Eastern Himalayan broadleaf forests
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The Eastern Himalayan broadleaf forests is a temperate broadleaf forest ecoregion which is found in the middle elevations of the eastern Himalayas, including parts of Nepal, India, and Bhutan.
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The ecoregion covers an area of 83,100 square kilometers (32,100 square miles), constituting a band of temperate broadleaf forest lying between approximately 2000 and 3000 meters elevation, extending from the Kali Gandaki River in Nepal across the Indian state of Sikkim, Bhutan, and the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. At lower elevations, the temperate broadleaf forests yield to subtropical pine and broadleaf forests. At higher elevations, the temperate broadleaf forests transition to the Eastern Himalayan subalpine conifer forests.
