North Carolina has a very wide variety of wildlife. In the mountains you are more liable to see things like bobcats, mountain lions, and bears. In the Piedmont, you are more likely to encounter deer, foxes, rabbits, squirrels, anything that doesn't need an extreme moist enviornment. In the Coastal Plains where their are more wetlands, you would find things such as swans, seagulls, and a large amount of fish. North Carolina has a wide difference in variety from the Mountains to the Coastal Plain.
North Carolina has its mixes of Ecosystems. Maritime Forests are located near beaches, though some have been partially destroyed due to beach-front structures. Some still stand, and are along the coast. Most are built upon wild salt spray, bringing twisted dwarf trees at the ocean edge. Tidal Salt Marshes stay close to the Pamlico Sound and Albemarle Sound, though they don't produce as much as life as Maritime Forests or other ecosystems in the area. Longleaf pines once were a big part of N.C., though it has slowly died down due to tree farming. North Carolina has a mix of different ecosystems.
North Carolina has the same biome that every state on the eastern coast of the U.S. seems to have. North Carolina has what somebody might call, a Midlatitude Mixed Forest, which is basically a moist, wet, yet is mixed. Almost half the country has this type of biome.
| Graph on Biomes in North Carolina |
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Textbook (on bibliography)
