Woodland

A woodland (/ˈwʊdlənd/ ⓘ) is, in the broad sense, land covered with woody plants (trees and shrubs),[1][2] or in a narrow sense, synonymous with wood (or in the U.S., the plurale tantum woods), a low-density forest forming open habitats with plenty of sunlight and limited shade (see differences between British, American and Australian English explained below).

Woodland may form a transition to shrubland under drier conditions or during early stages of primary or secondary succession.

While woodlots often technically have closed canopies, they are so small that light penetration from the edge makes them ecologically closer to woodland than forest.

North American forests vary widely in their ecology and are greatly dependent on abiotic factors such as climate and elevation.

Much of the old-growth deciduous and pine-dominated forests of the eastern United States was harvested for lumber, paper pulp, telephone poles, creosote, pitch, and tar.

An open woodland in North Lanarkshire , Scotland
Miombo woodland in Malawi
A dry sclerophyll woodland in western Sydney.
An open woodland in Northern Illinois supporting an herbaceous understory of forbs and grasses
Limber Pine woodland in the Toiyabe Range of central Nevada
Mallee woodland with eucalyptuses and melaleucas in Esperance, Western Australia
A cedar woodland in Bsharri , Lebanon
Sahel woodland in Mali