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Forest. The Amazon rainforest alongside the Solimões River, a tropical rainforest. These forests are the most biodiverse and productive ecosystems in the world. Proportion and distribution of global forest area by climatic domain, 2020 [1] A forest is an ecosystem characterized by a dense community of trees. [2]
Forest ecology is the scientific study of the interrelated patterns, processes, flora, fauna, funga, and ecosystems in forests. [1] The management of forests is known as forestry, silviculture, and forest management. A forest ecosystem is a natural woodland unit consisting of all plants, animals, and micro-organisms (biotic components) in that ...
Forest conservation is the practice of planning and maintaining forested areas for the benefit and sustainability of future generations. Forest conservation involves the upkeep of the natural resources within a forest that are beneficial for both humans and the ecosystem. Forests provide wildlife with a suitable habitat for living which allows ...
Forest fragmentation is a form of habitat fragmentation where forests are reduced (either naturally or man-made) to relatively small, isolated patches of forest known as forest fragments or forest remnants. [3] The intervening matrix that separates the remaining woodland patches can be natural open areas, farmland, or developed areas.
An old-growth forest[a] (also referred to as primary forest) is a forest that has developed over a long period of time without disturbance. Due to this, old-growth forests exhibit unique ecological features. [1] The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations defines primary forests as naturally regenerated forests of native tree ...
Rainforest. A thick rainforest in Chiapas, Mexico. Olympic rainforest located at Olympic Peninsula, Washington state. Rainforest at Mount Palung National Park, Borneo. A paranomic view of the Tropical rainforest, Nilgiri mountains, India. Canopy of Khao Sok tropical rainforest. Primitive tropical rainforest in Palawan.
Major uses of forests include timber production, recreation, hunting, fishing, watershed and fisheries protection, wildlife habitat and biodiversity protection, and gathering nontimber products such as berries, mushrooms, and medicinal plants. [1] There are boreal forests in Alaska. [4] Forests in Hawaii and the U.S. territories are tropical. [5]
Humid subtropical (Cfa) Conservation. Habitat loss. 22.235% [ 1 ] Protected. 11.03% [ 1 ] The Piney Woods is a temperate coniferous forest terrestrial ecoregion in the Southern United States covering 54,400 square miles (141,000 km 2) of East Texas, southern Arkansas, western Louisiana, and southeastern Oklahoma.