Bottomland forest
Bottomland forest is woodland on lowland alluvial floodplains or lower terraces of rivers and streams.[1] Bottomland forest is very rare in Europe.[2] The bottomland hardwood forest is a type of deciduous and evergreen hardwood forest found in broad lowland floodplains along large rivers and lakes in the United States[3] and elsewhere.[4] They are occasionally flooded, which builds up the alluvial soils required for the gum, oak and bald cypress trees that typically grow in this type of biome.[5] The trees often develop unique characteristics to allow submergence, including cypress knees and fluted trunks, but can not survive continuous flooding.[6]
Typical examples of this forest type are found throughout the Gulf Coast states, and along the Mississippi River in the United States. It is estimated there were Script error: No such module "convert". in the region before foresting and farming reduced it to approximately Script error: No such module "convert". today.[7][8]
On the Black Sea coast of Turkey there is Lake Saka Nature Reserve in İğneada Floodplain Forests National Park, Sarıkum Nature Reserve in Sinop, and Template:Interlanguage link in Samsun.[9]
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- ↑ Yin, Yao, et al. “Bottomland Hardwood Forests along the Upper Mississippi River.” Natural Areas Journal, vol. 17, no. 2, 1997, pp. 164–73. JSTOR website Retrieved 6 Jan. 2023.
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