Preferred term
forest
Definition
- [GEMET] A vegetation community dominated by trees and other woody shrubs, growing close enough together that the tree tops touch or overlap, creating various degrees of shade on the forest floor. It may produce benefits such as timber, recreation, wildlife habitat, etc.
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- amazonian rain forest
- atlantic forest
- atlantic rainforest
- beech forest
- boreal forest
- Chaparral
- coniferous forest
- deciduous forest
- dry evergreen forest
- dry tropical forest
- evergreen forest
- floodplain forest
- forest ecosystem
- gallery forest
- lowland rain forest
- mangrove forest
- mixed conifer forest
- mixed forest
- montane forest
- northern hardwood forest
- oak forest
- old growth forest
- peat swamp forest
- pine forest
- rain forest
- rainforest
- riparian forest
- secondary forest
- taiga
- temperate forest
- temperate rainforest
- tropical deciduous forest
- tropical dry forest
- tropical forest
- tropical montane forest
- tropical rain forest
- tropical trees
- tropical wet forest
- woodland and forest
Scope note
- US LTER controlled vocabulary
Contributor
- nsb@ceh.ac.uk@ceh.ac.uk
Creator
- herbert.schentz@umweltbundesamt.at
In other languages
Chinese
- 森林
Japanese
- 森林
URI
http://vocabs.lter-europe.net/EnvThes/21819