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Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf ForestsTropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests also known as Tropical rain forests are a tropical and subtropical biome.
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests are found in a belt around the equator and in the humid subtropics, and are characterized by warm, humid climates with high year-round rainfall. Tropical and subtropical regions with lower rainfall or distinct wet and dry seasons are home to Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests and Tropical and Subtropical Coniferous Forests. Temperate rain forests also occur in certain humid temperate coastal regions.
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests are common in several terrestrial ecozones, including parts of the Afrotropic (equatorial Africa), Indomalaya (parts of the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia), the Neotropic (northern South America and Central America), Australasia (eastern Indonesia, New Guinea, and northern Australia), and Oceania (the tropical islands of the Pacific Ocean). About half of the world's tropical rainforests are in the South American country of Brazil. Rain forests now cover less than 6% of Earth's land surface. Scientists estimate that more than half of all the world\'s plant and animal species live in tropical rain forests. Tropical rainforests produce 40% of Earth's oxygen.
- water : very wet\n*temperature : always warm\n*soil : poor and thin\n*plants : many\n*animals : many
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests ecoregions
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\n\nAlbertine Rift montane forests (Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda)
\nAtlantic Equatorial coastal forests (Angola, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon)
\nCameroonian Highlands forests (Cameroon, Nigeria)
\nCentral Congolian lowland forests (Democratic Republic of Congo)
\nComoros forests (Comoros)
\nCross-Niger transition forests (Nigeria)
\nCross-Sanaga-Bioko coastal forests (Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria)
\nEast African montane forests (Kenya, Sudan, Tanzania)
\nEastern Arc forests (Tanzania, Kenya)
\nEastern Congolian swamp forests (Democratic Republic of Congo)
\nEastern Guinean forests (Benin, Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, Togo)
\nEthiopian montane forests (Ethiopia)
\nGranitic Seychelles forests (Seychelles)
\nGuinean montane forests (Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire, Liberia, Sierra Leone)
\nKnysna-Amatole montane forests (South Africa)
\nKwaZulu-Cape coastal forest mosaic (South Africa)
\nMadagascar lowland forests (Madagascar)
\nMadagascar subhumid forests (Madagascar)
\nMaputaland coastal forest mosaic (Mozambique, Swaziland, South Africa)
\nMascarene forests (Mauritius, Réunion)
\nMount Cameroon and Bioko montane forests (Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea)
\nNiger Delta swamp forests (Nigeria)
\nNigerian lowland forests (Benin, Nigeria)
\nNortheastern Congolian lowland forests (Cameroon, Central African Republic, Gabon, Republic of Congo)
\nNorthern Zanzibar-Inhambane coastal forest mosaic (Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania)
\nNorthwestern Congolian lowland forests (Cameroon, Central African Republic, Gabon, Republic of Congo)
\nSão Tomé and Príncipe moist lowland forests (São Tomé and Príncipe)
\nSouthern Zanzibar-Inhambane coastal forest mosaic (Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zimbabwe)
\nWestern Congolian swamp forests (Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Congo)
\nWestern Guinean lowland forests (Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire, Liberia, Sierra Leone)
\n | | \n | | Australasia ecozone |
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\n\nAdmiralty Islands lowland rain forests (Papua New Guinea)
\nBanda Sea Islands moist deciduous forests (Indonesia)
\nBiak-Numfoor rain forests (Indonesia)
\nBuru rain forests (Indonesia)
\nCentral Range montane rain forests (Indonesia, Papua New Guinea)
\nHalmahera rain forests (Indonesia)
\nHuon Peninsula montane rain forests (Papua New Guinea)
\nJapen rain forests (Indonesia)
\nLord Howe Island subtropical forests (Australia)
\nLouisiade Archipelago rain forests (Papua New Guinea)
\nNew Britain-New Ireland lowland rain forests (Papua New Guinea)
\nNew Britain-New Ireland montane rain forests (Papua New Guinea)
\nNew Caledonia rain forests (New Caledonia)
\nNorfolk Island subtropical forests (Australia)
\nNorthern New Guinea lowland rain and freshwater swamp forests (Indonesia, Papua New Guinea)
\nNorthern New Guinea montane rain forests (Indonesia, Papua New Guinea)
\nQueensland tropical rain forests (Australia)
\nSeram rain forests (Indonesia)
\nSolomon Islands rain forests (Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands)
\nSoutheastern Papuan rain forests (Papua New Guinea)
\nSouthern New Guinea freshwater swamp forests (Indonesia, Papua New Guinea)
\nSouthern New Guinea lowland rain forests (Indonesia, Papua New Guinea)
\nSulawesi lowland rain forests (Indonesia)
\nSulawesi montane rain forests (Indonesia)
\nTrobriand Islands rain forests (Papua New Guinea)
\nVanuatu rain forests (Solomon Islands, Vanuatu)
\nVogelkop montane rain forests (Indonesia)
\nVogelkop-Aru lowland rain forests (Indonesia)
\n | | \n | | Indomalaya ecozone |
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\n\nAndaman Islands rain forests (India)
\nBorneo lowland rain forests (Indonesia, Malaysia)
\nBorneo montane rain forests (Indonesia, Malaysia)
\nBorneo peat swamp forests (Indonesia, Malaysia)
\nBrahmaputra Valley semi-evergreen forests (India)
\nCardamom Mountains rain forests (Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam)
\nChao Phraya freshwater swamp forests (Thailand)
\nChao Phraya lowland moist deciduous forests (Thailand)
\nChin Hills-Arakan Yoma montane forests (India, Myanmar)
\nChristmas and Cocos Islands tropical forests (Australia)
\nEastern highlands moist deciduous forests (India)
\nEastern Java-Bali montane rain forests (Indonesia)
\nEastern Java-Bali rain forests (Indonesia)
\nGreater Negros-Panay rain forests (Philippines)
\nHainan Island monsoon rain forests (China)
\nHimalayan subtropical broadleaf forests (Bhutan, India, Nepal)
\nIrrawaddy freshwater swamp forests (Myanmar)
\nIrrawaddy moist deciduous forests (Myanmar)
\nJian Nan subtropical evergreen forests (China)
\nKayah-Karen montane rain forests (Myanmar, Thailand)
\nLower Gangetic Plains moist deciduous forests (Laos, Thailand, Vietnam)
\nLuang Prabang montane rain forests (Laos)
\nLuzon montane rain forests (Philippines)
\nLuzon rain forests (Philippines)
\nMalabar Coast moist forests (India)
\nMaldives-Lakshadweep-Chagos Archipelago tropical moist forests (British Indian Ocean Territory, India, Maldives)
\nMeghalaya subtropical forests (India)
\nMentawai Islands rain forests (Indonesia)
\nMindanao montane rain forests (Philippines)
\nMindanao-Eastern Visayas rain forests (Philippines)
\nMindoro rain forests (Philippines)
\nMizoram-Manipur-Kachin rain forests (Bangladesh, India, Myanmar)
\nMyanmar coastal rain forests (Myanmar)
\nNansei Islands subtropical evergreen forests (Japan)
\nNicobar Islands rain forests (India)
\nNorth Western Ghats moist deciduous forests (India)
\nNorth Western Ghats montane rain forests (India)
\nNorthern Annamites rain forests (Laos, Vietnam)
\nNorthern Indochina subtropical forests (China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam)
\nNorthern Khorat Plateau moist deciduous forests (Laos, Thailand)
\nNorthern Thailand-Laos moist deciduous forests (Laos, Thailand)
\nNorthern Triangle subtropical forests (Myanmar)
\nNorthern Vietnam lowland rain forests (Vietnam)
\nOrissa semi-evergreen forests (India)
\nPalawan rain forests (Philippines)
\nPeninsular Malaysian montane rain forests (Malaysia, Thailand)
\nPeninsular Malaysian peat swamp forests (Malaysia, Thailand)
\nPeninsular Malaysian rain forests (Indonesia, Malaysia)
\nRed River freshwater swamp forests (Vietnam)
\nSouth China Sea Islands (disputed between China, Malaysia, Philippines, Taiwan, Vietnam)
\nSouth China-Vietnam subtropical evergreen forests (China, Vietnam)
\nSouth Taiwan monsoon rain forests (Taiwan)
\nSouth Western Ghats moist deciduous forests (India)
\nSouth Western Ghats montane rain forests (India)
\nSouthern Annamites montane rain forests (Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam)
\nSouthwest Borneo freshwater swamp forests (Indonesia)
\nSri Lanka lowland rain forests (Sri Lanka)
\nSri Lanka montane rain forests (Sri Lanka)
\nSulu Archipelago rain forests (Philippines)
\nSumatran freshwater swamp forests (Indonesia)
\nSumatran lowland rain forests (Indonesia)
\nSumatran montane rain forests (Indonesia)
\nSumatran peat swamp forests (Indonesia)
\nSundaland heath forests (Indonesia)
\nSundarbans freshwater swamp forests (Bangladesh, India)
\nTaiwan subtropical evergreen forests (Taiwan)
\nTenasserim-South Thailand semi-evergreen rain forests (Malaysia' Myanmar, Thailand)
\nTonle Sap freshwater swamp forests (Cambodia, Vietnam)
\nTonle Sap-Mekong peat swamp forests (Cambodia, Vietnam)
\nUpper Gangetic Plains moist deciduous forests (India)
\nWestern Java montane rain forests (Indonesia)
\nWestern Java rain forests (Indonesia)
\n | | \n | | Neotropic ecozone |
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\n\nAraucaria moist forests (Argentina, Brazil)
\nAtlantic Coast restingas (Brazil)
\nBahia coastal forests (Brazil)
\nBahia interior forests (Brazil)
\nBolivian Yungas (Bolivia, Peru)
\nCaatinga Enclaves moist forests (Brazil)
\nCaqueta moist forests (Brazil, Colombia)
\nCatatumbo moist forests (Venezuela)
\nCauca Valley montane forests (Colombia)
\nCayos Miskitos-San Andrés and Providencia moist forests (Colombia, Nicaragua)
\nCentral American Atlantic moist forests (Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama)
\nCentral American montane forests (El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua)
\nChiapas montane forests (Mexico)
\nChimalapas montane forests (Mexico)
\nChocó-Darién Moist Forests (Colombia, Ecuador, Panama)
\nCocos Island moist forests (Costa Rica)
\nCordillera La Costa montane forests (Venezuela)
\nCordillera Oriental montane forests (Colombia, Venezuela)
\nCosta Rican seasonal moist forests (Costa Rica, Nicaragua)
\nCuban moist forests (Cuba)
\nEastern Cordillera real montane forests (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru)
\nEastern Panamanian montane forests (Colombia, Panama)
\nFernanda de Noronha-Atol das Rocas moist forests (Brazil)
\nGuayanan highlands forests (Brazil, Colombia, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela)
\nGuianan moist forests (Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela)
\nGurupa varzea (Brazil)
\nHispaniolan moist forests (Dominican Republic, Haiti)
\nIquitos varzea (Bolivia, Brazil, Peru)
\nIsthmian-Atlantic moist forests (Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama)
\nIsthmian-Pacific moist forests (Costa Rica, Panama)
\nJamaican moist forests (Jamaica)
\nJapurá-Solimoes-Negro moist forests (Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela)
\nJuruá-Purus moist forests (Brazil)
\nLeeward Islands moist forests (Antigua, British Virgin Islands, Guadeloupe, Montserrat, Nevis, Saint Kitts, British Virgin Islands)
\nMadeira-Tapajós moist forests (Bolivia, Brazil)
\nMagdalena Valley montane forests (Colombia)
\nMagdalena-Urabá moist forests (Colombia)
\nMarajó varzea (Brazil)
\nMaranhão Babaçu forests (Brazil)
\nMato Grosso tropical dry forests (Brazil)
\nMonte Alegre varzea (Brazil)
\nNapo Moist Forests (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru)
\nNegro-Branco moist forests (Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela)
\nNortheastern Brazil restingas (Brazil)
\nNorthwestern Andean montane forests (Colombia, Ecuador)
\nOaxacan montane forests (Mexico)
\nOrinoco Delta swamp forests (Guyana, Venezuela)
\nPantanos de Centla (Mexico)
\nParamaribo swamp forests (Guyana, Suriname)
\nParañá-Paraíba interior forests (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay)
\nPernambuco coastal forests (Brazil)
\nPernambuco interior forests (Brazil)
\nPeruvian Yungas (Peru)
\nPetén-Veracruz moist forests (Mexico)
\nPuerto Rican moist forests (Puerto Rico)
\nPurus varzea (Brazil)
\nPurus-Madeira moist forests (Brazil)
\nRio Negro campinarana (Brazil, Colombia)
\nSanta Marta montane forests (Colombia)
\nSerra do Mar coastal forests (Brazil)
\nSierra de los Tuxtlas (Mexico)
\nSierra Madre de Chiapas moist forest (El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico)
\nSolimões-Japurá moist forest (Brazil, Colombia, Peru)
\nSouth Florida rocklands (United States)
\nSouthern Andean Yungas (Argentina, Brazil)
\nSouthwest Amazon moist forests (Bolivia, Brazil, Peru)
\nTalamancan montane forests (Costa Rica, Panama)
\nTapajós-Xingu moist forests (Brazil)
\nTepuis (Brazil, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela)
\nTocantins-Araguaia-Maranhão moist forests (Brazil)
\nTrinidad and Tobago moist forests (Trinidad and Tobago)
\nTrinidade-Martin Vaz Islands tropical forests (Brazil)
\nUatuma-Trombetas moist forests (Brazil, Guyana, Suriname)
\nUcayali moist forests (Peru)
\nVenezuelan Andes montane forests (Colombia, Venezuela)
\nVeracruz moist forest (Mexico)
\nVeracruz montane forests (Mexico)
\nWestern Ecuador moist forests (Colombia, Ecuador)
\nWindward Islands moist forests (Dominica, Grenada, Martinique, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines)
\nXingu-Tocantins-Araguaia moist forests (Brazil)
\nYucatán moist forests (Belize, Guatemala, Mexico)
\n | | \n | | Oceania ecozone |
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\n\nCarolines tropical moist forests (Federated States of Micronesia)
\nCentral Polynesian tropical moist forests (Cook Islands, Johnston Atoll, Kiribati, Palmyra Atoll)
\nCook Islands tropical moist forests (Cook Islands)
\nEastern Micronesia tropical moist forests (Marshall Islands, Nauru, Kiribati, Wake Island)
\nFiji tropical moist forests (Fiji)
\nHawaii tropical moist forests (Hawaii)
\nKermadec Islands subtropical moist forests (New Zealand)
\nMarquesas tropical moist forests (French Polynesia)
\nOgasawara subtropical moist forests (Japan)
\nPalau tropical moist forests (Palau)
\nRapa Nui and Sala-y-Gomez subtropical broadleaf forests (Chile)
\nSamoan tropical moist forests (American Samoa, Western Samoa)
\nSociety Islands tropical moist forests (French Polynesia)
\nTongan tropical moist forests (Tonga)
\nTuamotu tropical moist forests (French Polynesia)
\nTubuai tropical moist forests (French Polynesia)
\nWestern Polynesian tropical moist forests (Kiribati, Tokelau, Tuvalu)
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\n\nGizhou Plateau broadleaf and mixed forests (China)
\nYunnan Plateau subtropical evergreen forests (China)
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See also\n* Forest\n* Trees of the world
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