Temperate Rainforest

A temperate rainforest is either coniferous forests or forests growing in the temperate climate zones in places with much rainfall. Temperate forests cover large parts of the world, but the temperate rainforests are mainly located in seven different regions around the world. Most of them occur in coastal areas with a maritime climate, for example, in the humid northwestern coastal region of North America, Western Europe, southwestern South America, southeast Australia and New Zealand sydø. Subtropical rainforest exists on the Black Sea, north of New Zealand, South Africa's Garden Route, western Japan, and in the central mountain range of Taiwan. Some places have so much precipitation that occurs accounts, even if they have a continental climate, the case for example of pockets in eastern Siberia, Manchuria, southern China, Columbia Mountains in the interior of British Columbia and Appalacherne in the eastern United States.



Temperate rainforest is different from other types of forests on the following points:

* Precipitation: Much rain (minimum 2-3 meters per year, depending on latitude), usually formed by moist air from the oceans.
* Temperate Climate: The climate marked by the changing seasons.

The following factors are important for the formation of temperate rainforests, but is not crucial:
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Temperate rain in the Mount Hood Wilderness, Oregon, USA. This area receives annually more than 2.5 m rain.

* Relative proximity to the ocean: temperate rainforests often occur in areas with a maritime climate, where the disparities between seasons are moderate and winters are milder summers cooler than in continental regions;.
* Coastal mountains: how mountains are formed near the coast is more rain on the coast facing slopes, where the humid sea air pushed over the mountain peaks. The opposite slope lies in shadow rain and the climate is often drier here.

Temperate rain forests consist mainly of conifers, deciduous forest green place or a mixture of both løvfældende and evergreen trees, and they occur most in ecoregion with temperate forests.
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Temperate rain at Multnomah Falls, Oregon, USA

Some temperate coniferous forests contain a higher level of biomass in any ecosystem on land and include known to contain abnormal physical large trees, such as Rødtræer (Sequoia sempervirens), Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii), Sitka (Piceasitchensis), cypresses Fitzroya cupressoides) and (Agathis australis).
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Temperate rainforest from the Capilano Suspension Bridge in British Columbia, Canada.
2nd Temperate Rainforests
2nd 1st Western Europe

West-facing coastal areas, all near the Atlantic Ocean in Ireland, Brittany, southern Scandinavia and northern Spain. Forests in these areas is mainly composed of different varieties of oak, Quercus petraea and typically have been exploited and influenced by humans for centuries. Some forest areas in England called sometimes also as temperate rainforests. [1]
2nd 2nd Black Sea

At the Black Sea south-eastern edge lies Kolchisskoven, they extend into both Turkey and Georgia and is part of the larger ecoregion, Euxinus-Kolchis forest, along with the more arid forests further to the west. Kolchis rain forest consists of a mixture of løvfældende and evergreen; bla.vokser Europe's highest tree (up to 78 m), Abies nordmanniana, here.
2nd 3rd North America

The largest temperate rainforests in the world can be found in the Pacific Northwest region of North America, along the Pacific coast from Kodiak Island in Alaska to northern California, and is part of the nearktiske økozone. This rainforest extending over several eco-regions, which means that the composition of species varies. Conifers are dominant in most of the region, but in many places, especially in the coastal mountains, there is a close undergrowth of deciduous trees and less vegetation. The forest areas stretching from southwestern British Columbia to parts of Idaho and Montana are more influenced by the continental climate and thus thicker sneflad in winter than at the coast. These rainforests adjacent to the Rocky Mountains and mammals-fauna is more varied, more species appear in both kystegnene and in the territory. [2]

Rain in Northern California include home to some of the largest trees in the world, namely rødtræet (Sequoia sempervirens). Some of the pristine rainforest found in Olympic National Park, Mount Rainier National Park, Tongass National Forest, Mount St. Helens National Monument, Redwood National Park and several places in British Columbia, such as the Great Bear Rainforest is the largest continuous Temperate rainforest in the world .

In the eastern United States, there are also smaller pockets where orographic lifting creates weather systems with so much precipitation that occurs rainforests. The southern part of Appalachernetilføres moist air from the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico and falling therefore more rain here than in the surrounding areas. The largest rainforests are in the western North Carolina. [3], northern Georgia [4], and far eastern Tennessee [5] In addition, there are also small areas of rainforest in the other eastern U.S., most of bejrgegne.
2nd 4th South America

The largest temperate rainforests in South America are in kystegnene in southern Chile and Argentina, on the west-facing slopes of the Andes down to the south end of the continent. These forests belong to the neotropiske økozone. The largest forest area called the Valdivianske rainforest and extends over temperate and subpolare eco-regions, this rain forest dominated by deciduous trees, particularly southern beech (Nothofagus), but is also home to several types of conifers.
2nd 5th South Africa

Areas of forests in the South African Drakensberg Mountains receive enough rain to the rainforest can be formed. The climate in this part of the country is temperate and there is growing several types of Podocarpaceae, a group of conifers, it receives its precipitation from the Indian ocean. Forests have features reminiscent of many of the remaining temperate rainforests again places in the world, but also from the evergreen Afromontane forests, which appears in heights in southern and eastern Africa. a well preserved example of the South African rainforest found in Tsitsikamma National Park.
2nd 6th New Zealand and Australia

The temperate rainforests in New Zealand found on the western coast of both North and South Island. It consists of both Podocarpaceae evergreen and deciduous trees; podocarpaceae dominate on the lower slopes while Nothofagus become more common higher up and cooler own further to the south.

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Tasmaniens west coast is home to more rain. The same is the State of Victoria, particularly in the Otway Ranges, Strzelecki Ranges, Dandenong Ranges and the East Gippsland and south-east of New South Wales, where the rain forest on the border of Queensland, Border Ranges National Park, recorded as part of UNESCO's World Heritage, like the tasmanske forests.
2nd 7th East Asia

Temperate rainforests found in southwestern Japan in Taiheyoskovene, on the islands of Shikoku and Kyushu Islands and on the side of Honshu overlooking the Pacific. Only parts of these forests can be characterized as rain, it These include forests Kirishimabjerget at near Kagoshima and at the beautiful Nachivandfald in Yoshino-Kumano National Park. This area is identified as the most rainy in Japan.

On Taiwan's east coast and central mountain areas receive parts of the island's subtropical forests so much precipitation to form rain, particularly on the higher slopes. In the mountains the climate is so cool to the subtropical forests replaced by temperate forest types. Examples of this forest type found among other things in Yushan (Jadebjergene) and Alishan.
2nd 8th Southern ocean

On the islands of Tristan da Cunha and New Zealand's southern islands, Anti-graft Islands, Auckland Islands and Campbell Islands, there are temperate rainforests. The total annual rainfall is very high, because the islands are very isolated from other land masses and therefore receive very large amounts of moist air from the ocean. On other islands are so strong wind impacts that can not grow trees, while the high Andean Mountain range means that the Falkland Islands do not receive enough rain to house rainforests.

Temperate Forest

Temperate forests create living conditions that are particularly well suited for certain animals and plants.
Temperate forest plants and animals are divided into four layers: The bottom layer is closest to the ground floor. Closest to the ground floor is the bottom layer.

Microscope viewing shows that the floor is the right jungle: thousands of insects, Myriapoda and spiders eating the dead leaves.

After that comes the field layer: it belongs to all the undergrowth, namely grasses, grasses and flowers. This layer live foxes, hares, small rodents, birds, insects, etc.

It is located higher up the shrub layer. This layer includes all 1 - 5 meters in height shrubs. They are feeding on birds, metsäkauriit, German and moose.

Puukerros can reach 50 meters in height. Kerrostuneisuudellaan forest protection in the lower layers of too much sunlight nor earth dry. It has therefore always fresh.