| Variables such as climate, sunlight, rainfall, soil and elevation determine the character of a forest -- whether it consists of small needle-leaved juniper, pine, spruce, or dense tropical vegetation thick with vines and buttressed trees, or open, dry woodland dominated by giant Ponderosa pine. |
| There is no one point where a tropical forest suddenly becomes temperate, no definite line where a boreal forest switches to broadleaf. the various categories we have for different types of forests are of course useful, but there are also large transition areas which may fit into several categories, or none at all. |
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