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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
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Spreading oak tree in summer. (green, leaves, deciduous, shade)
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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.
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Deciduous forest: References & Edit History

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Article title updated for style. Nov 12, 2026
Invalidated site: PNAS - Deciduous forest responses to temperature, precipitation, and drought imply complex climate change impacts. Oct 01, 2026
Added Top Questions. Aug 25, 2026
Article thoroughly revised and updated. Aug 21, 2026
Add new Web site: IOPscience - IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science - The growth of deciduous trees in the protective forest belts of the southern part of Central Siberia (PDF). Feb 13, 2026
Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Whole-plant allocation to storage and defense in juveniles of related evergreen and deciduous shrub species. Dec 24, 2025
Add new Web site: Frontiers - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution - Functional traits of trees from dry deciduous “Forests” of southern India suggest seasonal drought and fire are important drivers. Oct 11, 2025
Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Multi-Year Monitoring of Deciduous Forests Ecophysiology and the Role of Temperature and Precipitation as Controlling Factors. Jun 20, 2025
Add new Web site: CiteSeerX - Turbulent transfer in a deciduous forest (PDF). Mar 25, 2025
Add new Web site: PNAS - Deciduous forest responses to temperature, precipitation, and drought imply complex climate change impacts. Aug 20, 2024
Add new Web site: CORE - Deciduous Forest Interior Birds. Jun 27, 2024
Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Deciduous forest responses to temperature, precipitation, and drought imply complex climate change impacts. Apr 29, 2023
Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Deciduous forest responses to temperature, precipitation, and drought imply complex climate change impacts. Apr 29, 2023
Add new Web site: The Nature Education - Knowledge Project - Restoration of Deciduous Forests. Dec 09, 2022
Added a photo of a deciduous forest in the autumn. Jun 25, 2019
Article revised and updated. Apr 13, 2007
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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