| The temperate regions of the Southern Hemisphere do not have direct counterparts of the northern Temperate Broadleaf Deciduous Forest. Instead the humid subtropical climate regions have a mixed (broadleaf and needleleaf) evergreen forest whose biogeographic interest stems from the occurrence of Gondwanan relicts: Araucaria pines (South America and Australia), Podocarpus pines (South America, Africa, and Australia), and the evergreen southern beech Nothofagus (South America and Australia and New Zealand). The two tall trees to the right in the picture above are Parana pines (Araucaria braziliensis); the tree on the left is a podocarp. (photographed near Curitiba, Brazil) |
