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=**__The Five Kingdoms of the Deciduous Forest__**= //By: Natalie F. and Cohen P//

Kingdom Monera
The Temperate deciduous forest has many different monerans living in the soil, on trees, even inside other animals bodies. //Enterobacter agglomerans// //Clostridium butyricum// //Bacillus//
 * Bacteria**

Kingdom Protist
Kingdom Protist includes many, more complex, single celled organisms. It is also home to a small number of simple multi-cellular organisms. Paramecium (//Paramecium aurelia//) Euglena (Euglena gracilis)
 * Protozoans**
 * Algae**

Kingdom Fungi
The fungi kingdom is home to many types of mushrooms and molds. Most fungi are multi-cellular. There are no members of this kingdom with chlorophyll. Downey Mildew (//Peronospora destructor)// Bracket fungi (//Fomitopsis pinicola)// Tawney Milkcap mushroom (//Lactarius deliciosus//)
 * Threadlike**
 * Club**
 * Sack**

Kingdom Plant
The Temperate Deciduous forest houses many varieties of plant life. These life forms include vascular plants and many species of trees. Carpet Moss //(Mnium hornum//) Lady Fern (//Athyrium felix femmina//) Clover (//Trifolium repens//) Red Oak (//Quercus bicolor//) Hickory (//Carya myristicaeformis//) Sugar Maple (//Acer buergeranum//)
 * Vascular Plants**
 * Trees**

Kingdom Animal
The temperate deciduous forest is home to many animal species. Along with the many vertebrates there is a very large population of invertebrates.

**Invertebrates**
These include animals **without** a backbone. Ground Beetle (//Varies Coleoptera//) Ant (//Lasius alienus//) Wolf Spider (//Rhabidosa rabida)// Earthworm (//Lubricus terrestris)//
 * Insects**
 * Worms**

Vertebrates
These include animals with a backbone. Gray tree frog (//Hyla versicolor)// Box Turtle (//Terrapene ornate)// Garter Snake (//Elapoidea sundevalii)// Goldfinch (//Cartri itis)// Cardinal (//Carcai itis)// Red-tailed hawk (//Buteo jamaicensis)// Barn owl (//Tyto alba)// Raven (//Corvus corax//) Rabbit (//Oryctolagus cuniculus)// Deer (//Odocoileus virginianus)// Fat dormouse (//Glis glis)// Fox (//Vulpes vulpes)// Bear (//Ursus horriblis)// Cougar (//Felis concolor)// Skunk (//Mephitis mephits)// Squirrel (//Spermophilus atricapillus)// = = =__Relationships__= There are four types of relationships in the deciduous forest. These include commensalism, parasitism, mutualism, and predator-prey. In commensalism one organism benifits and the other is not affected. An example of commesalism in the deciduous forest is the relationship between the orchid and a tree. An orchid benifits from the tree but the tree is not harmed nor helped. In parasitism one organism benifits at the expense of the other. One example of this is the relationship between weeds and other plants. The weeds take all of the plants food and nutrients eventually killing the other plant. In the relationship mutualism both of the organisms benifit. An example of mutualism is the lichen. In a lichen there are two organisms, algae and fungi. The algae has the ability to produce food by photosynthesis. The fungi does not. Therefore the algae provides food for the fungi and the fungi provides protection and a home for the algae. If you take either one out of a lichen the lichen will die. The last relationship is Predator-prey. In this relationship one organism is the predator (the one who eats the prey) and the other is the prey (the one who gets eaten by the predator). An example of this is the relationship of a platypus and a caterpillar. The owl(predator) eats the mouse (prey).
 * Amphibians**
 * Reptiles**
 * Birds**
 * Mammals**

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