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Resources and information about the forests and their importance for the world

What is a Forest?

  • The word forest does not imply woodland.
  • The forest ecosystem includes additional species.
  • A forest contains physical and chemical processes, such as energy flow and nutrient cycling.
  • Forests include smaller plants, fungi, bacteria, animals, shrub layer, herb layer and moss layer.
  • Forests are basic to human life because they store carbon, produce oxygen, regulate climate, purify the water.
  • Forests contain 90% of the terrestrial biodiversity.

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