Rename forests

[Drakill Tannan]

Just a quick idea i got. Ymph is a tropical archipielado, and i have always assumed the woods and forests where actually jungles. So i can't help to think, wouldn't it help to have such areas renamed to "Webbed jungle", etc. in order to give it a bit more of "Jungle" feeling?

Just a random thought.

[Spiffy Has]

Webbed Woods has the feel of alliteration to it. Webbed Jungle just feels corny. :(

[Howlando]

Sub-tropical! Warm but temperate.

[xXCrystal_Rose]

There are forests in the tropics too anyways. No jungle on my island, but there is an amazing rainforest!

[Porkolt]

So explain the difference between a jungle and a forest.

[Drakill Tannan]

erm.. none. I just had the idea. It was just a random thought

[Ebok]

So explain the difference between a jungle and a forest.

For you who don't care:
The Red keeps it simple!

The patterns of weather along the earth's surface create different living conditions, and these conditions change the type of vegetation, soils, and animals found there. So Jungle, from the alliteration of the Sanskrit "jangala", has been attributed to basically tangled thickets. Or otherwise any Tropical Forests.

Jungles tend to refer to this:
Tropical Rain Forests, no seasons, always raining, very tall trees with lots of ferns, vines, and a large variety of animals.

Tropic rain forests are layered forest, little ground cover, heavy in mosses and ferns that catch water falling / dripping from above. The forest floor is always completely shadowed. The forest itself is split into I think four or five different elevations that have very different types of plants and animals growing / living around these trees. The weather here is fairly consistent, with little wind, so these plants never drop their leaves or go dormant. Tropical rain-forests contain the highest diversities of insects, birds, and some mammals (like primates and bats) in the entire world.

Forests tend to refer to this:
Typical Higher Northern or Lower Southern Hemisphere: Temperate or Boreal forests. Leaves change color and fall, large seasonal changes, cold weather happens.

Colder climate, either temperate or boreal. The trees here tend to be shorter and due to the greater temperature and precipitation change during seasons. Therefore, the deciduous trees loose their leaves during the falls and go into hibernation and these trees become more commonly coniferous (evergreen) as you move north.

Simple Answer:
Jungles are slang for certain dark scary and less inhabited tropical forests. Forest is the term used to describe every type of Tree-land. Tropical Rainforests, Seasonal Monsoon Forest. Temperate Forest. Boreal Forest. etc.

[Porkolt]

Yes, I didn't think they were actually two different things.

Nifty post, Ebok.