"Temperate forests" refers to forests that grow in regions with mild to moderate climates, where the temperature and precipitation levels are neither extreme nor too excessive. Full definition
Examples are flightless birds like the African ostrich and the Australian emu and Southern Beeches, a genus of 36 species of trees and shrubs which appear in temperate forests from South America to Australia and New Zealand. (sciencedaily.com)
He is currently a partner in Ecosystem Services LLC whose business incubator is the coastal temperate forests of North America where he labors happily to strike a lasting balance between human communities and the natural systems of which they are an inextricable part. (nwei.org)
A cross section of most temperate forest tree trunks16 will reveal an alternation of lighter and darker bands, each of which is usually continuous around the tree circumference. (climateaudit.org)