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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 ...
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 ...
The Global 200 scheme, promoted by the World Wildlife Fund, classifies three main tropical forest habitat types , grouping together tropical and sub-tropical areas (maps below): Tropical and subtropical coniferous forests. Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests, Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests,
Tropical rainforests are a type of tropical moist broadleaf forest, that includes the more extensive seasonal tropical forests. [3] True rainforests usually occur in tropical rainforest climates where no dry season occurs; all months have an average precipitation of at least 60 mm (2.4 in).
Half of the ecoregion is closed-canopy tropical broadleaf evergreen forest, with tree heights reaching 50 meters. [2] [3] [1] This ecoregion has the largest single fragment of natural forest in Central America, with a size of 14,629 square kilometres (5,648 sq mi). [4] The total area is 89,979 square kilometres (34,741 sq mi).
Pages in category "Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 222 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Amazon rainforest, [a] also called Amazon jungle or Amazonia, is a moist broadleaf tropical rainforest in the Amazon biome that covers most of the Amazon basin of South America. This basin encompasses 7,000,000 km 2 (2,700,000 sq mi), [2] of which 6,000,000 km 2 (2,300,000 sq mi) are covered by the rainforest. [3]