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Global distribution of the temperate deciduous forest biome. Located below the northern boreal forests, [6] temperate deciduous forests make up a significant portion of the land between the Tropic of Cancer (23 °N) and latitudes of 50° North, in addition to areas south of the Tropic of Capricorn (23 °S). [7]
Forests where a majority of the trees lose their foliage at the end of the typical growing season are called deciduous forests. These forests are found in many areas worldwide and have distinctive ecosystems, understory growth, and soil dynamics. [20] Two distinctive types of deciduous forests are found growing around the world.
A temperate forest is a forest found between the tropical and boreal regions, located in the temperate zone. It is the second largest terrestrial biome, covering 25% [ 1 ] of the world's forest area, only behind the boreal forest , which covers about 33%.
Euxine-Colchic deciduous forests: temperate broadleaf rainforest India: Dudhatoli Mountains, Uttarakhand 6,000 hectares (15,000 acres) Western Himalayan broadleaf forests and subalpine conifer forests temperate broadleaf mixed forests and montane forests biome Indonesia: Leuser Ecosystem: Sumatran montane rain forests. Sumatran lowland rain forests
Extent of temperate broadleaf and mixed forests An example of temperate broadleaf and mixed forest in La Mauricie National Park, Quebec.. Temperate broadleaf and mixed forest is a temperate climate terrestrial habitat type defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature, with broadleaf tree ecoregions, and with conifer and broadleaf tree mixed coniferous forest ecoregions.
Trinidad and Tobago dry forest on Chacachacare showing the dry-season deciduous nature of the vegetation. Dry forests tend to exist in the drier areas north and south of the tropical rainforest belt, south or north of the subtropical deserts, generally in two bands: one between 10° and 20°N latitude and the other between 10° and 20°S latitude.
Deciduous Forest Region - This region is located between Lake Huron, Lake Ontario, and Lake Erie in southwestern Ontario. [ 8 ] Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Forest - This region is the second largest (the boreal being the largest), and is located from southeastern Manitoba to the Gaspé Peninsula .
Deciduous forests. At the northern end of the ecoregion are deciduous forests, dominated by deciduous species of southern beech , including rauli ( Nothofagus alpina ) and roble ( N. obliqua ). This is a transitional zone to the Mediterranean-climate region to the north.