Temperate deciduous forest | deciduous forest
Temperatedeciduousortemperatebroad-leafforestsareavarietyoftemperateforestdominatedbytreesthatlosetheirleaveseachyear.Theyarefoundinareaswithwarmmoistsummersandcoolwinters.ThesixmajorareasofthisforesttypeoccurintheNorthernHemisphere:NorthAmerica,EastAsia,CentralandWesternEurope(exceptBrittany,Cornwall,Wales,IrelandandwesternScotland),Denmark,southernSwedenandsouthernNorway.TemperateevergreenforestsoccurinAustralasia,NewZealandandsouthernSouthAmerica,howevertheyarenotdeciduousastheirnorthern-...
Temperate deciduous or temperate broad-leaf forests are a variety of temperate forest dominated by trees that lose their leaves each year. They are found in areas with warm moist summers and cool winters. The six major areas of this forest type occur in the Northern Hemisphere: North America, East Asia, Central and Western Europe (except Brittany, Cornwall, Wales, Ireland and western Scotland), Denmark, southern Sweden and southern Norway. Temperate evergreen forests occur in Australasia, New Zealand and southern South America, however they are not deciduous as their northern-hemisphere equivalents. Examples of typical trees in the Northern Hemispheres deciduous forests include oak, maple, basswood, beech and elm, while in the Southern Hemisphere, trees of the genus Nothofagus dominate this type of forest.
Resources[edit]Humans have often colonized areas in the temperate deciduous forest. They have harvested wood for timber and charcoal.[1] During the settlement of North...