KS3/GCSE Geography. Deciduous forests. Investigating the New Forest and the layers that make it up, as well as how animals have adapted to live there. Suitable for teaching Geography at KS3, GCSE ...

Paxson Woelber/Flickr, CC BY Deciduous trees take over When severe fires in black spruce forests burn deep into the soil organic layer, more carbon is lost during the blaze.

The primary tropical rainforest is divided into at least five layers: the overstory, the true canopy, the understory, the shrub layer, and the forest floor.

Much like deciduous forests, tropical rainforests are made up of a number of layers. The ground layer is very dark and due to the heat is very steamy, with only 2% of light penetrating through.

Japanese black bears (Ursus thibetanus japonicus) are distributed throughout broadleaved deciduous forests in central Japan. K. Takahashi et al., 2015 PLoS One ...