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Temperate forests are forests in the temperate climate zones. They include: A dense growth of softwoods (a forest) in the Sierra Nevada Range of Northern California A forest is an area with a high density of trees (or, historically, a wooded area set aside for hunting). ... In geography, temperate latitudes of the globe lie between the tropics and the polar circles. ...


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Temperate forest (737 words)
Temperate forests are typical of all European continent, the Eastern region of Asia (in special, Chinese and Japan) and North America.
Another important characteristic of the temperate forest is the diversity of animal species: birds, rodents, red deers, wild boars and bears, among others, in the North hemisphere, and in general, smaller species that occupy equivalent ecological niches in the south.
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Temperate (Deciduous) Forests (0 words)
The temperate forest biome is found in the middle latitudes around the globe and this biome is very seasonal.
Temperate forests dominate the mid-latitudes in eastern North America, western Europe, and eastern Asia.
Temperate forests blend into the pines and firs of the taiga (cold climate forests).
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