Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of evergreen or deciduous trees or shrubs belonging to the family Fagaceæ, and closely related to Fagus, to which it was formerly referred by many authors.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun A genus of beeches of temperate southern hemisphere except Africa; the southern beech.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun beeches of temperate southern hemisphere except Africa: southern beech
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Examples
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Northern Patagonian forests with a predominance of evergreen species such as Nothofagus dombeyi, Podocarpus nubigena, and Drimys winteri.
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At higher elevations, the typical Mediterranean sclerophyllous vegetation grades up to Nothofagus forest.
Biological diversity in the Chilean winter rainfall-valdivian forests 2009
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The principal species in the forests include southern beech Nothofagus antarctica, N. pumilio (the most abundant), N. betuloides (at its southernmost limit), and N. dombeyi (which replaces N. betuloides from 48°S); other typical species are Fuchsia magellanica, Winter's bark Drimys winteri, Ribes magellanicus, Berberis buxifolia, Pernettya mucronata, Philesia buxifolia, and Guaytecas Islands cypress Pilgerodendron uviferum (R).
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The ruil forest of coastal central Chile is an important refuge for the endemic trees Gomortega keule and Nothofagus alessandri.
Biological diversity in the Chilean winter rainfall-valdivian forests 2009
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Other forests on North Island are dominated by angiosperms, while those in the southern portion of the island and on South Island are dominated by Gondwanan gymnosperms of the family Podocarpaceae and southern beeches (Nothofagus spp.).
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At higher altitudes, beech forest occurs with red beech Nothofagus fusca, silver beech N. menziesii and mountain beech N. solandri var cliffortioides in pure stands totalling over 5,000 ha, or with L. bidwillii from 750 m to 1,530 m and covering 12,730 ha.
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In contrast beech species (Nothofagus spp.) are conspicuously absent between 42°E 50'S and 43°E 40'S.
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Nothofagus and Araucaria may grow in pure, dense stands.
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The Fagaceae species that generally mark montane rain forest in the region (Castanopsis, Nothofagus, and Lithocarpus) are absent in the Solomons.
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Research has also been undertaken on climate, fauna, ecology, landscape development and the role of pathogenic fungi in the dieback of beech Nothofagus spp.
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