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The Appalachian temperate rainforest or Appalachian cloud forest is located in the southern Appalachian Mountains of the eastern United States and is among the most biodiversetemperate regions in the world.[5][7] Centered primarily around Southern Appalachian spruce–fir forests between southwestern Virginia and southwestern North Carolina, it has a cool, mild climate with highly variable temperature and precipitation patterns linked to elevation.[8][9] The temperate rainforest as a whole has a mean annual temperature near 7 °C (45 °F) and annual precipitation exceeding 140 centimeters (55 in), though the highest peaks can reach more than 200 centimeters (79 in) and are frequently shrouded in fog.[8][10]
Humans have shaped the rainforest environment for the last 12,000 years through activities such as hunting and agriculture.[16] These impacts grew following European colonization, which brought about significant changes, including the decline of native populations, land use alterations, and the introduction of non-native species.[16] By the 1880s, industrialization reached the region, leaving the forest devastated by mining, logging and the introduction of destructive invasive species, examples being chestnut blight and the balsam woolly adelgid.[16][17][18][19] Conservation efforts such as the establishment of national forests and parks have helped preserve the ecosystem, however, it continues to face ongoing threats such as wildfire and climate change.[19][20][21]
Climate
The Appalachian temperate rainforest has a cool and mild climate and meets the criteria of temperate rainforests identified by Alaback.[1] Temperature and precipitation are extremely variable with elevation, with rainforest conditions usually but not always concentrated around spruce–fir forests at higher elevations.[2][22] These spruce–fir forests have an annual mean temperature of 6.5 °C (43.7 °F) and a growing season mean (May–September) of 13.5 °C (56.3 °F), though this is likely somewhat cooler than the average across the entire rainforest ecosystem.[2] It has annual precipitation above 140 centimetres (55 in), a cool summer, typical transient snow in winter, mean annual temperature near 7 °C (45 °F), and summer rainfall is above 10% of overall precipitation, classifying it as a perhumid temperate rainforest.[1][2]
Annual precipitation varies significantly within the mountainous terrain, with the highest precipitation in southwest North Carolina and the lowest near Asheville and in northeast Tennessee.[23] High altitudes hosting spruce-fir forest receive than 2,000 millimeters (79 in) of precipitation while large swaths of lower elevation rainforest receive more than 1,525 millimeters (60 in).[8][10] This pattern is primarily influenced by upslope and downslope flow of southerly winds.[23] The orographic effect causes rainfall when moist air originating in the Gulf of Mexico and western Atlantic Ocean is forced upwards by the mountains.[23][24] Winter and spring months see a gradient precipitation pattern, with higher rainfall concentrated in the south.[23] Weak upslope air flow in summer brings more precipitation to the highest elevations, while autumn is typically driest with occasional intense rainfall from tropical systems.[23]
In addition to the increased precipitation from orographic lift, cloud cover keeps the rate of water loss low due to minimal evapotranspiration.[8] High elevation forests are immersed in clouds on 65% of growth-season days, leading some sources to describe the temperate rainforest as a cloud forest.[8] Water intercepted by clouds accounts for 25% to 50% of annual precipitation, which is a high rate.[2][8] For comparison, in the boreal rainforests of Eastern Canada, fog contributes only 5 to 8% of annual precipitation.[2] According to a tentative classification advocated by DellaSala, Alaback, Spribille, Wehrden, and Nauman in 2011, high-elevation temperate rainforest regions in Central Appalachia could be interpreted as "a southerly extension of Appalachian boreal rainforests from Eastern Canada", although this interpretation requires further study.[2]
High precipitation levels, moderate year-round temperatures, and diverse terrain enable a wide range of species to survive.[5][7][11] The rainforest is more biodiverse than any temperate region of similar size in the world, with over 19,000 species identified in Great Smoky Mountains National Park alone.[5][7] However, scientists estimate the real number of species may be as high as 100,000 or more.[5] It is also home to many threatened, endangered, and endemic species, including plants, fungi, arthropods, fish, mammals, mollusks, and amphibians.[5][25][26]
In addition to over 100 species of native trees, 1,400 other flowering plants and 500 moss and fern species call the rainforest home.[5][7] These include a diverse array of wildflowers and dozens of fungi-reliant orchid species.[14][30] The rainforest's high humidity supports epiphytic plant species at greater height and diversity than elsewhere in the eastern United States.[15] A wide range of mosses, ferns, and liverworts have been identified as high as 140 feet (43 m) above the forest floor.[15] These include common epiphytes like resurrection fern, the endemic liverwort Bazzania nudicaulis, and some species that are solely terrestrial in the rest of their range including Appalachian rockcap fern, rose moss, and narrow-fruited crisp-moss.[15][31]Lianas are also prevalent, especially in deciduous forest, with Virginia creeper, poison ivy, and various grapevines being the most common.[29]
The wet montane environment supports one of the world's highest diversities of fungi including lichens, sac fungi, molds, and mushrooms.[5][7][34] In total, over 2,300 species have been identified in the area and scientists estimate the actual number may be as high as 20,000.[5][7] Of the species discovered thus far, 800 (40%) are lichens.[34]
History
The Appalachian Mountains began to form 460 million years ago with the collision of tectonic plates, and finished their uplift around 230 million years ago.[11] During the Last Ice Age, ice covered much of northern North America, but the southern Appalachians remained ice-free.[7] This uncovered area acted as a refuge for species that were forced southward. After the ice receded, some species spread back north, but many stayed in the southern Appalachians.[7] Because temperature declines with increased elevation, the varying topography of the mountains forms microclimates that mimic both northern and southern latitudes.[5] This has combined with a relatively stable year-round climate to enable northern and southern species to live in close proximity each other, lending the rainforest its high biodiversity.[5][7]
Pre-colonial
Around 12,000 years ago, Paleo-Indians first settled in the Southern Appalachians, crafting stone projectile points from local materials, indicating their long-term inhabitance.[16] However, evidence for residential activities in the highlands are absent prior to about 7,500 BCE, though the archaeological record does indicate hunting, flintworking, butchering, hideworking, and woodworking in the region.[16] Throughout the Archaic period, Paleo-Indians adopted more advanced technologies such as textiles, basketry, and the atlatl and transitioned from hunter-gatherer activities towards an increasing reliance on fishing and the emergence of agriculture in lowlands. Human activities increased the dispersal of edible plants, including trees, shrubs, grasses, and lianas.[16]
Cultural developments accelerated with the adoption of agriculture in the highlands in the Middle Woodland period, delayed relative to the lowlands by rugged terrain, low population, limited fertile soil, and a shorter growing season.[16] As intensive plant husbandry expanded through the introduction of corn, beans, pumpkin, squash, and tobacco by around 1000 CE, it fostered more complex societies centered around permanent villages in Appalachian river valleys.[16] Meanwhile, human activity shaped the surrounding landscape into a patchwork of towns, farmsteads, fields, and primary forests for hunting and gathering.[16]
Colonial
Following European arrival in the region, native populations faced rapid decline due to both European intrusions and Old World diseases, leading to the disruption and collapse of many American Indian societies.[16] European trade and exploration had further impacts, such as the introduction of iron tools, exotic plants and animals, and increasing conflicts between American Indians and Europeans. Due to depopulation, many abandoned fields were reclaimed by secondary forests.[16] When restrictions on westward European settlement were lifted following the American Revolution, European migration increased and Euro-American communities began to grow.[16] However, the resistance of American Indian groups like the Chickamauga Cherokee delayed expansion into much of the rainforested region until 1790.[16]
Roads were quickly built, and by the early 1800s the US had full control of the region.[16] While valleys were farmed intensively, land use changed little in high-elevations, though European livestock were introduced.[16] Similarly, most industry remained agricultural prior to the 1880s, though some logging and small-scale gold and copper mining began.[16][19] During this period, bounties on predators drove them to near-extinction, bison and elk were extirpated, and trapping decimated fur-yielding species.[16] Moreover, the vast majority of the Cherokee Nation were forced to move from their traditional homeland to Oklahoma during the Trail of Tears.[35] However, about 9,000 members of the tribe continue to live inside the Qualla Boundary, which lies within the rainforest biome.[16][35]
By the 1880s, Appalachia's natural resources had drawn the attention of industrialist Civil War veterans and vacationers from the North, buying up land and dramatically expanding the nascent railway system.[16][19] While Appalachia is famous for its coal, mica mining was far more dominant in rainforested areas, and logging remained generally confined to the valleys along significant rail lines.[16] However, as outside investors bought up growing tracts of land and Appalachia's railroad system matured, increasing swathes of forest were cleared.[16][19] By the 1900s and 1910s, even the spruce-fir forests of Mount Mitchell—the highest peak in the Appalachian Mountains—had begun being logged.[16][19]
Wildfires are a natural ecological process that has occurred within the Appalachian temperate rainforest for millennia.[37] However, fire suppression instituted after European colonization has created two significant issues in the region: a higher risk of "catastrophic wildfires", and declines in the abundance of disturbance-dependent species like Table Mountain pine and woodpeckers.[37][38] After the 2016 Great Smoky Mountains wildfires, the National Park Service put increased effort into controlled burns "to invigorate a species or ecosystem that benefits from fire" and "reduce heavy accumulations of dead wood and brush which under drought conditions could produce catastrophic wildfires that threaten human life and valuable property."[37] Natural wildfire is most frequent during the rainforest's warm summers, when lightning is common.[37][38]
Pollution and climate change
High peaks in the temperate rainforest have some of the highest air pollution of any region in the Eastern United States, with a 1999 study finding sulfate and nitrate deposition 6–20 times higher than lower elevation sites.[39][40] This is primarily due to pollutants from cars and coal plants settling in Appalachian valleys, trapped by the high mountain ridges.[39] However, because this pollution is overwhelmingly deposited through acid fog, it is the wettest (highest) areas that receive the most pollution.[39][41] This deposition often has a pH below 4.0 and sometimes below 3.0, having significant impacts on tree cation concentrations, potentially leading to dangerous nutrient deficiencies.[39][41]
Similarly, anthropogenic climate change will have numerous and varied impacts in the rainforest, which may be difficult to predict. These impacts will likely be felt in the relict high elevation spruce-fir forests that heavily rely on cold temperatures and near-constant fog.[8] Any change in cloud patterns or height could significantly disrupt the cloud-based deposition this forest type relies on for up to 50% of their water budget, forcing them upslope until extirpation.[8][21] However, it has been hpothesized that higher elevations may be more resistant to climactic change.[21] Similarly, climate change is predicted to increase the rate of wildfires and place more stress on existing forests, leading them more susceptible to current threats.[21]
Invasive species
Invasive species pose a significant risk to the landscape of the Appalachian temperate rainforest, with two major introduction events in living memory. First, the chestnut blight emerged in Appalachia in the early 20th century, decimating American chestnut trees, a dominant species in the region.[18] Originally a fungal pathogen introduced from Asia, the blight quickly spread, wiping out vast populations of mature chestnuts and dramatically altering the composition of forests across the Eastern US.[18] While the trees once made up as much as 25% of hardwood forest stands, the American chestnut is now critically endangered and largely extirpated from its natural range.[18]
Similarly, the balsam woolly adelgid was introduced from Europe in the 20th century and devastated fraser fir stands on the rainforest's mountaintops. First discovered on Mount Mitchell in 1957, it quickly spread to all fir populations.[17] Fir mortality in Appalachia rose one-hundred-sixtyfold by 1970, eventually killing two-thirds of adult trees.[17][18] Initial efforts to control the adelgid largely failed, complicating repopulation efforts.[18] Though there are signs of recovery in recent years—such as Clingmans Dome having three times more adult trees in 2020 than in the 1980s[18]—these threats to the forest are not independent and scientists warn climate change may lead to another adelgid outbreak. "If we were to have a period of warm winters and hot, dry summers, the trees will be stressed, I wouldn’t be surprised to see a resurgence of balsam woolly adelgid," says Kristine Johnson, supervisory forester at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.[18]
^Areas in green on the map exhibit high annual rainfall (at least 1400 mm), cool year-round temperatures (4 to 12°C average) wet summers (at least 10% of total precipitation occurring during the summer months), and moderate July temperatures (dark green less than 16°C, medium green less than 18°C, light green less than 20°C). While only the darkest green meets Alaback's original 1991 definition of a temperate rainforest,[1] the July temperature limits of this definition have since been broadened by a 2011 book by DellaSala, Alaback, and others.[2] Map created in ArcGIS Pro using open-access historical climate data at 30 arcsecond resolution.[3]
^ abcCreed, I. F., D. L. Morrison, and N. S. Nicholas. "., Is Coarse Woody Debris a Net Sink or Source of Nitrogen in the Red Spruce – Fraser Fir Forest of the Southern Appalachians, U.S.A.?" National Research Council Canada 24 (2004): 716-27. Print.
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