to be natural is replaced by different plantations. Some are: [|rubber tree] “forests,” coffee, and miles of greenhouses filled with flowers. The people of Dalat use all their natural land to help them. They make roads for tourists that run through the forests and terraces on the hillside to improve the farming. The people of Vietnam see their land as more of a resource to bring them wealth than a natural beauty to be preserved.

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