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Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 21 January 2019 and 10 May 2019. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Robert Haake. Peer reviewers: Aaron7453.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 07:46, 17 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Temperate Forests

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There was not much information rgearding the temperate forests. They list locations but do not specify what a temperate forest is and what kinds of organisms live there. I found a link to some basic information that could be put in under the Temperate Forests section. [1]

References

  1. ^ Luke, Marianne. "What is a Temperate Forest?". Retrieved 25 April 2019.

Definition of "Rainforest”

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This article starts with a statement defining rainforest in terms of rainfall. The reference seems to be deadlinked, but is apparently an article about "tropical rainforest". In Australia, at least, rainforest is not defined by rainfall, but by the types of vegetation found there - in particular, epiphytes, lianes (lianas), the absence of sclerophyllous tree such as eucalypts, and importantly a closed canopy. One of the problems with defining rainforest as having annual rainfall between "2.5 and 4.5 metres", is that it precludes the important, although uncommon, dry rainforest, and possibly other types as well.

I propose to rewrite the lead paragraph, defining rainforest in terms of the structure and types of vegetation found in them, and to change the headings "Tropical" and "Temperate" to "Tropical rainforest" and "Temperate rainforest" respecively and to add another - "Other types of rainforest".

For those who may not have heard of "dry rainforest", I include some references[1][2][3][4][5] and hope to read the thoughts and opinions of other editors. Gderrin (talk) 08:45, 2 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

References

  1. ^ "Western Sydney Dry Rainforest" (PDF). New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service. Retrieved 2 July 2021.
  2. ^ "Dry Rainforest". Tasmanian Government Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment. Retrieved 2 July 2021.
  3. ^ "Dry Rainforest of South-East Queensland". Land for Wildlife- South East Queensland. Retrieved 2 July 2021.
  4. ^ "Dry Rainforest". Queensland Government Department of Environment and Science. Retrieved 2 July 2021.
  5. ^ "Gondwana Rainforests of Australia". International Union for Conservation of Nature and UN Environment World Conservation Monitorin Centre. Retrieved 2 July 2021.