What animals eat the alpine phacelia?

1. How do animals survive in the Alpine?
2. What is the keystone species in the alpine tundra?
3. What is Alpine phacelia?
4. Which animal is protected in Alpine region?
5. What is the apex predator of the tundra?
6. What are 3 indicator animals in the tundra?
7. What is the food web in the tundra?
8. What does the Alpine look like?
9. What is an Alpine landscape?
10. What 2 problems do Alpine animals have to deal with?
11. What threatens the Alpine tundra?
12. Are there predators in the Swiss Alps?
13. What animals eat caribou in the tundra?
14. Are walruses apex predator?
15. What eats a polar bear?

How do animals survive in the Alpine?

Alpine animals adapt to the cold by hibernating, migrating to warmer areas, or insulating their bodies with layers of fat and fur. Their bodies tend to have shorter legs, tails, and ears, in order to reduce heat loss.

What is the keystone species in the alpine tundra?

Keystone. The keystone species of the Alpine tundra are the Arctic Fox and the caribou. If you remove the arctic fox, caribou levels increase to high levels, plants get devoured quickly, and everything starves.

What is Alpine phacelia?

Alpine Phacelia is a tubular, bell-shaped or bowl-shaped flower. It can be blue, violet, or white in color. ... The flowers grow in clusters of 10 to 100 flowers around the top of a straight stem, which can grow to be 1 to 2 feet high. Several stems will grow from one long taproot.

Which animal is protected in Alpine region?

Alpine Ibex -- Capra ibex - Steinbock (German), Bouquetin (French), Stambecco (Italian) The Alpine Ibex is a type of mountain goat with long curved horns. It lives high up in the Alps where it has a diet of lichen, grass and herbs. Having been hunted almost to extinction, the Alpine Ibex is now a protected species.

What is the apex predator of the tundra?

Few frogs or lizards live in the tundra. Foxes, lemmings, Arctic hares and Arctic owls live in the tundra. Wolves are the top predators.

What are 3 indicator animals in the tundra?

Animals found in the tundra include the musk ox, the Arctic hare, the polar bear, the Arctic fox, the caribou and the snowy owl. Many animals that live in the tundra, like the caribou and the semipalmated plover, migrate to warmer climates during the winter.

What is the food web in the tundra?

Herbivores (primary consumers) such as pikas, musk oxen, caribou, lemmings, and arctic hares make up the next rung. Omnivores and carnivores (secondary consumers) such as arctic foxes, brown bears, arctic wolves, and snowy owls top the web.

What does the Alpine look like?

Alpine biomes are found on the great mountain ranges around the world including the Andes, Alps and Rocky Mountains. Alpine biomes are usually at an altitude of around 10,000 feet high or more and lie just below the snow lines of mountains. The general climate of an Alpine biome is very cold, icy, snowy and windy.

What is an Alpine landscape?

Alpine environments are defined as being cold, windy, and snowy, and characterized by low growing season temperatures and a very short frost-free period.

What 2 problems do Alpine animals have to deal with?

Alpine animals have to deal with two types of problems: the cold and too much high UV wavelengths. This is because there is less atmosphere to filter UV rays from the sun. There are only warm blooded animals in the Alpine biome, although there are insects.

What threatens the Alpine tundra?

The oil, gas, and mining industries can disrupt fragile tundra habitats. Drilling wells can thaw permafrost, while heavy vehicles and pipeline construction can damage soil and prevent vegetation from returning. This activity also increases the risk of toxic spills.

Are there predators in the Swiss Alps?

Switzerland, like so many other places across Europe, devastated its wildlife during the last couple of centuries. Today, however, many populations have rebounded and continue to do so, allowing predators and prey alike to return to the Alps.

What animals eat caribou in the tundra?

Bears prey on caribou during spring, summer and fall. Golden eagles take young calves during the early summer, and lynx are able to kill calves in the fall when caribou migrate into forested areas. When snow is deep, wolverines are sometimes able to kill caribou. Humans have hunted caribou for many thousands of years.

Are walruses apex predator?

Humans sometimes live by hunting other animals for food and materials such as fur, sinew, and bone, as in this walrus hunt in the Arctic, but their status as apex predators is debated.

What eats a polar bear?

Adult polar bears have no natural predators except other polar bears. Cubs less than one year old sometimes are prey to wolves and other carnivores. Newborn cubs may be cannibalized by malnourished mothers or adult male polar bears.