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Temperate deciduous forest. Old growth beech forest in Slovakia. Temperate deciduous or temperate broad-leaf forests are a variety of temperate forest 'dominated' by deciduous trees that lose their leaves each winter. [1] They represent one of Earth's major biomes, making up 9.69% of global land area. [2]
Metapsychology (Greek: meta 'beyond, transcending', and ψυχολογία ' psychology ') [2] is that aspect of a psychological theory that discusses the terms that are essential to it, but leaves aside or transcends the phenomena that the theory deals with. Psychology refers to the concrete conditions of the human psyche, metapsychology to ...
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%. These forests cover both hemispheres at latitudes ranging from 25 to 50 degrees, [2] wrapping ...
The Carolinian forest refers to a life zone in eastern North America characterized primarily by the predominance of deciduous (broad-leaf) forest. [1] The term "Carolinian", which is most commonly used in Canada, refers to the deciduous forests which span across much of the eastern United States from the North Carolina northward into southern ...
Western Java rain forests. The Western Java rain forests ecoregion (World Wildlife Fund ID: IM0168) covers the lowland rain forests below 1,000 meters in elevation in the western half of the island of Java in Indonesia. There are a variety of forest types - evergreen, semi-evergreen, moist deciduous, and even some patches of freshwater swamp.
Seasonal tropical forest, also known as moist deciduous, semi-evergreen seasonal, tropical mixed or monsoon[1] forest, typically contains a range of tree species: only some of which drop some or all of their leaves during the dry season. This tropical forest is classified under the Walter system as (i) tropical climate with high overall ...
Psychoactive cacti, which contain mainly mescaline: Peyote. Other Lophophora. Peruvian Torch cactus. San Pedro cactus. Trichocereus macrogonus var. macrogonus (syn. Echinopsis peruviana) Trichocereus macrogonus var. pachanoi (syn. Echinopsis pachanoi) Other Echinopsis. Mild stimulant and vasoconstrictor plants that contain mainly caffeine and ...
critical/endangered [ 1] Protected. 6,645 km² (28%) [ 2] The South Western Ghats moist deciduous forests is an ecoregion in the Western Ghats of southern India with tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests. This biome covers the Nilgiri Hills between elevation of 250 and 1,000 m (820 and 3,280 ft) in Kerala, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu ...