Talk:Forest
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I removed the sentence about the biome. See definition of what of biome is. Compare with biota. User:anthere
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[edit] Encarta
- For ideas about what should be written on such a broad topic you can see Encrata's forest article. BrokenSegue 03:58, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)
I've noticed that Evergreen forest is a red link. Would it be worth it to devote an entire article to just evergreen forests?? Jaberwocky6669 July 2, 2005 04:32 (UTC)
- I'm not sure that "evergreen forest" is a very natural category, but there is no reason it couldn't be an article. A more natural breakdown might be coniferous vs non-coniferous forests Jeeb 05:02, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Species diversity in forests
So why do forests have many species of trees in them? I would expect that each forest would exist at a specific climate, and that natural selection would lead to fairly homogenous tree populations. Why doesn't that happen? -- Creidieki 4 July 2005 03:15 (UTC)
- That's one of the big questions in community ecology. Guettarda 4 July 2005 03:50 (UTC)
- They don't always. Vast areas are covered by species-poor communities, particularly at high latitudes or elevations. Biophysical constraints in more extreme environments probably constrains what is possible evolutionarily, limiting species richness.
Jeeb 00:14, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
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- Granted, but even then you can't explain the diversity of forest trees in terms of single limiting nutients. Guettarda 01:28, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
- I believe in the UK a forest is a hunting ground, set aside by the king or another noble. An area such as the New Forest in Hampshire, UK is a forest, despite contianing large areas of heathland and meadows. The term, forest has been taken to mean an area of woodland since then as many hunting grounds contained woodland. User sjc503. 24th May 2006
[edit] Forest coverage
I removed the "see also" link to this redlink. Feel free to re-add it once the article is written, but as it stands I don't really see what the scope of that article would be (forest cover, by biome, would be meaningful, but should be in the appropriate article. Guettarda 19:29, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Photo's
I've included a photo of Australian Forest to broaden it from the European and North American Variety. It would be good to obtain a picture from Africa and South America of another Habitat, like Mallee scrub or dry snow covered forest. Enlil Ninlil 05:32, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Culture
We could do with a popular culture section, because trees and forests feature in almost every type literature ever as places of magic and nature and whatnot. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.155.221.227 (talk) 18:21, 5 December 2006 (UTC).
