Cimate
The annual average temperature in the city near Lake Baikal, Ulan-Ude, is 29.7 F, and the annual average precipitation is 10.1 inches. The temperature is cold year round and only reaches a yearly high of 60-65 F. It normally rains in the summer months, but during the most the fall, winter, and spring months it snows, hails, and sleets.
Living and Non-living Factors
Although, because this area is very cold the ground is usually covered in snow and ice especially in the winter. The lake stretches widely from North to South in a banana shape covering 12,248 square miles and reaches depths of 5,387 feet. Lake Baikal is the deepest lake in the world. Factories around the banks of the lake release pollutants into the lake which affect all the living things around the area. The vegetation of the area is either plentiful or dwindling due to the great length of the lake and the different conditions around the areas. Many animals live out and around the lake banks and within the lake itself
Interactions
An interesting interaction is one between the Ciliary Worms and the rest of the marine life in the lake. This interaction is a unique form of predator and prey, I find this interesting because the worms somehow know which organisms are sick or weakened and they target them. So indirectly these worms could save a certain species from a sickness by neutralizing it within the sick organism.