Question

What are the features of temperate broadleaf and mixed forest ?​

Answer 1

typify the composition of the Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests (TBMF). Structurally, these forests are characterized by 4 layers: a canopy composed of mature full-sized dominant species and a slightly lower layer of mature trees, a shrub layer, and understory layer of grasses and other herbaceous plants.

Answer 2

Features:

• Typify the composition of the Temperature Broadleaf and Mixed Forests (TBMF). Structurally, these forests are cahracterized by 4 layers: a canopy composed of mature full-sized dominant species and a slightly lower layer of mature trees, a shrub layers, and understory layer of grasses and other herbaceous plants.
• In contrast to tropical rain forests, most biodiversity is concentrated much closer to the forest floor.
• TBMF are richest and  most distinctive in Central China and Eastern North America, with some other globally distinctive ecoregions in the Caucasus, the Himalayas.

Biodiversity patterns:

        Most dominant species have widespread distributions, but in many ecoregions there can be large number of ecoregional and local endemics.

Minimum requirement:

        Large native carnivores require large natural landscape to persist, periodic large-scale disturbance event such as fire necessiate the conversion of large blocks of forests.

Sensitivity to disturbances:

        Certain species are highly sensitive to habitat fragementation such as breeding songbirds exposed to parasitism or elevated nest predation: the loss of large native predators has many cascading impacts on forests structure and ecology.