Forest This article is about a community of trees. For other uses‚ see Forest (disambiguation). | This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (August 2011) | A conifer forest in the Swiss Alps (National Park) Mixed deciduous forest in Stara Planina‚ Serbia A forest‚ also referred to as a wood or the woods‚ is an area with a high density of trees. As
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Introduction A forest is a complex ecosystem which is predominantly composed of trees‚ shrubs and is usually a closed canopy. Forests are storehouses of a large variety of life forms such as plants‚ mammals‚ birds‚ insects and reptiles etc. Also the forests have abundant microorganisms and fungi‚ which do the important work of decomposing dead organic matter thereby enriching the soil. Nearly 4billion hectares of forest cover the earth’s surface‚ roughly 30 percent of its total land area.The forest ecosystem
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Critical Analysis The story ‘The Lost Child’ is very emotional. The author Mulk Raj Anand has brought before us the bustling and fervent movements during the festive season in a village. The setting is a village street where the seasonal fair was going on during spring with groves and flowering mustard field near the street. The story dates back sometime before the contemporary period. There were people riding on horses on roads and others sitting and carried in the bamboo and bullock carts.
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tropical forests Forest definition (canopy cover %) . 10% tree cover 25% tree cover 30% tree cover 63 43 36 Aboveground forest carbon (Mt C) 4‚356 3‚464 3‚151 Belowground forest carbon (Mt C) 1‚238 968 873 Total forest carbon (Mt C) 5‚593 4‚431 4‚024 89 104 112 Forest Area (M ha) Average Carbon Density (t C/ha) M=million‚ t=metric tons; all figures are mean carbon stock values Trends India: Breakdown of forest types‚ 2010 Primary forest (1000 ha | % of forest area) 15701
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Forests are precious national resource whim not only play significant role in national condor but help in pollution control and maintaining logical balance. These offer a number of direct indirect advantages which have been realised sin time immemorial. Direct Advantages 1. Forests provide valuable timber for dome tic and commercial use. Industries like paper‚ matt making‚ plywood‚ sports goods‚ lakh and furniture at directly based on raw materials derived from forest 2. Forests supply a
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The Forest - Creative Writing Essay For English - The Forest There’s a forest bordering the town that I live in. The adults refuse to go near it or talk of what lies within. From the time we consciously understand our parents teach us not to step foot in there because the “Unmentionable Monsters” will get you. Of course as kids with wild imaginations we made our own predictions about what it could be. The Boogie Man‚ Dracula‚ werewolves‚ ghosts‚ and all sorts of other ghouls came to mind. These
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Temperate forests correspond to forest concentrations formed in the northern and southern hemisphere‚ or in temperate regions. Main characteristics include: wide leaves‚ large and tall trees and non seasonal vegetation. Temperate forests can be further distinguished by weatherpatterns and geographical features that favor the predominance of certain kinds of trees. In temperate coniferous forests‚ evergreen coniferspredominate‚ while in temperate broadleaf and mixed forests‚ a more even distribution
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BENEFITS OF FOREST RESOURCES A forest‚ also referred to as a wood or the woods‚ is an area with a high density of trees. As with cities‚ depending on various cultural definitions‚ what is considered a forest may vary significantly in size and have different classifications according to how and of what the forest is composed. A forest is usually an area filled with trees but any tall densely packed area of vegetation may be considered a forest‚ even underwater vegetation such as kelp forests‚ or non-vegetation
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A forest is an area with a high density of trees. There are many definitions of a forest‚ based on various criteria. These plant communities cover approximately 9.4 per cent of the Earth’s surface (or 30 per cent of total land area) and function as habitats for organisms‚ hydrologic flow modulators‚ and soil conservers‚ constituting one of the most important aspects of the Earth’s biosphere. The emerging trends of deforestation‚ desertification and soil erosion are closely linked with societal
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Forests A forest is an area filled with trees which provides homes for many different living things. The forests found in Trinidad and Tobago are called Tropical Seasonal Forests because they are found near the Earth’s equator and have both wet and dry seasons. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ A forest is made up of different layers. The Emergent Layer is very sunny because it is at the very top and only the
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