第九集桧木森林共生现象.docVIP

第九集 檜木森林的共生現象 大片頭30”Forest Story of Taiwan Within the forestit is actually not as quiet as the naked eye sees it Organisms both depend on and compete with one another for survival This is Yuanyang Lake Nature Reserve // situated on 110 Forest Road off the Northern Horizontal Highway As the towering cypress trees strive to surviveat the same timemany organisms are also quietly and passively // marking their own territories within the forest 小片頭：片名字幕：Symbiosis Within the Cypress Forest Situated at 1670 metres above sea levelbeing influenced by its topography and the north-easterly monsoonYuanyang Lake has a high level of precipitation and humidity It also possesses a vast area of natural and structurally complete // yellow cypress (扁柏) forest As rain fallsrainwater will pass through the cypress’ canopy leaves and branchesand finally penetrate into the soil As rainfall stopsthe bottom layer of the forest begins to stir Turning over a piece of fallen leafa snail is slowly moving around The forest’s humid and dim environment // is a favourite habitat for snails Within the forestplants which cannot survive on their own will live off other trees The humid environment of the cypress forest // has provided a suitable habitat for the growth of many invertebrates It has also nurtured many epiphytes // as they live on other trees to obtain nutrients Many fern and orchidaceae plants are common examples of plantswhich live on tree trunks and branches for survival and growth To be defined as an epiphytefirstly the plant has to be one which lives on a tree // and does not touch the groundand secondly is that it does not extract nutrients from its host On the other handparasitic plants are different in that // they will extract nutrients from their hosts Therefore while epiphytes need to evolve // so that they can produce their own nutrients for growththis is not necessary in the case of parasitic plantsbecause some of them will grow roots deep into the bark // of th