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Areas of the globe with a temperate broadleaf and mixed forest biome, according to the WWF. 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
Elm trees (Ulmus) and willows (Salix) can also be found dispersed throughout the temperate deciduous forests of the world. [1] While a wide variety of tree species can be found throughout the temperate deciduous forest biome, tree species richness is typically moderate in each individual ecosystem, with only 3 to 4 tree species per square ...
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.
In 2020, the world had a total forest area of 4.06 billion ha, which was 31 percent of the total land area. This area is equivalent to 0.52 ha per person [2] – although forests are not distributed equally among the world's people or geographically. The tropical domain has the largest proportion of the world's forests (45 percent), followed by ...
A portion of the temperate rain forest region of North America, the largest area of temperate zone rainforests on the planet, is the Pacific temperate rain forests ecoregion, which occur on west-facing coastal mountains along the Pacific coast of North America, from Kodiak Island in Alaska to northern California, and are part of the Nearctic realm.
Caucasus mixed forests: temperate broadleaf forest Georgia: Mtirala National Park: 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 ...
The Valdivian and Magellanic temperate rainforests are the only temperate rain forests in South America and one of a small number of temperate rain forests in the world. Together they are the second largest in the world, after the Pacific temperate rain forests of North America (which stretches from Alaska to northern California).
San Félix–San Ambrosio Islands temperate forests; Sandomierz Forest; Sarmatic mixed forests; Sichuan Basin evergreen broadleaf forests; Sierra Madre Occidental pine–oak forests; Sierra Madre Oriental pine–oak forests; South Sakhalin–Kurile mixed forests; Southeast Australia temperate forests; Southern Highlands Shale Forest and Woodland