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Summary
forest is an ecosystem type[1]. forest draws 12,397 Wikipedia views per month (ecosystem type category, ranking #3 of 8).[2]
Key Facts
- Instance of: vegetational formation[3], concept[4], type of region[5]
- Subclass of: biome[6], biocoenosis[7], natural geographic entity[8], geographical feature[9], ecosystem[10], habitat[11], resource[12]
- Part of: natural environment[13], biosphere[14], biome[15]
- Commons category: Forests[16]
- Has part(s): stand[17], forest station[18], vegetation[19], high forest[20], selection cutting[21], Coppice[22], Taillis sous futaie[23], coppicing[24], oak forest[25], beech forest[26], mixed forest[27], spruce-fir forests[28], Laurel forest[29], tropical forest[30]
- Topic's main category: Category:Forests[31], Category:Forest[32]
- Commons gallery: Forest[33]
- OpenStreetMap tag: natural=wood[34], landuse=forest[35]
- Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[36], Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus[37], Green Map Icons[38], Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[39], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[40], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[41], Dictionnaire des biens communs[42], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[43], The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge[44], New International Encyclopedia[45], The New Student's Reference Work[46], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[47], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 1[48], Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron[49]
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Influence
Things named for forest include Leshy[50], a fictional creature[51]; Lake of the Woods[52], a lake[53], in Canada[54]; silvopasture[55]; forest kindergarten[56], a teaching method[57]; forest schooling[58], a teaching method[59], in Indonesia[60]; Forest County[61], a county of Pennsylvania[62], in United States[63], founded in 1857[64], headquartered in Tionesta[65]; International Day of Forests[66], a world day[67], founded in 2013[68]; and Laforet[69], a shopping center[70], in Japan[71], founded in 1978[72].
Why It Matters
forest has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[73] forest is known by 58 alternative names across languages and contexts.[74]
Entities named for forest include Leshy[50], a fictional creature[51]; Lake of the Woods[52], a lake[53], in Canada[54]; silvopasture[55]; forest kindergarten[56], a teaching method[57]; forest schooling[58], a teaching method[59], in Indonesia[60]; and Forest County[61], a county of Pennsylvania[62], in United States[63], founded in 1857[64], headquartered in Tionesta[65].