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.
The AngelesNationalForest does have a good pine forest component ... Under the updated 1976 National Forest ManagementAct, the forest service's multi-pronged mission is to protect watersheds, timber stands and healthy wildlife populations.
The memorandum also stated that the hydro power project would make an adverse impact on the movement and well-being of cheetahs brought from Namibia and South Africa under the Kuno Cheetah....
FederalLabor steps in to clarify its position on native forestry in Tasmania after the party's Bass candidate, JessTeesdale, voiced support for an end to the practice in the state ... .
ScientistInna Birchenko began to cry as she described the smouldering protected forest in Thailand where she was collecting samples from local trees shrouded in wildfire smoke ... .
(MENAFN - Kashmir Observer) Srinagar- Amid prolonged dry weather and minimal snowfall, massive forest fires have erupted at multiple locations across Kashmir, severely impacting the region's green ... .
On Thursday, the Supreme Court directed that "no activity of any sort," except for the protection of trees, should be undertaken by the Telangana government ... .
The CEC survey would include the Periyar tiger reserve, Srivilliputhur grizzled squirrel wildlife sanctuary, Meghamalai and Thirunelveli wildlife sanctuaries ....