Temperate forests receive an average of 30 to 59 inches of rain per year. Soils are generally fertile, with a thick layer of organic matter from which plants can extract nutrients to grow.

As tropical fishes colonize new habitats in temperate oceans, made available to them because of ocean warming, researchers ...

Some of the world’s most vulnerable creatures are fighting for survival as habitat loss, climate change, and human activity ...

The distribution of vertebrate animals redefines temperate and cold climate regions by Umea University Climate regions in the world Credit: Icelab at Umeå University ...

Much of the conservation and climate change spotlight falls on tropical forests. Given this, people might forget that forests in the temperate areas—those found in large parts of North America ...

Connecting Roots to Leaves: Studying the Diversity of Plant Functions in a Temperate Forest When looking at forests, we hardly get to see beyond a bunch of green. However, for a plant ecologist ...

Researchers discovered that boreal and temperate forests have become the main global carbon sinks. Tropical forests, which are older and degraded by deforestation, fire and drought, are nearly ...

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