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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 ...
An evergreen forest is a forest made up of evergreen trees. They occur across a wide range of climatic zones, and include trees such as conifers and holly in cold climates, eucalyptus , live oak , acacias , magnolia , and banksia in more temperate zones, and rainforest trees in tropical zones.
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 Central American Atlantic moist forests ecoregion (WWF ID: NT0111) covers the lowland coastal forests of Honduras, southeast Guatemala, and the eastern forests of Nicaragua (plus two small patches in Belize). Half of the ecoregion is closed-canopy tropical broadleaf evergreen forest, with tree heights reaching 50 meters.
Tropical forests are often thought of as evergreen rainforests [2] and moist forests, ... location and climatic zone ... Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf ...
The Zambezian evergreen dry forests, also known as the Zambezian Cryptosepalum dry forest, is a tropical dry broadleaf forest ecoregion of Southern Africa. It consists of several areas of thick forest in western Zambia and adjacent Angola. [2] It is one of the largest areas of tropical evergreen forest outside the equatorial zone.
The Western Java rain forests ecoregion (World Wildlife Fund ID: IM0168) covers the lowland rain forests below 1,000 meters in elevation in the western half of the island of Java in Indonesia. There are a variety of forest types - evergreen , semi-evergreen, moist deciduous , and even some patches of freshwater swamp.
The Madagascar lowland forests or Madagascar humid forests [2] are a tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion found on the eastern coast of the island of Madagascar, home to a plant and animal mix that is 80 to 90% endemic, with the forests of the eastern plain being a particularly important location of this endemism.