Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests - Definition and Overview

Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests are a temperate and humid biome.

It is characterized by

• water : available (rainy)
• temperature : cool and warm season
• soil : fertile
• plants : deciduous trees
• animals : many mammals, birds, reptiles, insects, arachnides…

See also forest, temperate hardwood forest, trees of the world

Temperate broadleaf and mixed forest ecoregions

Australasia ecozone

• Australia
  • Eastern Australian temperate forests
  • Southeast Australia temperate forests
  • Tasmanian Central Highland forests
  • Tasmanian temperate forests
  • Tasmanian temperate rain forests
• New Zealand
  • Chatham Islands temperate forests
  • Fiordland temperate forests (see Fiordland)
  • Nelson Coast temperate forests (see Kahurangi National Park)
  • Northland temperate forests (see Northland)
  • Northland temperate kauri forests (see Northland)
  • Rakiura Island (Stewart Island) temperate forests
  • Richmond temperate forests
  • Southland temperate forests
  • Westland temperate forests (see Westland)

Indomalaya ecozone

• Eastern Himalayan broadleaf forests (Bhutan, India, Nepal)
• Northern Triangle temperate forests (Myanmar)
• Western Himalayan broadleaf forests (India, Nepal, Pakistan)
  

Nearctic ecozone

• Allegheny Highlands forests (United States)
• Appalachian mixed mesophytic forests (United States)
• Appalachian-Blue Ridge forests (United States)
• Central U.S. hardwood forests (United States)
• East Central Texas forests (United States)
• Eastern forest-boreal transition (Canada, United States)
• Eastern Great Lakes lowland forests (Canada, United States)
• Gulf of St. Lawrence lowland forests (Canada)
• Mississippi lowland forests (United States)
• New England-Acadian forests (Canada, United States)
• Northeastern coastal forests (United States)
• Ozark Mountain forests (United States)
• Southeastern mixed forests (United States)
• Southern Great Lakes forests (United States)
• Upper Midwest forest-savanna transition (United States)
• Western Great Lakes forests (Canada, United States)
• Willamette Valley forests (United States)

Neotropic ecozone

• Juan Fernandez Islands temperate forests (Chile)
• Magellanic subpolar forests (Argentina, Chile)
• San Felix-San Ambrosio Islands temperate forests (Desventuradas Islands) (Chile)
• Valdivian temperate rain forests (Argentina, Chile)

Palearctic ecozone

• Appenine deciduous montane forests (Italy)
• Atlantic mixed forests (Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany. Netherlands)
• Azores temperate mixed forests (Portugal)
• Balkan mixed forests (Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Turkey)
• Baltic mixed forests (Denmark, Germany, Poland, Sweden)
• Cantabrian mixed forests (Portugal, Spain)
• Caspian Hyrcanian mixed forests (Azerbaijan, Iran)
• Caucasus mixed forests (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russia Turkey)
• Celtic broadleaf forests (Ireland, United Kingdom)
• Central Anatolian deciduous forests (Turkey)
• Central China loess plateau mixed forests (China)
• Central European mixed forests (Austria, Belarus, Czech Republic, Germany, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Ukraine)
• Central Korean deciduous forests (North Korea South Korea)
• Changbai Mountains mixed forests (China, North Korea)
• Changjiang Plain evergreen forests (China)
• Crimean Submediterranean forest complex (Russia, Ukraine)
• Daba Mountains evergreen forests (China)
• Dinaric Mountains mixed forests (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Italy, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia)
• East European forest steppe (Bulgaria, Moldova, Romania, Russia, Ukraine)
• Eastern Anatolian deciduous forests (Turkey)
• English Lowlands beech forests (United Kingdom)
• Euxine-Colchic deciduous forests (Georgia, Turkey)
• Hokkaido deciduous forests (Japan)
• Huang He Plain mixed forests (China)
• Madeira evergreen forests (Portugal)
• Manchurian mixed forests (China, North Korea, Russia, South Korea)
• Nihonkai evergreen forests (Japan)
• Nihonkai montane deciduous forests (Japan)
• North Atlantic moist mixed forests (Ireland, United Kingdom)
• Northeast China Plain deciduous forests (China)
• Pannonian mixed forests (Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine)
• Po Basin mixed forests (Italy)
• Pyrenees conifer and mixed forests (Andorra, France, Spain)
• Qin Ling Mountains deciduous forests (China)
• Rodope montane mixed forests (Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Serbia)
• Sarmatic mixed forests (Belarus, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Russia, Sweden)
• Sichuan Basin evergreen broadleaf forests (China)
• South Sakhalin-Kurile mixed forests (Russia)
• Southern Korea evergreen forests (South Korea)
• Taiheiyo evergreen forests (Japan)
• Taiheiyo montane deciduous forests (Japan)
• Tarim Basin deciduous forests and steppe (China)
• Ussuri broadleaf and mixed forests (Russia)
• West Siberian broadleaf and mixed forests (Russia)
• Western European broadleaf forests (Austria, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Switzerland)
• Zagros Mountains forest steppe (Iran)

External links

• Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests (World Wildlife Fund) (http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/where_we_work/ecoregions/global200/pages/habitat/habitat04.htm)</center>
• Map of the ecozones (http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/where_we_work/ecoregions/global200/pages/mainmap.htm)