GEOG 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Pulpwood, Secondary Forest, Clearcutting
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Tropical forests- equator in south america, africa, and parts of asia. Massive coverage, species, matter and rates of growth. Made up of mostly rainforest and monsoon forests. Northern coniferous forests. - midlatitudes to northern limits of forest growth in the subarctic. Majority of the world"s lumber and pulpwood. Boreal forests: central and southern canada, scandinavia, eurasia. Temperatre: south of coniferous forests. (beech, maple and oak dominate). Most frontier stands of hardwoods in north america and europe have been cleared for agriculture, and most forest are secondary forest and tree plantations. Integral part of carbon and water cycle -some people depend on forests for their livelihood. Lumber fuel wood and other forest products: As developing countries grow, their need for lumber as a source of fuel grows, and they are using it at a rate faster than it can grow back. This is an effort to maintain the supply of wood.
