Concept in Definition ABC

It is called with the term of Forest to those areas with a high density of trees. Forests are something similar to a community, but of plants, which cover an important portion of the planet earth and which also function as the habitat of some animals, as modulators of hydrological flows and they have a function that is as decisive as it is important, such as conserving soil.

A forest can develop and be found in all those regions capable of maintaining the growth of trees up to the so-called tree line, except those in the which the frequency of natural fire is very high or in those places in which the environment was damaged or damaged by the action of natural agents or by activity human.

Another unique characteristic of forests is that in these branches and foliage, even those of different trees, it is frequent that these meet and intertwine.

We can divide forests into several types according to the environment, longevity and the type of leaves they bear..

Boreal forests occupy the subarctic zone and generally have coniferous, evergreen leaves. Broadleaf and tropical and subtropical forests are mainly found in temperate zone forests.

Although history also intervenes in the differentiation of forests, thus remaining... primary, they did not undergo modifications androgens, secondary, have regenerated after a first partial or total felling and the artificial ones that were planted by man to any end.

Forest ecology is the science that studies forests and their administration is known as forestry, which has the responsibility that the extraction of those resources sustainable, such as logging, do not affect the evolution, growth and life of the forest. Likewise, it also deals with the prevention and take care of these to prevent others factors as the rain acid, fires, and pests, highly damaging, harm them.

Of course, in addition to all these cares that are destined for the conservation of ecosystem of a forest must be helped by man, avoiding the practice of any activity that certainly contributes to its deterioration or damage.