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The world of Serina 10 million years PE is a warm, rich, and prospering one. Birds, insects, fish, grasses and flowers have speciated explosively to fill the ecological vacuum of their new world, forming a myriad of rich biomes worldwide both familiar and entirely unique to this world. With a climate that is tropical in all but the most polar regions - with even these being only equivalent to the temperate broadleaf forests of Earth - conditions are at this time ideal for colonizing species. However, Serina's current mild climate comes at a price - global rainfall levels during the Hypostecene, particularly the latter of the era, are considerably lower than those on Earth, a result of relatively flat and comparable thin landmasses over which air flows rapidly, with storms often by-passing land entirely, blowing from one sea to the next before releasing rain. While Serina at this point still lacks widespread desert, a gradual trend began immediately following the abandonment of the planet towards aridity; following five to six million years of almost complete dominion over land, bamboo groves begin to recede to more coastal environments where rainfall levels are more sufficient to nurture widespread forest, leaving inland regions the domain of prairie grasses and flowering plants, among them sunflowers, clover, and dandelion derivatives, which are better adapted towards lengthy periods of drought. Rainforest or its equivalent is the rarest biome present on Serina, occurring only sporadically along shoreline environments or in the shadows of the moon's few large mountain ridges, where coastal clouds are trapped and their water collected.

In central Anciska, however, there does exist one notable region of high rainfall occurring despite no major mountains in the immediate vicinity; due to the region's extremely low elevation - several hundred feet below sea level. Here one finds an enormous valley that is growing wider by the century as the continent is torn by continental drift, being gradually pulled apart into two by continental forces, with a significant fault line running directly through its center east to west - eventually, the landmass will have split into two, with the southern portion of Anciska colliding with the north of Stevhlandea, forming another large island continent. With the ground so low here, the plains of this valley are the final resting place for all rains from both continents, which gradually flow over hundreds of miles of savannah both north and south to settle here in the largest floodplain in the world. Bamboo flourishes here as do they highest diversity of flowering plants on Earth, several thousand charted species now diverged from clovers alone, which grow large and colorful in the absence of significant competition. Wetland-adapted sunflowers are present, but grasses are dominant here, with dense thickets popping up wherever conditions allow, providing food for countless small invertebrates and feeding and nesting habitat to tens of millions of birds.

For information on individual species shown, please visit s1.zetaboards.com/Conceptual_E…

Description
The world of Serina 10 million years PE is a warm, rich, and prospering one. Birds, insects, fish, grasses and flowers have speciated explosively to fill the ecological vacuum of their new world, forming a myriad of rich biomes worldwide both familiar and entirely unique to this world. With a climate that is tropical in all but the most polar regions - with even these being only equivalent to the temperate broadleaf forests of Earth - conditions are at this time ideal for colonizing species. However, Serina's current mild climate comes at a price - global rainfall levels during the Hypostecene, particularly the latter of the era, are considerably lower than those on Earth, a result of relatively flat and comparable thin landmasses over which air flows rapidly, with storms often by-passing land entirely, blowing from one sea to the next before releasing rain. While Serina at this point still lacks widespread desert, a gradual trend began immediately following the abandonment of the planet towards aridity; following five to six million years of almost complete dominion over land, bamboo groves begin to recede to more coastal environments where rainfall levels are more sufficient to nurture widespread forest, leaving inland regions the domain of prairie grasses and flowering plants, among them sunflowers, clover, and dandelion derivatives, which are better adapted towards lengthy periods of drought. Rainforest or its equivalent is the rarest biome present on Serina, occurring only sporadically along shoreline environments or in the shadows of the moon's few large mountain ridges, where coastal clouds are trapped and their water collected.

In central Anciska, however, there does exist one notable region of high rainfall occurring despite no major mountains in the immediate vicinity; due to the region's extremely low elevation - several hundred feet below sea level. Here one finds an enormous valley that is growing wider by the century as the continent is torn by continental drift, being gradually pulled apart into two by continental forces, with a significant fault line running directly through its center east to west - eventually, the landmass will have split into two, with the southern portion of Anciska colliding with the north of Stevhlandea, forming another large island continent. With the ground so low here, the plains of this valley are the final resting place for all rains from both continents, which gradually flow over hundreds of miles of savannah both north and south to settle here in the largest floodplain in the world. Bamboo flourishes here as do they highest diversity of flowering plants on Earth, several thousand charted species now diverged from clovers alone, which grow large and colorful in the absence of significant competition. Wetland-adapted sunflowers are present, but grasses are dominant here, with dense thickets popping up wherever conditions allow, providing food for countless small invertebrates and feeding and nesting habitat to tens of millions of birds.

For information on individual species shown, please visit s1.zetaboards.com/Conceptual_E…