Valdivian temperate forests
Valdivian temperate forests
The Valdivian temperate forests stretch down the southern cone of South America, occupying a narrow strip in Chile and Argentina between the western slope of the Andes and the Pacific Ocean. They are dominated by evergreen southern beeches of the genus Nothofagus alongside long-lived conifers, including the alerce (Fitzroya cupressoides) and the monkey puzzle tree (Araucaria araucana), over a dense understory of Chusquea bamboos, ferns, and the giant-leaved Gunnera tinctoria. The climate is shaped by the prevailing westerlies, and orographic rainfall climbs from around 1,000 mm a year at the northern edge to more than 6,000 mm in the south. These are the only temperate rainforests in South America, where the alerce ranks among the tallest and longest-lived trees on the continent and roughly half of the woody plant species are found nowhere else. Gardeners may recognize Chile's national flower, the climbing copihue (Lapageria rosea), as a native of these forests.
RESOLVE 563
Neotropic
95,957 sq mi
Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests
Tipo de paisaje
Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests
Región vegetal
Neotropic
Huella de la región
95,957 sq mi
Presión sobre el hábitat
Nature Could Reach Half Protected (Dinerstein NNH 2)
Origen y cuidado
Patrocinado
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Usa esto como el patrón general de plantación para la región: Four-season forests of deciduous hardwoods — oak, maple, beech — often mixed with conifers, shaped by warm summers and cold winters. Trees leaf out in spring and color in autumn; the generally fertile soils have made these forests heavily settled and farmed. Para las decisiones de jardín, combina ese contexto con la lista de plantas de abajo y luego acota según las restricciones de luz, agua, suelo y tamaño maduro de tu sitio.
Range & origins
Marcador situado dentro del polígono RESOLVE 2017 en 40.6°S, 72.2°W.
La región a través del tiempo
Huella moderna
RESOLVE 2017 mapea 95,957 sq mi
Este límite es una huella ecológica moderna para Valdivian temperate forests, no una línea permanente en el planeta. Resulta útil para el contexto actual de plantas y fauna porque sigue patrones recurrentes de vegetación, clima, relieve y perturbaciones.
Por qué aquí
Condiciones de temperate broadleaf & mixed forests
La región se ubica en el reino Neotropic y se clasifica como temperate broadleaf & mixed forests. La altitud, la humedad, el fuego, los suelos, las costas y el uso humano del suelo pueden hacer que el paisaje real sea más variado de lo que sugiere un único color en el mapa.
Presión de cambio
Nature Could Reach Half Protected
Plotwright muestra esto como la huella actual de RESOLVE. A lo largo de décadas o siglos, el calentamiento, las perturbaciones, las especies invasoras, el uso del suelo y la restauración pueden desplazar el borde vivo de una región aunque el mapa de referencia permanezca fijo.
Regiones de plantación similares
Explora otras regiones con un ritmo similar de veranos calurosos y secos. Sus listas de plantas pueden sugerir especies y combinaciones que vale la pena comparar.
RESOLVE 560 - Neotropic
Juan Fernández Islands temperate forests
The Juan Fernández Islands temperate forests cover a small Chilean archipelago in the southeastern Pacific roughly 665 kilometers off the mainland, made up of Robinson Crusoe, Alejandro Selkirk, and Santa Clara islands. Vegetation grades by elevation from grassy lower slopes into tall forests, with lowland stands dominated by the endemic trees Drimys confertifolia and Myrceugenia, while tree ferns such as Dicksonia and Thyrsopteris and the endangered chonta palm (Juania australis) occur on the islands. The climate is subtropical, moderated by the cold Humboldt Current and southeast trade winds that bring higher rainfall in winter and drier summers. These isolated forests carry an exceptionally high level of endemic vascular plants, including the endemic plant family Lactoridaceae, and host the Juan Fernández firecrown, the only hummingbird endemic to an oceanic island. The archipelago is protected as a national park and World Biosphere Reserve, yet more than half of its endemic plants are threatened, chiefly by introduced goats and rabbits.
Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests
Zonas 12a
+1.4°F para 2070
56 sq mi
Nivel NNH 3
RESOLVE 561 - Neotropic
Magellanic subpolar forests
The Magellanic subpolar forests cloak the flanks of the southern Andes and adjacent lowlands of southernmost South America, spanning southern Chile and Argentina out to the Tierra del Fuego archipelago and holding the world's southernmost forests. Southern beeches of the genus Nothofagus dominate, with evergreen Magellan's beech (Nothofagus betuloides) to the wetter west giving way to deciduous lenga (N. pumilio) and nire (N. antarctica) toward the east, alongside Drimys winteri and the conifer Pilgerodendron uviferum. The climate is cold and wet, shaped by strong westerly winds that bend exposed trees into distinctive flag forms, with rainfall falling sharply from the western slopes to the drier eastern margin. The region shelters notable wildlife including the southern pudu, the world's smallest deer, and the Chilean huemul, while the introduced North American beaver remains a significant invasive threat. For gardeners, the native Drimys winteri, known as Winter's bark, is grown ornamentally for its aromatic evergreen foliage.
Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests
Zonas 9a-11a
+2.8°F para 2070
63,386 sq mi
Nivel NNH 3
RESOLVE 562 - Neotropic
San Félix-San Ambrosio Islands temperate forests
The San Félix-San Ambrosio Islands temperate forests cover Chile's tiny, volcanic Desventuradas Islands, San Félix and San Ambrosio, which sit roughly 850 kilometers off the South American mainland in the Pacific. Despite the "temperate forests" name, the islands carry no true forest: vegetation is sparse, arid scrubland of low cushion-forming bushes, with denser growth only where fog collects on San Ambrosio. The flagship plant, Thamnoseris lacerata, is an endemic shrub and the only species in its genus, found nowhere else on Earth and forming clusters and hedges along the bases of cliffs. The climate is Mediterranean, warm, moist and oceanic, with very low annual rainfall falling mainly in winter and no permanent freshwater, so the islands depend heavily on fog for moisture. Land vertebrates are limited to birds, including marine seabirds and a single land bird, and the surrounding waters gained protection in 2015 through the Nazca-Desventuradas Marine Park, one of the largest marine reserves in the Americas.
Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests
Zonas 12b
+1.5°F para 2070
3 sq mi
Nivel NNH 1
RESOLVE 328 - Nearctic
Allegheny Highlands forests
The Allegheny Highlands forests stretch across the Allegheny Plateau of Pennsylvania and New York, a hilly landscape of deeply cut river valleys, waterfalls, and—in the glaciated New York portion—the Finger Lakes. Under a cold temperate climate, pre-settlement forests were dominated by hemlock-white pine-northern hardwoods, with eastern hemlock and beech most abundant alongside sugar maple, red maple, birch, white ash, and black cherry. Eastern hemlock, the ecoregion's flagship species, is now declining across much of the region due to the introduced hemlock woolly adelgid, while over-abundant white-tailed deer suppress forest regeneration.
Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests
Zonas 8b-9a
+7.2°F para 2070
28,229 sq mi
Nivel NNH 2
RESOLVE 329 - Nearctic
Appalachian mixed mesophytic forests
The Mixed Mesophytic — the most species-diverse temperate hardwood forest in North America — covers the Cumberland Plateau and adjacent unglaciated dissected uplands of West Virginia, eastern Kentucky, southern Ohio, southwestern Virginia, and eastern Tennessee. Sugar maple, American beech, tulip poplar, yellow buckeye, basswood, and white ash share cove-forest canopies with more than two dozen co-dominant species — a richness inherited from being ice-sheet-free during the Pleistocene.
Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests
Zonas 9a-11a
+5.6°F para 2070
70,054 sq mi
Perfil editorial
Nivel NNH 2
RESOLVE 331 - Nearctic
Appalachian-Blue Ridge forests
The Blue Ridge province — the eastern spine of the southern Appalachians from southern Pennsylvania through northern Georgia. Cove hardwoods on protected slopes, oak-hickory mid-slope, northern hardwoods + spruce-fir on the highest peaks (Mt. Mitchell to 6,684 ft). Long the eastern US's wettest non-coastal region; many endemic plants tied to perched coves.
Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests
Zonas 9a-12b
+5.4°F para 2070
63,065 sq mi
Perfil editorial
Nivel NNH 2
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