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The Eastern Temperate Forests is a Level I ecoregion of North America designated by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) in its North American Environmental Atlas. The region covers much of the Eastern and Midwestern United States, the U.S. Interior Highlands, and parts of Ontario, Quebec, and the Maritimes.
The eastern forest–boreal transition is a temperate broadleaf and mixed forests ecoregion of North America, mostly in eastern Canada. It is a transitional zone or region between the predominantly coniferous Boreal Forest and the mostly deciduous broadleaf forest region further south.
Alaska is the most biodiverse state with 15 ecoregions across three biomes in the same realm. California comes in a close second with 13 ecoregions across four biomes in the same realm. By contrast, Rhode Island is the least biodiverse with just one ecoregion—the Northeastern coastal forests —encompassing the entire state.
1990 USDA Hardiness zone map detail for the northeast US. Zone 3a is light orange, zone 4b is light lavender. The area is a temperate broadleaf and mixed forests biome transition zone between the true boreal forest to the north and the Big Woods and Carolinian forest to the south, with characteristics of each.
The current oak–hickory forest includes the former range of the oak–chestnut forest region, which encompassed the northeast portion of the current oak–hickory range. When the American chestnut population succumbed to invasive fungal blight in the early 20th century, those forests shifted to an oak and hickory dominated ecosystem.
East European forest steppe: Bulgaria, Moldova, Romania, Ukraine, Russia PA0421 English Lowlands beech forests: United Kingdom PA0422 Euxine-Colchic broadleaf forests [Note 3] Bulgaria, Georgia, Turkey PA0429 North Atlantic moist mixed forests: Ireland, United Kingdom (Northern Ireland and Scotland), Denmark (Faroe Islands) PA0431 Pannonian ...
Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests: Eastern Great Lakes lowland forests: Canada: Nearctic: Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests: Eastern Great Lakes lowland forests: United States: Nearctic: Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests: Eastern forest-boreal transition: Canada: Nearctic: Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests: Eastern forest-boreal ...
The Eastern Mediterranean conifer-sclerophyllous-forests, also known as the Eastern Mediterranean conifer-forests, [1] is an ecoregion in the eastern Mediterranean Basin. It covers portions of Turkey , Syria , Iraq , Lebanon , Israel , Palestinian territories , Jordan , and Saudi Arabia .