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  [Aroid-l] When is a rain forest not a rain forest?
From: plantguy at zoominternet.net (Daniel Devor) on 2008.05.01 at 23:17:08(17522)
Most people consider the coastal temperate rainforest extending from Oregon to Alaska to be a rainforest atleast in name and it is considered to have one of the most complex ecosystems in the world, although not as diverse as the tropical rainforests to which you refer......this obviously begs the question of exactly how a "rainforest" is defined. When you hike through it you are certainly overwhelmed by the understory plants, or atleast I was. So, are all texts inaccurate when they describe the forests of our pacific northwest this way? Just curious,

Dan

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