Boreal Biome Deck (in progress)

2017 – (See Cards | Deck Info | Purchase)…

This set was designed by Jonathan DeMoor and Elly Knight to highlight boreal forest ecosystems. The boreal biome encircles the northern pole of the planet north of the 50th parallel and is found in Canada, Russia, and the Nordic countries. Note that the purchasable and downloadable versions focus on three different terrain designations (Upland, Lowland, and Anthropogenic) and are not compatible with other Phylo decks.

Cooper’s Hawk

Buteo platypterus
Scale 8 Diat: carnivore , Hierachy 3
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Animalia, Chordata, Aves

7 POINTS

Play: Cooper’s hawk has a MOVE of 2.

Fact: Cooper’s hawks belong to a family of hawks whose short, rounded wings help them to fly quickly through the forest.

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Graphic by Jonathan DeMoorwww.borealisimages.ca/
The broad-winged hawk (Buteo platypterus) is a small hawk of the genus Buteo. During the summer, some subspecies are distributed over eastern North America, as far west as British Columbia and Texas; they then migrate south to winter in the neotropics from Mexico down to southern Brazil.[2] Other subspecies are all-year residents on Caribbean islands.[citation […] read more

Wood Frog

Lithobates sylvaticus
Scale 6 Diat: carnivore , Hierachy 3
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Animalia, Chordata, Amphibia

4 POINTS

Play: The Wood frog has a MOVE of 2

Fact: The wood frog is named for its migration to upland wooded areas where it hibernates for the winter under the leaf litter.

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Graphic by Julia Schonfield
The wood frog (Lithobates sylvaticus or Rana sylvatica[2]) has a broad distribution over North America, extending from the southern Appalachians to the boreal forest with several notable disjunct populations including lowland eastern North Carolina. The wood frog has garnered attention by biologists over the last century because of its freeze tolerance, relatively great degree of […] read more

Black Fly

Simulium spp.
Scale 4 Diat: herbivore , Hierachy 2
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Animalia, Arthropoda, Insecta

2 POINTS

Play: Can eat mammals. Has a MOVE of 2

Fact: Add insult to injury. When black fly bites you, it uses your blood to reproduce and make more black flies. Only females bite.

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Graphic by Fyn Kynd Photographywww.flickr.com/photos/79452129@N02/
Simulium is a genus of black flies, which may transmit diseases such as onchocerciasis (river blindness). It is a large genus with several hundred species, and 41 subgenera.[1] The flies are pool feeders. Their saliva, which contains anticoagulants, a number of enzymes and histamine, is mixed with the blood, preventing clotting until it is ingested […] read more

Black Fly

Simulium spp.
Scale 4 Diat: herbivore , Hierachy 2
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Animalia, Arthropoda, Insecta

2 POINTS

Play Can eat mammals. Has a MOVE of 2

Fact: Boreal biologists often recite the following zen koan to maintain sanity: “Time’s fun when you’re having flies” -Kermit the Frog.

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Graphic by Elly Knighttwitter.com/ellycknight
Simulium is a genus of black flies, which may transmit diseases such as onchocerciasis (river blindness). It is a large genus with several hundred species, and 41 subgenera.[1] The flies are pool feeders. Their saliva, which contains anticoagulants, a number of enzymes and histamine, is mixed with the blood, preventing clotting until it is ingested […] read more

Mosquitoes

Cules, Anopheles, & Aedes spp.
Scale 3 Diat: herbivore , Hierachy 2
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Animalia, Arthropoda, Insecta

2 POINTS

Play: Can eat mammals. Has a MOVE of 2.

Fact: The food chain in the boreal forest would collapse without the hordes of mosquitoes that provide food for many mammals.

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Graphic by Donald Solick
Anopheles /əˈnɒfᵻliːz/[1] (Greek anofelís: “useless”[2]) is a genus of mosquito first described and named by J. W. Meigen in 1818.[3] About 460 species are recognised; while over 100 can transmit human malaria, only 30–40 commonly transmit parasites of the genus Plasmodium, which cause malaria in humans in endemic areas. Anopheles gambiae is one of the […] read more

Mosquitoes

Culex, Anopheles, & Aedes spp.
Scale 3 Diat: herbivore , Hierachy 2
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Animalia, Arthropoda, Insecta

2 POINTS

Play: Can eat mammals. Has a MOVE of 2

Fact The clouds of mosquitoees in the boreal forest are due to the abundance of wetlands, which mosquitoes require for breeding.

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Graphic by Jonathan DeMoorwww.borealisimages.ca/
Culex is a genus of mosquitoes, several species of which serve as vectors of one or more important diseases of birds, humans and other animals. The diseases they vector include arbovirus infections such as West Nile virus, Japanese encephalitis, or St. Louis encephalitis, but also filariasis, and avian malaria. They occur worldwide except for the […] read more