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Belovezhskaya Forest Geographic distribution of the world's forests by categories of wood Boreal forest Oulanka National Park, Finland: coniferous forest Adirondack Mountains Tropical rainforest Deciduous forest
How bacteria recycle forest litter into minerals
Bohemian waxwing Prescribed fire
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Chutes d'Ekom - a waterfall on the Nkam river in the rainforest near Melong, in the western highlands of Cameroon in Africa.
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Belovezhskaya Forest
Geographic distribution of the world's forests by categories of wood
Boreal forest
Oulanka National Park, Finland: coniferous forest
Adirondack Mountains
Tropical rainforest
Deciduous forest
Bohemian waxwing
Prescribed fire
Worldwide distribution of boreal forests.
How bacteria recycle forest litter into minerals
Understanding biomass in forests
How does a forest recover after a wildfire?
How an ecosystem works
Know about the role of fungi in the forest ecosystem, where some digest plant matter, while others team with the plant (mycorrhizal) mutually
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