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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 ...
The tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forest is a habitat type defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature and is located at tropical and subtropical latitudes. [1] Though these forests occur in climates that are warm year-round, and may receive several hundred millimeters of rain per year, they have long dry seasons that last several months ...
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 ...
The Maya Forest is a tropical moist broadleaf forest that covers much of the Yucatan Peninsula, thereby encompassing Belize, northern Guatemala, and southeastern Mexico.It is deemed the second largest tropical rainforest in the Americas, after the Amazon, with an area of circa 15 million hectares (150,000 km 2), of which at least 3 million (30,000 km 2) lie within protected areas.
The areas damaged by this fires appears insignificant in the story map; however, they do matter. According to the statistics 550.521 hectares were affected by the fires in 1998, 453.43 hectares in 1999, 388.26 hectares in 2000 and 6.39 hectares in 2001. [6] During the period of 2002–2007, approximately 11,907 hectares of forest as damaged by ...
The South Florida rocklands ecoregion, in the tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests biome, occurs in southern Florida and the Florida Keys in the United States, where they would naturally cover an area of 2,100 km 2 (810 sq mi).
1.2 Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests. 1.3 Tropical and subtropical coniferous forests. 1.4 Deserts and xeric shrublands. 1.5 Mangroves. 2 Freshwater ...
1.2 Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests. 1.3 Tropical and subtropical coniferous forests. 1.4 Mangroves. 1.5 Tropical and subtropical coastal rivers.