Forests is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal on forestry and forest ecology published monthly online by MDPI. Open Access — free for readers, with article processing charges (APC) paid by authors or their institutions.
A forest is a complex ecological system in which trees are the dominant life-form. A forest is nature’s most efficient ecosystem, with a high rate of photosynthesis affecting both plant and animal systems in a series of complex organic relationships. Forests can develop under various conditions, and the kind of soil, plant, and animal life differs according to the extremes of environmental ...
Tropical Forests Common to areas near the equator, such as Southeast Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Central America. They include tropical rainforests, sub-tropical rainforests and mangroves. They are the warmest and often wettest forests on the planet and are some of the most species-rich ecosystems on earth. Even though they cover less than 10% of the world they are host to over half the ...
The word forest broadly describes an area that has a large number of trees. There are three general types of forest that exist: temperate, tropical and boreal. Experts estimate that these forests cover approximately one-third of Earth’s surface. Temperate forests are found across eastern North America and Eurasia. The temperatures of temperate forests vary throughout the year because of the ...
Forest biomes The three major forest biomes are coniferous forests, deciduous forests, and tropical rain forests. More than half of the world's forests are found in only five countries (Brazil, Canada, China, the Russian Federation, and the United States of America). More forests (45 percent) are in the tropics than any other climates.