You can use fall leaf color to help identify different tree species. Look for these leaf colors on the trees in your neighborhood: (click on the tree species to see the tree shape, bark, fruit, and leaf shape.). 1  Oaks: red, brown or russet. 2  Hickories: golden bronze. 3  Dogwood: purple-red. 4  Birch: bright yellow. 5  paper birch.
Wetlands and people Wetlands and society Wetlands typically offer a wide variety of benefits to society and they have played a central role in human development throughout history. Many great civilizations depended on them, including the Maya, Inca and Aztec in Latin America, the Khmer in Asia, the Marsh Arabs in Mesopotamia and those of the Nile
It is important to preserve all types of biomes as each houses many unique forms of life. However, the continued heavy exploitation of certain biomes, such as the forest and aquatic, may have more severe implications. Forests are important as they are home to the most diverse biotic communties in the world.quatic biomes are probably the most important of all the biomes. Their medium, water, is a major natural resource. Water is the basis of life, it supports life, and countless species live in it for all or part of their lives. Freshwater biomes supply us with our drinking water and water for crop irrigation.