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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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Why do some trees lose their leaves in autumn?
Learn why leaves of deciduous trees change colour in autumn.
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Lake Towada
Lake Towada, Towada-Hachimantai National Park, northern Honshu, Japan.
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Deciduous forest in autumn
The autumn foliage of a deciduous forest along Lake Superior in Michigan.
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Terrestrial biomes of the world
Worldwide distribution of major terrestrial biomes.
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A diagram showing that different levels of ecological organization often occur in a given area.
An area may be divided into different levels of ecological organization, with smaller...
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Spring ephemerals
White trillium (Trillium grandiflorum) in bloom.
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Frugivorous bird
Cedar waxwing (Bombycilla cedrorum) eating a berry on a tree branch.
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Wild turkey
A mature male turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) strutting in an eastern deciduous...
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Deciduous forest
Oaks, beeches, birches, chestnuts, aspens, elms, maples, and basswoods (or lindens)...
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Japanese black bear (Ursus thibetanus japonicus)
Japanese black bears (Ursus thibetanus japonicus) are hunted for food as...
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Field of bluebells
Spring flowering of bluebells (Hyacinthoides nonscripta) in a deciduous...
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Deciduous forest
A stand of beech trees in a deciduous forest in autumn, New Forest, southern England.
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deciduous trees
Deciduous forest in fall coloration, Wasatch Mountains, Utah.
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Deforestation of tropical forests
Map of tropical forests and deforestation in the early 21st century.
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