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Temperate Forest

Temperate forests are characterized by deciduous trees that lose their leaves in winter. They experience cold winters and warm, wet summers. The trees develop different layers, including a canopy of tall trees, an understory of smaller trees and shrubs, and a floor layer of mosses and lichens. Wildlife in these forests adapt to the changing seasons through hibernation, migration, food storage, or camouflage.

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Temperate Forest

Temperate forests are characterized by deciduous trees that lose their leaves in winter. They experience cold winters and warm, wet summers. The trees develop different layers, including a canopy of tall trees, an understory of smaller trees and shrubs, and a floor layer of mosses and lichens. Wildlife in these forests adapt to the changing seasons through hibernation, migration, food storage, or camouflage.

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Temperate

Forest
MUYARGAS, Ma. Theresa
Deciduous trees are
trees that lose their
leaves in winter.
Decreasing temperatures and
shortened daylight hours in fall mean
Temperate Forest decreased photosynthesis for plants. Thus,
these trees shed their leaves in fall and bud
characterized as regions with high levels of new leaves in spring when warmer
precipitation, humidity, and a variety temperatures and longer hours of daylight
of deciduous trees. return.
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Temperatures range from hot in the
summer, with highs of 86 F, to extremely
cold in the winter, with lows of -22 F.
Temperate forests receive abundant
amounts of precipitation, usually between
20 and 60 inches of precipitation annually.
This precipitation is in the form of rain and
snow.
Climate • An overstory of 20–30 m tall trees
• An understory of 5–10 m trees and shrubs,
Temperature deciduous forests occur in • A shrub layer around 1–2 m in height
mid-latitudes where cool winters, warm
summers, and high year round
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Deciduous forests are typically
found in the Northern
Hemisphere.

Eastern Asia
Northeast China
Plain

Central and
Western Europe
European Temperate
Deciduous Forest

Eastern United
States
Great Smoky Mountains
National Park (US)

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Vegetation

Due to abundant rainfall


and thick soil humus,
temperate forests are
able to support a wide
variety of plant life and
vegetation.

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Vegetation

The leaves of deciduous


trees change color and
fall off in the autumn and
grow back in the spring.
The broad, flat leaves of
deciduous trees lose
water quickly.

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Forest Canopy Tier

Maple Tree Walnut Tree Birch Tree

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Small Tree Tier

Dogwood Tree Redbud Tree Shadbush Tree

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Shrub Tier

Azalea Mountain Laurel Huckleberry

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Herb Tier

Blue Bead Lily Indian Cucumber Wild Sarsaparilla

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Floor Tier

Mosses Lichens

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Wildlife

Temperate forest animals have


many different ways to deal
with the cold and lack of food
in winter. Some animals
hibernate during the winter
and arise in spring when food
is more plentiful. Other
animals store food and burrow
underground to escape the
cold. Many animals escape the
harsh conditions by migrating
to warmer regions in winter.

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Wildlife

Other animals have


adapted to this
environment by blending
in with the forest.
Some camouflage
themselves as leaves,
looking almost
indistinguishable from
the foliage. This type of
adaptation comes in
handy for both predators
and prey. Cardinal

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Wildlife

Pileated Snowy Owl Broad-winged


Woodpeckers Hawk

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Wildlife

White-tailed Deer Opossum Porcupine

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