In the temperate zone, evergreen plant functional types increase their fractions at the expense of deciduous vegetation in several regions, for example in the southeastern US, in Europe and in parts of eastern China.
In the Wet Zone, tropical wet evergreen forest dominates in the lowlands, and submontane and montane evergreen forests prevail in the highlands.
Only the Sinharaja forest and the Peak Wilderness of the southwestern interior remain as significant remnants of the Wet Zone's original evergreen forests.
Similarly, they give higher estimate for the vegetation zone of needle-leaf evergreen forests (36).
Broad-leaved evergreens originally occupied the high-rainfall zone in the Andean piedmont.
But all coniferous forests, and the evergreen broadleaf trees of hot, dry zones, frequently develop conditions ideally suited to the spread of fire through standing trees.
Its rugged topography is characterized by hundreds of steep mountains, which in turn provide diverse habitats along distinct vegetation zones, including tropical, coastal evergreen forests, subalpine shrubs and alpine tundra along the Central Mountain Range [ 18].
The tropical and warm-temperate species are evergreen; those from the colder North Temperate Zone are deciduous.
Straddling the continental divide, the Monteverde area is a conservation zone preserving cloud forests where evergreen vines and lichens cling to every available surface, and jewel-coloured quetzals and hummingbirds flit between the trees.
There are densely forested regions around Gangtok, consisting of temperate, deciduous forests of poplar, birch, oak, and elm, as well as evergreen, coniferous trees of the wet alpine zone.
