A forest is a large area of land covered with trees or other woody vegetation. Hundreds of more precise definitions of forest are used throughout the world, incorporating factors such as tree density, tree height, land use, legal standing and ecological function. According to the widely used United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization definition, forests covered an area of four billion hectares (15 million square miles) or approximately 30 percent of the world's land area in 2006.
Forests are the dominant terrestrial ecosystem of Earth, and are distributed across the globe. Forests account for 75% of the gross primary productivity of the Earth's biosphere, and contain 80% of the Earth's plant biomass.
Forests at different latitudes form distinctly different ecozones: boreal forests near the poles tend to consist of evergreens, while tropical forests near the equator tend to be distinct from the temperate forests at mid-latitude. The amount of precipitation and the elevation of the forest also affects forest composition.
Forest is the seventeenth album by the Finnish experimental rock band Circle, first released on CD in 2004 by Ektro Records. It was re-issued the following year by No Quarter Records. It was recorded in May 2004, and is the first Circle album to feature mainly acoustic instruments. It continues the band's krautrock-influenced interest in repetition, but bears little resemblance to the Judas Priest-meets-Neu! sound of earlier albums.
Liverpool will look to build upon their perfect start to the campaign when they host NottinghamForest in their next Premier League match on Saturday ... Nottingham Forest are also unbeaten in the league after their first three games.
Liverpool will aim to continue their flawless start to the season as they welcome NottinghamForest for their next Premier League fixture on Saturday ... Nottingham Forest have also remained unbeaten in their opening three matches.
... forest divisionTwelve people were booked by Gadarpur police after an encounter between timber smugglers and forest personnel in Terai CentralForestDivision left four forest officials injured.
To be perfectly honest, there’s not much to do in a mangrove forest ... Where the forest meets the sea. Walking the mangroves of QueenslandYet, these mysterious forests that sit on the margins between land ...
The season of long walks with a shotgun is upon us. Washington’s forest grouse hunting season begins Sunday, drawing hunters into the woods with dreams of wingbeats ... But chasing grouse can lead to the most exciting hunting of the year ... 15 from Sept ... .
South America is being ravaged by fire from Brazil’s Amazon rainforest through the world’s largest wetlands to dry forests in Bolivia, breaking a previous record for the number of blazes seen in a ...
) 13 Sep 2024 Grants of up to £25,000 available for businesses in the Forest. Business across the Forest of Dean are invited to apply for the next round of Rural Business Grants to develop and grow their business.
IDF says most of the projectiles were successfully intercepted, and the rest fell in open areas. Fragments of a rocket which had been intercepted exploded in Moshav Dalton, no injuries ....