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  2. 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.

  3. List of ecoregions in the United States (EPA) - Wikipedia

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    For a general description of these forests, refer to Temperate Deciduous Forest. The standard reference is The Deciduous Forest of Eastern North America. [4] The adjoining forests in Canada are generally referred to as the Mixedwood Plains Ecozone or the Great Lakes-St.Lawrence Forest Region. 32 Texas Blackland Prairies; 33 East Central Texas ...

  4. Southern Great Lakes forests - Wikipedia

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    The Southern Great Lakes lowland forests is a temperate broadleaf and mixed forest ecoregion of North America, as defined by the World Wildlife Fund. Located near the Great Lakes, it lies mostly in the central northeastern United States and extends into southeast central Canada. In modern times, little of it remains intact due to land use ...

  5. List of ecoregions in North America (CEC) - Wikipedia

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    Chiapas Depression with Low Deciduous and Medium Semi-Deciduous Tropical Forest 14.4.3: Valleys and Depressions with Xeric Shrub and Low Deciduous Forest 14.5: Southern Pacific Coastal Plain and Hills 14.5.1: Tehuantepec Canyon and Plain with Low Tropical Deciduous Forest and Low Thorn Forest 14.5.2

  6. Appalachian mixed mesophytic forests - Wikipedia

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    It has an unusually diverse tree flora, with as many as 30 tree species at a single site including many relics of the ancient forest that once covered North America more widely. Along with the forest there is a rich undergrowth of ferns , fungi , herbaceous plants , shrubs and small trees as well as areas of glade , heath , shale , peat bog and ...

  7. Temperate deciduous forest - Wikipedia

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    Global distribution of the temperate deciduous forest biome. Located below the northern boreal forests, [6] temperate deciduous forests make up a significant portion of the land between the Tropic of Cancer (23 °N) and latitudes of 50° North, in addition to areas south of the Tropic of Capricorn (23 °S). [7]

  8. 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 ...

  9. Temperate forest - Wikipedia

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    Areas of the globe with a temperate broadleaf and mixed forest biome, according to the WWF. A temperate forest is a forest found between the tropical and boreal regions, located in the temperate zone. It is the second largest terrestrial biome, covering 25% [1] of the world's forest area, only behind the boreal forest, which covers