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  2. Forest disturbance by invasive insects and diseases in the ...

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    Eastern hemlock, for example, is commonly replaced by black birch in the northeast—a slow-growing, shade-tolerant and deep shade producing evergreen tree, replaced by a fast-growing, open, deciduous tree. While short-term forest productivity was discussed above, long-term productivity of ash forests will depend on the species which fill the ...

  3. Temperate deciduous forest - Wikipedia

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    Temperate deciduous or temperate broad-leaf forests are a variety of temperate forest 'dominated' by deciduous trees that lose their leaves each winter. [1] They represent one of Earth's major biomes , making up 9.69% of global land area. [ 2 ]

  4. Eastern Temperate Forests - Wikipedia

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    The biggest threat besides climate change to the eastern temperate forest is its high density of human inhabitants. According to the Commission for Environmental Cooperation approximately 160 million people or over 40 percent of North America’s population, lives within the ecological region of the eastern temperate forest12.

  5. Forest conservation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Forests in the United States can be categorized into three main forest biomes, they are boreal, temperate, or sub-tropical based on the location and climate of the forest. Each of these biomes faces various threats of deforestation , urban development, [ 2 ] soil compaction , species extinction, unmanaged recreational use, invasive species , or ...

  6. New England–Acadian forests - Wikipedia

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    This forest type is considered the northern extension of the mixed mesophytic deciduous forest. The four dominant canopy species of the hemlock-northern hardwood forests are sugar maple ( Acer saccharum ), beech ( Fagus grandifolia ), yellow birch ( Betula alleghaniensis ) and hemlock ( Tsuga canadensis ).

  7. Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests - Wikipedia

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    Extent of temperate broadleaf and mixed forests An example of temperate broadleaf and mixed forest in La Mauricie National Park, Quebec.. Temperate broadleaf and mixed forest is a temperate climate terrestrial habitat type defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature, with broadleaf tree ecoregions, and with conifer and broadleaf tree mixed coniferous forest ecoregions.

  8. ‘Serious threats’ prompt Department of Agriculture to ...

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    'Serious threats' have prompted the partial closure of Franklin State Forest, the Tennessee Department of Agriculture said. ‘Serious threats’ prompt Department of Agriculture to partially ...

  9. Western Great Lakes forests - Wikipedia

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    Sugar maple-paper birch forest in Hiawatha National Forest, Michigan. This ecoregion is a transition area between the taiga (Boreal forest) to the north and the temperate deciduous forest and tallgrass prairie to the south and west and thus contains a variety of habitats including northern coniferous forests, northern hardwood forest, boreal hardwood-conifer forest, swamp forest, and peatland ...