Deciduous forest: Quick Facts

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A boat travels across Lake Towada, bordered by steep hills covered in vibrant autumn foliage, in Towada-Hachimantai National Park, northern Honshu, Japan.

View from Sugarloaf Mountain of autumn trees in red, orange, and green, with Little Presque Isle and Lake Superior under a golden dawn sky near Marquette, Michigan.

World map displaying the distribution of seven major biomes: grassland and savanna, temperate deciduous forest, taiga (boreal forest), desert, tropical rainforest, tundra, and areas not classified. Each biome is represented by a distinct color, illustrating their global locations and extents across continents.

Diagram illustrating the levels of ecological organization, from ecological community and habitat to ecosystem and biome, using labeled landscape cross-sections and showing interactions like energy flow, disturbances, and nutrient cycling.

White trillium flowers with three large petals and yellow centers bloom among green leaves in a forest setting during spring.

Frugivorous bird

A mature male wild turkey with fanned tail feathers struts on green ground among slender trees in a deciduous woodland.

A forest trail covered with fallen leaves winds through tall deciduous trees displaying vibrant autumn colors in the Allegheny Mountains, Pennsylvania.

Asiatic black bear (Ursus thibetanus) standing on green vegetation in a forest, with dark fur and a lighter patch on its chest.

Field of bluebells

Why do some trees lose their leaves in autumn?

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cold-deciduous forest temperate deciduous forest sclerophyllous forest broad-leaved forest Tropical dry forest Eurasian coniferous forest deciduous tree Temperate forest Forest Temperate rainforest Coniferous forest Mixed forest Deforestation Rainforest reforestation old-growth forest Forest fire coppice Thorn forest

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Emma Lucy Braun

American botanist and ecologist

Field of baobab trees, Madagascar. (bottle tree)

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Chutes d'Ekom - a waterfall on the Nkam river in the rainforest near Melong, in the western highlands of Cameroon in Africa.

Ecosystems

Spreading oak tree in summer. (green, leaves, deciduous, shade)

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