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Forests of Sweden. Sweden is covered by 68% forest. [1] In southern Sweden, human interventions started to have a significant impact on broadleaved forests around 2000 years ago, where the first evidence of extensive agriculture has been found. [2] Recent studies describe a long-term process of borealization in south-central Sweden starting at ...
Footnotes. [4] The United States Forest Service ( USFS) is an agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture that administers the nation's 154 national forests and 20 national grasslands covering 193 million acres (780,000 km 2) of land. [5] The major divisions of the agency are the Chief's Office, National Forest System, State and Private ...
Riparian forests are subject to frequent inundation . Riparian forests help control sediment, reduce the damaging effects of flooding and aid in stabilizing stream banks . Riparian zones are transition zones between an upland terrestrial environment and an aquatic environment. Organisms found in this zone are adapted to periodic flooding.
The private forest in Germany is distributed to almost 2 million owners. The average size of German private forests is 3 hectares. While the property size class covers more than 1,000 hectares, only 13 percent of the private forest area, 50 percent of the area and 98 percent of the owners in the small private forest to 20 hectares in size.
Forest disturbances are events that cause change in the structure and composition of a forest ecosystem, beyond the growth and death of individual organisms. Disturbances can vary in frequency and intensity, and include natural disasters such as fire, landslides, wind, volcanic eruptions, rare meteor impacts, outbreaks of insects, fungi, and other pathogens, animal-caused effects such as ...
Mangrove forests, also called mangrove swamps, mangrove thickets or mangals, are productive wetlands that occur in coastal intertidal zones. [1] [2] Mangrove forests grow mainly at tropical and subtropical latitudes because mangroves cannot withstand freezing temperatures. There are about 80 different species of mangroves, all of which grow in ...
A private forest (also private woodland or private wood) is a forest that is not owned by municipal authorities (such as a corporate forest ), church authorities or the state (e.g. a state forest or national forest). It can refer to woodland owned by a natural or juridical person or a partnership .It is the forest which is planted, nurtured or ...
Tropical forests are forested landscapes in tropical regions: i.e. land areas approximately bounded by the tropic of Cancer and Capricorn, but possibly affected by other factors such as prevailing winds . Some tropical forest types are difficult to categorize. While forests in temperate areas are readily categorized on the basis of tree canopy ...