Temperate Rainforest

The temperate rainforest is a biome of cool but rainy weather which promotes the growth of enormous trees.

Additional Resources

• Scientists looked beneath one of oldest trees on Earth. What they found is astounding (10Mar2026 Discover Wildlife)

└Large-diameter trees disproportionately contribute to soil fungal diversity in a coniferous forest with one of oldest living trees on Earth (Troung et al., 2026)

• Planting big native trees early can simplify forest restoration in Aotearoa (AUT Univ. 3Mar2026)

└Differential seedling survival of early-planted, late-successional trees: Results from three forest restoration experiments (Bürli et al., 2026)

• How an underground fungal map of the world's oldest, slowest-growing rainforest trees can boost Earth's resilience (Soc. for the Protection of Underground Networks 3Mar2026)

└Large-diameter trees disproportionately contribute to soil fungal diversity in a coniferous forest with one of oldest living trees on Earth (Truong et al, 2026)

• Modeling finds old-growth wildfire risk highest where low-severity fires once burned (Oregon State Univ 3Feb2026)

└Exposure and carbon risk for mature and old-growth forests from severe wildfire in the Pacific Northwest, U.S.A. (Aparício et al, 2026)

• How to create a thriving forest, not box-checking 'tree cover' (Phys.org 27 May 2025)

└Murphy et al. (2025) Native woodland establishment improves soil hydrological functioning in UK upland pastoral catchments

• Report calls for protection and restoration to help temperate rainforests thrive (The State of the South West Rainforests, 2025)

• Redwoods stand strong amid wildfires—but management matters (Phys.org 11Nov2025)

└Tree and stand characteristics moderate wildfire severity and promote resilience in secondary coast redwood forests (Kane et al., 2025)

• Saving the giants of the Australian forest (Phys.org 21Aug2025)

└Trouvé et al. (2025) Global warming reduces the carrying capacity of the tallest angiosperm species (Eucalyptus regnans)

• Native forests sink more carbon than expected, inverse modeling reveals (Phys.org 17Jun2025)                                                                                                                                                                                       

└Bukosa et al. (2025) Inverse modelling of New Zealand's carbon dioxide balance estimates a larger than expected carbon sink