Temperate Rainforest Biome Map

Maphobbyist / wikimedia* in the uk. Temperate forests generally have an understorey of moss and are noted for their masses of trees. The map shows the distribution of the global ecosystems or biomes.

The canopy consists of tall coniferous trees, the understory has lichens, ferns, and mosses, and the forest floor is made up of fungi and herbaceous vegetation. Tropical and subtropical forests are the other types of deciduous forests. It contains the most intact example of a temperate rainforest.

Temperate forests are also wetter than deserts but drier than rainforests.

Covering an area less than half the size of the north american pacific coast rainforests, the largest expanse is the valdivian rainforest, the norrthernmost (37°45′ s─43°. The temperatures in ireland are. In north america, the eastern deciduous forest stretches from florida to. Annual precipitation over 140 cm (55 in) (kj);