Temperate forests, warm

Beever, J. B. (1984) Moss epiphytes of tree-ferns in a warm-temperate forest. Journal of the Hattori Botanical Laboratory, 56 89-95. 

Present studies in warm and temperate region. At present, we are assessing the allelopathic potential of weeds from a tropical region of the country (Uxpanapa, Veracruz), as a complement to the project entitled Recovery of Tropical Rain Forests from INIREB. This information is necessary to permit more efficient agricultural and forest management of the secondary vegetation in the tropics. 

Tanaka M., Sugi Y., Tanaka S., Mishima Y., and Hamada R. (1978) Animal population, biomass and production. Soil invertebrates. In Biological Production in a Warm Temperate Evergreen Oak Forest of Japan (eds. T. Kira, Y. Ono, and T. Hosokawa). University of Tokyo Press, pp. 147-163. 

Because of low-latitude aridity, there appears to have been no recognizable tropical rain-forests.The moisture from high evaporation rates at low latitude was transported to high latitude, where the moist and temperate conditions, with few frosts, provided favourable conditions for the growth of forests near both poles, and significant deposits of coal were formed (see Fig. 3.14 Saward 1992 Parrish et al. 1982). The relatively warm... 

Interestingly, the relations between soil pH and N supply found along the short transect at Betsele are very much the same as those proposed by Read (1986 1991) as typical for long latitudinal and altitudinal gradients from polar/Alpine conditions through temperate coniferous forests and nemoral deciduous forests to dry and warm temperate steppe conditions. Read proposed that under cold and wet conditions, decomposition of organic matter would be slow and incomplete and result in the formation of acid, peaty soils or thick mor-layers with slow mineralization of organic... 

The most typical podzols are usually those formed under coniferous forests less typical are the podzol-like soils formed chiefly under deciduous forests or in a warm climate. In many areas of the United States these two types of vegetation occur in mixture and the resulting soil shows characteristics that are intermediate between the two. In other cases, where man has interfered with nature, deciduous trees may follow coniferous ones, or the reverse. The podzol-like soils are commonly referred to as either gray-brown forest soils of the Temperate Zone or red and yellow podzolic soils of the warmer regions. 

Warming would cause major shifts in the areas of natural ecosystem types such as temperate or boreal forest, prairie and tundra. At the IPCC projected levels of warming the boundaries of biomes could shift towards the poles by several hundred kilometers. 

The Wawel Interglacial (Oligocene/Miocene transition, 26-22 Ma) began with recolonization of ice-free land area by temperate (cool and warm) Nothofagus rain forests. A shallow marine inclusion followed. 

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