Eastern Himalayan broadleaf forests
Eastern Himalayan broadleaf forests
The Eastern Himalayan broadleaf forests form a narrow temperate band on steep mountain slopes between roughly 2,000 and 3,000 meters, running from the Kali Gandaki River gorge in central Nepal through Sikkim and West Bengal, Bhutan, and India's Arunachal Pradesh into adjoining Myanmar and China. Two forest types define it: temperate evergreen stands of oaks, rhododendrons, magnolia, and cinnamon, and temperate deciduous forest dominated by maple, walnut, alder, and birch. The climate is strongly monsoonal, with most of the region's rainfall (over 2,000 mm a year) falling between May and September. Sitting where several floristic zones meet, it is exceptionally rich in oaks and rhododendrons, with Sikkim holding over fifty rhododendron species and Bhutan more than sixty, and it shelters wildlife such as the clouded leopard and red panda. For gardeners, this is the native heartland of many prized ornamentals, including Rhododendron, Magnolia, and Himalayan maple (Acer campbellii).
RESOLVE 306
Indomalayan
32,060 sq mi
Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests
Tipo de paisagem
Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests
Região vegetal
Indomalayan
Pegada da região
32,060 sq mi
Pressão sobre o habitat
Nature Could Reach Half Protected (Dinerstein NNH 2)
Origem e cuidado
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Use isto como o padrão geral de plantio para a região: Four-season forests of deciduous hardwoods — oak, maple, beech — often mixed with conifers, shaped by warm summers and cold winters. Trees leaf out in spring and color in autumn; the generally fertile soils have made these forests heavily settled and farmed. Para decisões de jardim, combine esse contexto com a lista de plantas abaixo e depois refine pelas restrições de luz, água, solo e tamanho adulto do seu local.
Range & origins
Marker placed inside the RESOLVE 2017 polygon at 27.8°N, 94.5°E.
A região ao longo do tempo
Pegada moderna
RESOLVE 2017 mapeia 32,060 sq mi
Este limite é uma pegada ecológica moderna de Eastern Himalayan broadleaf forests, não uma linha permanente no planeta. É útil para o contexto atual de plantas e fauna porque segue padrões recorrentes de vegetação, clima, relevo e perturbações.
Por que aqui
Condições de temperate broadleaf & mixed forests
A região fica no reino Indomalayan e é classificada como temperate broadleaf & mixed forests. Altitude, umidade, fogo, solos, costas e o uso humano da terra podem tornar a paisagem real mais variada do que uma única cor no mapa sugere.
Pressão de mudança
Nature Could Reach Half Protected
O Plotwright mostra isto como a pegada RESOLVE atual. Ao longo de décadas a séculos, o aquecimento, as perturbações, as espécies invasoras, o uso da terra e a restauração podem mover a borda viva de uma região mesmo quando o mapa de referência permanece fixo.
Coleções de plantio
Receitas de plantio prontas em que cada membro aguenta a faixa climática desta região. O selo de encaixe usa a planta mais sensível da coleção, então uma coleção resiliente é um ponto de partida mais seguro do que qualquer destaque isolado.
Resiliente ao clima · 2 plantas
Bright shade foundation
A part-shade planting with shrub structure and low foliage contrast.
Resiliente ao clima · 8 plantas
Climate-resilient natives for warming zones (eastern NA)
A pollinator-supporting palette of eastern North American natives with broad hardiness ranges and wide native distributions. Built for gardeners who want a planting that can handle warming zones without giving up wildlife value.
Resiliente ao clima · 3 plantas
Kitchen patio planters
A compact edible collection for containers, patios, and near-door harvesting.
Resiliente ao clima · 6 plantas
Mediterranean drought-tolerant edible
A low-water edible palette of culinary herbs + a hardy grape for hot dry sunny sites. Mediterranean-origin plants thrive on neglect; their primary failure mode is overwatering, not underwatering.
Resiliente ao clima · 9 plantas
Native pollinator border (eastern US)
A continuous-bloom native pollinator strip for eastern North America. Covers spring through frost with host + nectar plants spanning monarchs, native bees, hummingbirds, and specialist Lepidoptera. Little bluestem provides the matrix grass + Hesperiidae host.
Resiliente ao clima · 4 plantas
Sunny pollinator border
A durable sunny border with summer bloom, seedheads, and upright winter texture.
Regiões de plantio semelhantes
Explore outras regiões com um ritmo semelhante de verões quentes e secos. Suas listas de plantas podem sugerir espécies e combinações que valem a pena comparar.
RESOLVE 307 - Indomalayan
Northern Triangle temperate forests
The Northern Triangle temperate forests cloak the steep mountains of far northern Myanmar, in Kachin State and the Sagaing Region, along the southern slopes of the Namkiu Mountains and the Patkai Range on the Myanmar-India border, marking the easternmost extension of the Himalayas. Between roughly 1,830 and 2,700 meters, temperate broadleaf forests of alder (Alnus), chinkapin (Castanopsis), Schima, Michelia, and oak (Quercus) give way at higher elevations to mixed stands where magnolia, maple (Acer), Prunus, and rhododendron mingle with conifers such as Picea, Himalayan hemlock (Tsuga), larch (Larix), and Taiwania. This is a cool, moist montane climate, with peaks rising above 3,000 meters and feeding major rivers. The region shelters exceptional biodiversity, including roughly 90 mammal species and over 365 birds, among them the red panda, clouded leopard, Indochinese tiger, and the flagship takin, plus the endemic Gongshan muntjac and rusty-bellied shortwing. For gardeners, these forests are a native home to prized ornamental genera, including Rhododendron, Magnolia, Acer, Hydrangea, Enkianthus, Berberis, and Sorbus.
Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests
Zones 9a-12b
+4.2°F by 2070
4,141 sq mi
NNH tier 2
RESOLVE 308 - Indomalayan
Western Himalayan broadleaf forests
The Western Himalayan broadleaf forests form a narrow temperate band through the middle elevations of the western Himalaya, roughly 1,500 to 2,600 meters, running from central Nepal across northwestern India into Pakistan. The ecoregion holds two forest types: evergreen stands dominated by Himalayan oaks such as Quercus semecarpifolia, Q. leucotrichophora and Q. floribunda, and deciduous forests of walnut, Himalayan horse chestnut, maple, alder, Himalayan poplar and elm. Its climate is governed by the southwest monsoon, which delivers rain from roughly June to September, though this western stretch is drier than the eastern Himalaya. The forests support a rich avifauna of around 315 bird species, including pheasants like the Himalayan monal and koklass, alongside about 76 mammals such as the Asiatic black bear, which serves as the flagship species. For gardeners, the region is the native home of several familiar ornamental and shade trees, among them maples, Himalayan horse chestnut, oriental plane and walnut.
Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests
Zones 4a-11b
+5.1°F by 2070
21,574 sq mi
NNH tier 3
RESOLVE 328 - Nearctic
Allegheny Highlands forests
The Allegheny Highlands forests stretch across the Allegheny Plateau of Pennsylvania and New York, a hilly landscape of deeply cut river valleys, waterfalls, and—in the glaciated New York portion—the Finger Lakes. Under a cold temperate climate, pre-settlement forests were dominated by hemlock-white pine-northern hardwoods, with eastern hemlock and beech most abundant alongside sugar maple, red maple, birch, white ash, and black cherry. Eastern hemlock, the ecoregion's flagship species, is now declining across much of the region due to the introduced hemlock woolly adelgid, while over-abundant white-tailed deer suppress forest regeneration.
Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests
Zones 8b-9a
+7.2°F by 2070
28,229 sq mi
NNH tier 2
RESOLVE 329 - Nearctic
Appalachian mixed mesophytic forests
The Mixed Mesophytic — the most species-diverse temperate hardwood forest in North America — covers the Cumberland Plateau and adjacent unglaciated dissected uplands of West Virginia, eastern Kentucky, southern Ohio, southwestern Virginia, and eastern Tennessee. Sugar maple, American beech, tulip poplar, yellow buckeye, basswood, and white ash share cove-forest canopies with more than two dozen co-dominant species — a richness inherited from being ice-sheet-free during the Pleistocene.
Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests
Zones 9a-11a
+5.6°F by 2070
70,054 sq mi
Editorial profile
NNH tier 2
RESOLVE 331 - Nearctic
Appalachian-Blue Ridge forests
The Blue Ridge province — the eastern spine of the southern Appalachians from southern Pennsylvania through northern Georgia. Cove hardwoods on protected slopes, oak-hickory mid-slope, northern hardwoods + spruce-fir on the highest peaks (Mt. Mitchell to 6,684 ft). Long the eastern US's wettest non-coastal region; many endemic plants tied to perched coves.
Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests
Zones 9a-12b
+5.4°F by 2070
63,065 sq mi
Editorial profile
NNH tier 2
RESOLVE 644 - Palearctic
Appenine deciduous montane forests
The Apennine deciduous montane forests occupy the higher elevations of the Apennine Mountains running down the spine of the Italian peninsula, surviving as disconnected patches that stretch southward for over 350 kilometers through central Italy. The dominant cover is montane broadleaf forest led by European beech (Fagus sylvatica), often mixed with silver fir (Abies alba), deciduous oaks (Quercus), maples (Acer), whitebeams and rowans (Sorbus), with cold meadows and grasslands taking over above the treeline. The climate is temperate-cool and notably wet, with rainfall ranging from roughly 1,000 mm in the southern mountains to 2,500 mm in the north and abundant winter snow at altitude. The ecoregion is the last stronghold of the critically endangered Marsican brown bear and the endemic Apennine (Abruzzo) chamois, and a 2017 assessment found about 46 percent of its area falls within protected reserves such as Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise National Park. For gardeners, several ornamental woody genera native here, including holly (Ilex aquifolium), yew (Taxus baccata) and linden (Tilia), are familiar temperate landscape plants.
Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests
Zones 10a-12a
+3.4°F by 2070
6,223 sq mi
NNH tier 2
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RESOLVE 2017 Terrestrial Ecoregions (Dinerstein et al.)
Estrutura principal de ecorregiões
Backs 4 fields
ID do RESOLVE
Bioma + reino
Área
Nível NNH