Temperate forests of the southern hemisp
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Beard, J. S.
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Article
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1990
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Springer-Verlag
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English
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The much higher proportion of sea to land in the southern hemisphere creates conditions favouring temperate rain forest on west-facing coasts, so that forests dominated by Nothofagus spp. and southern conifers in Araucariaceae and Podocarpaceae have survived since Cretaceous times. By contrast only