Biome

Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests

The Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests biome gathers 83 ecoregions in Plotwright's worldwide roster. 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.

Allegheny Highlands forests Appalachian mixed mesophytic forests Appalachian-Blue Ridge forests Appenine deciduous montane forests Azores temperate mixed forests Balkan mixed forests Baltic mixed forests Cantabrian mixed forests Caspian Hyrcanian mixed forests Caucasus mixed forests Celtic broadleaf forests Central Anatolian steppe and woodlands Central China Loess Plateau mixed forests Central European mixed forests Central Korean deciduous forests Changbai Mountains mixed forests Changjiang Plain evergreen forests Chatham Island temperate forests Crimean Submediterranean forest complex Daba Mountains evergreen forests Dinaric Mountains mixed forests East Central Texas forests East European forest steppe Eastern Anatolian deciduous forests Eastern Australian temperate forests Eastern Canadian Forest-Boreal transition Eastern Great Lakes lowland forests Eastern Himalayan broadleaf forests English Lowlands beech forests European Atlantic mixed forests Euxine-Colchic broadleaf forests Fiordland temperate forests Gulf of St. Lawrence lowland forests Hokkaido deciduous forests Huang He Plain mixed forests Interior Plateau US Hardwood Forests Juan Fernández Islands temperate forests Madeira evergreen forests Magellanic subpolar forests Manchurian mixed forests Mississippi lowland forests Nelson Coast temperate forests New Zealand North Island temperate forests New Zealand South Island temperate forests Nihonkai evergreen forests Nihonkai montane deciduous forests North Atlantic moist mixed forests Northeast China Plain deciduous forests Northeastern Coastal Forests Northeastern Hardwoods Northern Triangle temperate forests Northland temperate kauri forests Ozark Highlands mixed forests Ozark Mountain forests Pannonian mixed forests Piedmont Po Basin mixed forests Pyrenees conifer and mixed forests Qin Ling Mountains deciduous forests Rakiura Island temperate forests Richmond temperate forests Rodope montane mixed forests San Félix-San Ambrosio Islands temperate forests Sarmatic mixed forests Sichuan Basin evergreen broadleaf forests Southeast Australia temperate forests Southern Great Lakes forests Southern Korea evergreen forests Taiheiyo evergreen forests Taiheiyo montane deciduous forests Tarim Basin deciduous forests and steppe Tasmanian Central Highland forests Tasmanian temperate forests Tasmanian temperate rain forests Upper Midwest US forest-savanna transition Ussuri broadleaf and mixed forests Valdivian temperate forests Western European broadleaf forests Western Great Lakes forests Western Himalayan broadleaf forests Western Siberian hemiboreal forests Westland temperate forests Zagros Mountains forest steppe