Temperate needleleaf forests mostly occupy the higher latitude regions of the northern hemisphere, as well as high altitude zones and some warm temperate areas, especially on nutrient-poor or otherwise unfavourable soils.

Western Hemlock typically dominate oldgrowth rainforests, but contain sections of Douglas-firs, Redcedar, Alder, and even Redwood forests on their southern extent, near the Oregon and California border, while Sitka spruce increases in frequency with latitude.

Dry forests tend to exist north and south of the equator rain forest belt, south or north of the subtropical deserts, generally in two bands, one between 10 ° and 20 ° N latitude and the other between 20 ° and 30 ° S latitude.

There is a remarkable similarity between the Vosges and the corresponding range of the Black Forest on the other side of the Rhine: both lie within the same degrees of latitude, have similar geological formations and are characterized by forests on their lower slopes, above which are open pastures and rounded summits of a rather uniform altitude ; furthermore, both exhibit steeper slopes towards the Rhine and a more gradual descent on the other side.

During the Paleocene and Eocene, extensive forests of Metasequoia occurred as far north as Strathcona Fiord on Ellesmere Island and sites on Axel Heiberg Island ( northern Canada ) at around 80 ° N latitude .< ref > Metasequoia was likely deciduous by this time.

The tree can form pure forests in Scandinavia, and occurs as far north as latitude 67 ° N at Beiarn in Norway.

In coniferous forests of the eastern Cascade Range of Washington, elevation of Northern Spotted Owl nest sites was negatively associated with latitude ( P < 0. 001 ), and site occupancy and reproductive rates were inversely associated with elevation.

The Valdivian temperate rain forests comprise a relatively narrow coastal strip between the Pacific Ocean to the west, and the southern Andes Mountains to the east, from roughly 37 ° to 48 ° south latitude.

North of roughly 48 ° south latitude lies the Valdivian temperate rain forests ecoregion, which shares many affinities with the Magellanic ecoregion in plant and animal life.

The northern portion is heavily forested, but the south has few forests and is described in ways that would suggest a more equatorial latitude.

The park's forests and animal life, therefore, include species normally found further north, yet the southern climate allows species more typical for the southern latitude to co-exist with the northern species.

The Valdivian temperate rain forests, or Laurisilva Valdiviana, occupies southern Chile and Argentina from the Pacific Ocean to the Andes between 38 ° and 45 ° latitude.

Troms county has surprising greenery for the latitude, and the inner waterways and fjords are lined with birch forests, and further inland there are extensive pine forests and highlands around the rivers Målselva and Reisa.

Even at this latitude, pine forests grow naturally in lowland areas inland.

Because of the density of the redwood forests and because Gregg stopped frequently to measure latitude and the size of the trees the expedition averaged only two miles a day.

Another study suggested that " high latitude forests probably have a net warming effect on the Earth's climate ", because their absorption of sunlight creates a warming effect that balances out their absorption of carbon dioxide.

It has only one species, Austrocedrus chilensis, native to the Valdivian temperate rain forests and the adjacent drier steppe-forests of central-southern Chile and western Argentina from 33 ° S to 44 ° S latitude.

Nothofagus pumilio ( Lenga Beech or Lenga ) is a deciduous tree or shrub in the Nothofagaceae family that is native to the southern Andes range, in the temperate forests of Chile and Argentina to Tierra del Fuego, from 35 ° to 56 ° South latitude.

The steppe extends roughly from the Dniepr to the Ural River | Ural or 30th meridian east | 30 ° to 55th meridian east | 55 ° east longitude, and from the Black Sea and the Caucasus in the south to the Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests | temperate forest and taiga in the north, or 45th parallel north | 45 ° to 55th parallel north | 55 ° north latitude.

A few Southern Interior valleys have short cold winters with infrequent heavy snow, while those in the Cariboo, the southern part of the Central Interior, are colder because of their altitude and latitude, but without the intensity or duration experienced at similar latitudes elsewhere in Canada.

* Note: technically Chad does not have an easternmost point, the northern section of the border being formed by the 24 ° of latitude

The Degree Confluence Project is a World Wide Web-based all-volunteer project which aims to have people visit each of the integer degree intersections of latitude and longitude on Earth, posting photographs and a narrative of each visit online.

According to Farkas the mouthpiece should have 2 / 3 upper lip and 1 / 3 lower lip ( French horn ), 2 / 3 lower lip and 1 / 3 upper lip ( trumpet and cornet ), and more latitude for lower brass ( trombone, baritone, and tuba ).

Although other countries have points extending north, virtually all of Finland is north of 60 degrees north latitude ; nearly a quarter of the land area and fully one-third of the latitudinal extent of the country lie north of the Arctic Circle.

The Hebrides have a cool temperate climate that is remarkably mild and steady for such a northerly latitude, due to the influence of the Gulf Stream.

The islands are volcanic in origin, and are usually attributed to the passing by of the Nazca Plate over the Juan Fernández hotspot which would have produced the Juan Fernández Ridge that extends into the Peru-Chile Trench at the latitude of Valparaíso Region in mainland South America.

This was the approximate latitude that the Vikings would have sailed along to get to Greenland from Scandinavia.

Despite the wide regional variations in climate by latitude and other geographic factors, the long-term average global climate is quite stable during interglacial periods, and variations of a degree or two of average global temperature have historically had major effects on the ecological balance, and on the actual geography of the Earth.

A rod further north would have a north-south shadow, and as an elevation of 90 ° would be a zero latitude, the complement of the elevation gives the latitude.

As the parallel through the river-mouth also crossed the coast of " Celtica ", the distance due north from Marseilles to Celtica was 3700 stadia, a baseline from which Pytheas seems to have calculated latitude and distance.

There is some disagreement about this, and several other authors have noted that there are fossil penguin species that contradict this hypothesis and that ocean currents and upwellings are likely to have had a greater effect on species diversity than latitude alone.

This could feasibly produce the same distribution of glacial deposits without requiring any of them to have been deposited at equatorial latitude.

However, the Supreme Court has ruled that Congress does have latitude to delegate regulatory powers to executive agencies as long as it provides an " intelligible principle " which governs the agency's exercise of the delegated regulatory authority.

Cultural influences such as Christmas creep may have led to the winter season being perceived as beginning earlier in recent years, although high latitude countries like Canada are usually well into their real winters before the December solstice.

These areas would have been strictly " free territory " by the Missouri Compromise, which allowed slavery in the State of Missouri but disallowed it everywhere north of the latitude 36 degrees, 30 minutes, which forms most of the southern boundary of Missouri.

Owing to the latitude near the Tropic of Cancer, the permanent snow line is among the highest in the world at typically around-for comparison, equatorial mountains in New Guinea and the Rwenzoris have a snow line some lower.

In response, the government argued that Congress does indeed have the latitude to retroactively extend terms, so long as the individual extensions are also for " limited times ," as required by the Constitution.

There is no probability, that any other detached body of land, of nearly equal extent, will ever be found in a more southern latitude ; the name Terra Australis will, therefore, remain descriptive of the geographical importance of this country, and of its situation on the globe: it has antiquity to recommend it ; and, having no reference to either of the two claiming nations, appears to be less objectionable than any other which could have been selected.

Such a level of involvement is not common once the director and cinematographer have become comfortable with each other, the director will typically convey to the cinematographer what is wanted from a scene visually, and allow the cinematographer latitude in achieving that effect.

The northernmost sightings of narwhal have occurred north of Franz Joseph Land, at about 85 ° North latitude.

Areas in Norway located north of the Arctic Circle will have midnight sun and corresponding winter darkness, the length of both depends on the latitude.