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Palau tropical moist forests: Palau: Rapa Nui and Sala-y-Gomez tropical broadleaf forests: Easter Island Samoan tropical moist forests: American Samoa, Samoa: Society Islands tropical moist forests: French Polynesia: Tongan tropical moist forests: Niue, Tonga: Tuamotu tropical moist forests: French Polynesia, Pitcairn Islands: Tubuai tropical ...
Borneo rainforest. Some tropical forest types are difficult to categorize. While forests in temperate areas are readily categorized on the basis of tree canopy density, such schemes do not work well in tropical forests. [1] There is no single scheme that defines what a forest is, in tropical regions or elsewhere.
The Coastal forests of eastern Africa, also known as the East African Coastal Forests or Zanzibar–Inhambane forests, is a tropical moist forest region along the east coast of Africa. The region was designated a biodiversity hotspot by Conservation International .
The Atlantic Equatorial coastal forests, also known as the Congolian coastal forests (French: Forêts côtières équatoriales atlantiques, Spanish: Bosques costeros atlánticos ecuatoriales, Portuguese: Florestas costeiras atlânticas equatoriais), are a tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion of Central Africa, covering hills, plains, and mountains of the Atlantic coast of Cameroon ...
Mangrove forests, also called mangrove swamps, mangrove thickets or mangals, are productive wetlands that occur in coastal intertidal zones. [1] [2] Mangrove forests grow mainly at tropical and subtropical latitudes because mangrove trees cannot withstand freezing temperatures. There are about 80 different species of mangroves, all of which ...
Tropical seasonal forests, also known as moist deciduous, monsoon or semi-evergreen (mixed) seasonal forests, have a monsoon or wet savannah climates (as in the Köppen climate classification): receiving high overall rainfall with a warm summer wet season and (often) a cooler winter dry season. Some trees in these forests drop some or all of ...
Northern Zanzibar–Inhambane coastal forest mosaic: Kenya: Afrotropical: Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests: Northern Zanzibar–Inhambane coastal forest mosaic: Somalia: Afrotropical: Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests: Northern Zanzibar–Inhambane coastal forest mosaic: Tanzania, United Republic of: Afrotropical
Kelp forests occur worldwide throughout temperate and polar coastal oceans. [55] In 2007, kelp forests were also discovered in tropical waters near Ecuador. [56] Physically formed by brown macroalgae, kelp forests provide a unique habitat for marine organisms [57] and are a source for understanding many ecological processes.