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Broadleaf Trees: New Zealand has mixed seasonal forests, nostly evergreen and known also as temperate :ain forest and sub-Antarctic forest. Character-stic trees in this cold, wet climate are southern aeech (Nothofagus), a broadleaf evergreen, and :he conifers, podocarp (Podocarpus) and Dacry-iium. Southern Chile and Argentina have simi-ar luxuriant evergreen forests of southern beech ind conifers in a cold climate of 20 to 80 inches mnual precipitation, much as snow. These dense rorests have trees 60 to 100 feet high, shrubby aamboos in the understory, vines, and many epiphytes.
Tropical Rain Forest.—This luxuriant forest, ilso called wet forest and moist forest, is characterized by large, broadleaf evergreen trees of numerous kinds, as many as 50 to 100 species within several acres. It is found in three lowland regions of the earth near the equator where temperatures are uniformly warm or hot and rainfall abundant throughout the year. These are tropical America, tropical Africa, and Asia from India to the Philippines and northeastern Australia.
Tropical Deciduous or Seasonal Forest.—This forest type, characterized by broadleaf trees, mostly deciduous, is called also monsoon, light, tropophytic, or sometimes dry forest. It is present where there is a distinct or prolonged dry season or sometimes two dry seasons in the year. Often this forest is located between the rain forest and thorn forest or grassland and is a transition between these types. A seasonal forest may be mostly evergreen where the dry season is short or not pronounced. |
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