Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Built Environment (hierarchy name)
4. Settlements and Landscapes (hierarchy name)
5. landscapes (environments)
6. natural landscapes
7. vegetation
8. plant communities (natural)

Narrower term/s

• jungles
• rainforests[+]
  • evergreen rainforests [NP]
  • seasonal rainforests [NP]
  • temperate coniferous forests [NP]
  • temperate broad-leaved rainforests [NP]
• woods (plant communities)[+]
  • groves (plant communities) [+]
    • sacred groves [NP]
• woodlands (plant communities)
• [forests by biome][+]
  • boreal forests
  • tropical forests [+]
    • jungles [NP]
    • evergreen rainforests
    • seasonal rainforests
    • semi-evergreen forests
    • moist/dry deciduous forests
  • temperate forests [+]
    • moist conifer and evergreen broad-leaved forests
    • dry conifer forests
    • mediterranean forests
    • temperate coniferous forests
    • temperate broad-leaved rainforests
    • temperate deciduous forests

Anotations

Scope note:

Plant communities that are dominated by trees and other woody vegetation. A typical forest is composed of the overstory and the understory; the understory may be subdivided into the lower tree layer, shrub layer, herb layer, moss layer, and soil microbes. Today forests occupy approximately one-third of the earth's land area. For forests in the sense of cultural landscape rather than as a plant community, use "forests (cultural landscapes)."