Climate and Regional Composition of Deciduous Forest in Eastern North America and Comparisons with Some Asian Forests

Wetland vegetation from the Miocene deposits of the Bełchatów Lignite Mine (central Poland)

“…The palaeovegetation of leaf assemblage KRAM-P 225 could correspond to the extant biome of temperate deciduous (summergreen) forests (Box and Fujiwara, 2013). Recent equivalents of the fossil taxa from Bełchatów might be found in warm temperate deciduous forests of eastern North America (eastern deciduous forests, southern mixed hardwood forests), East Asia (central Japan, eastern central China -temperate deciduous forests, Mixed Mesophytic Forests) and the Euxine-Hyrcanian region (deciduous Colchis and Hyrcanian forests) (Greller, 2013;Box and Fujiwara, 2015). The climate of these areas corresponds to the Cfa type (warm temperate, fully humid, and with a hot summer) in the Köppen-Geiger climate classification (Kottek et al, 2006).…”