Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests

[1] These forests are richest and most distinctive in central China and eastern North America, with some other globally distinctive ecoregions in the Himalayas, Western and Central Europe, the southern coast of the Black Sea, Australasia, Southwestern South America and the Russian Far East.

[1] In the Northern hemisphere, characteristic dominant broadleaf trees in this biome include oaks (Quercus spp.

A dry season occurs in the winter in East Asia and in summer on the wet fringe of the Mediterranean climate zones.

Temperatures are typically moderate except in parts of Asia such as Ussuriland, or the Upper Midwest, where temperate forests can occur despite very harsh conditions with very cold winters.

In the Köppen climate classification they are represented respectively by Cfa, Dfa/Dfb southern range and Cfb,[4][5] and more rarely, Csb, BSk and Csa.