brown forest soils
1Brown earth — is a type of soil. Brown earths are mostly located between 30° and 55° north of the Equator. The largest expanses cover western and central Europe, large areas of western and trans Uralian Russia, the east coast of America and eastern Asia. Here …
2brown earth — noun : any of a group of intrazonal soils developed in temperate humid regions under deciduous forests from parent material relatively rich in bases and characterized by a dark brown mull horizon that grades through lighter colored soil into… …
3Brown — This article is about the color. For other uses, see Brown (disambiguation). Brown …
4brown podzolic soil — noun : any of a group of acid zonal soils developed in temperature or cool temperate humid regions under deciduous or mixed deciduous and coniferous forest and characterized by dark brown humus mineral soil covered with a thin mat of partly… …
5temperate forest — ▪ ecology Introduction vegetation type with a more or less continuous canopy of broad leaved trees. Such forests occur between approximately 25° and 50° latitude in both hemispheres (seeFigure 1 >). Toward the polar regions they grade into… …
6reddish-brown lateritic soil — noun : any of a group of zonal soils developed under humid tropical forest vegetation that have granular dark reddish brown surface soils underlain by reddish friable clay B horizons and red reticulately mottled lateritic parent material …
7Ituri Forest — ▪ forest, Democratic Republic of the Congo Introduction French Forêt de L Ituri dense tropical rainforest lying on the northeastern lip of the Congo River basin in the Central African nation of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Congo).… …
8Fernbank Forest — is a 65 acre (25 hectares) mature mixed forest located at the Fernbank Science Center in Atlanta, Georgia. It has one of the few remnants of original forest vegetation in the Georgia Piedmont; as such, it has been extensively studied by… …
9Delamere Forest — Deciduous woodland at Delamere Forest in autumn Delamere Forest or Delamere Forest Park is a wood in the Cheshire West and Chester area of Cheshire, England, near the town of Frodsham. It includes 972 hectares (2,400 acres) of mixed deciduous …
10deciduous forest — ▪ biology vegetation composed primarily of broad leaved trees that shed all their leaves during one season. Deciduous forest is found in three middle latitude regions with a temperate climate characterized by a winter season and year round… …
