Future Impacts

It is reported that in the coniferous forests, it is likely to rain with acid which is a problem in Asia, Japan. The reason why the acid rain is bad is that acid rain is mainly made with materials which already deposited in the air with rain and residues. Especially, coniferous forests in Japan that are located in high altitude tend to be damaged its trees. According to this data, it says there is 300 to 900 millimeters of rain per year. This seems like there are pretty much rain per year and that means the amount of acid rain are included in the data we have collected. Because of that, the large amount of acid rain would somehow destroy the ecosystem in the future. The acid rain would cause in climate change and animals living near temperate coniferous forests would continuously disappear because the coniferous trees can be decomposed itself.

Source: "Weather Report." Chart. Temperate Coniferous Forest. WCTA, n.d. Web.

Temperature: -40°C to 20°C, average summer temperature is 10°C

Precipitation: 300 to 900 millimeters of rain per year

Vegetation: Coniferous-evergreen trees (trees that produce cones and needles; some needles remain on the trees all year long)

Location: Canada, Europe, Asia, and the United States

Other: Coniferous forest regions have cold, long, snowy winters, and warm, humid summers; well-defined seasons, at least four to six frost-free months

Table 1: Number of Foreign Visitors to Hokkaido

Source: Tourist Promotion Team of Economic Dept. of Hokkaido Prefecture    

Table 1 provides the number of tourists visit Hokkaido, Japan between 1999 and 2004, and it is clearly shown that there is a steadily increase in number of people visit Hokkaido. Tourism is one of the factor that leads to the degradation of environment. Increase in tourism implies that there may be further degradation  of temperate coniferous forest in Japan in the future.