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tropical forest
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generic forest in the tropics
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- vegetational formation
- Subclass of
- forest
- Image
- Guyane fr savane-roche virginie.jpg
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- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- Commons category
- Tropical forest
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Encyclopedic overview
Tropical forests are forested ecoregions with tropical climates – that is, land areas approximately bounded by the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, but possibly affected by other factors such as prevailing winds.
Borneo rainforest
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