what is one plant and one animal that can be found in a deciduous forest?

Question

I need to find one plant and one animal that can only be found in a deciduous forest.
Anybody know?
Also, what are two different organisms that compete for the same resources in this biome?

Answer 1

Shagbark Hickory (Carya ovata) and the Eastern Gray Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis).

These compete with the Shellbark hickory (Carya laciniosa) and the Fox Squirrel (Sciurus niger).

It would be easy to write a dozen pages of this. Basically any forest that turns fall colors and drops it's leaves in the winter is a deciduous forest by definition, so any of the thousands of plants from a forest that lose their leaves would work for an answer, and any animal that eats mainly that type of plant (or a predator that eats mainly animals of that type) would work for your answer.

Just avoid using any animals found in the tropics like the Everglades or in coniferous (pine, spruce, fir etc) forests like are common in the Pacific Northwest and mountains and you'll be pretty close to a right answer.

Answer 2

The Encyclopedia Britannica reports that
Snails, slugs, insects, and spiders are common inhabitants

and Oaks, beeches, birches, chestnuts are among the trees found here...

for more examples see the source -- http://library.eb.com/eb/article-9029699

A discussion of two different organisms competing for the same resources can be found in this article on Competition - Competitive Exclusion. It mentions the nuthatch and the brown creeper as competing in this biome.
http://www.marietta.edu/~biol/biomes/competition.htm


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Answer 3

American Bald Eagle American Black Bear Coyote Duckbill Platypus Eastern Chipmunk European Red Squirrel Fat Dormouse Least Weasel White-tailed Deer Aspic Viper Gray Squirrel Raccoon Fox Wild Boar Cardinal Goshawk Turkey Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Spring Peeper Rat Snake

Answer 4

Brackish fern, white birch, white oak, red squirrel, black bear, white-tailed deer. You must live in a tropical zone. I live near alot of deciduous forest, do I know what I am talking about.

Answer 5

I think it would be American Beech tree and the American Bald Eagle.

Answer 6

Now, now!
I'm not doing your homework for you! ;)