Forests are also home to trees, bamboo forests, mangroves, shrubs and other plants, animals and microorganisms. Forest is a biological community with woody plants as the main body, and it is the sum of ecosystems formed by the interdependence and mutual restriction between concentrated trees and other plants, animals, microorganisms and soil, as well as the interaction with the environment.

Morozov, a Russian forester, proposed in 1903 that forest is a synthesis of trees, accompanying plants, animals and their environment. Forest botany, botany and vegetation science call it forest plant community, and ecology calls it forest ecosystem. In forestry construction, forest is a kind of protected, developed and renewable natural resource, which has three major benefits: economy, ecology and society.

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Forest type

1. Shelterbelt: Forests, trees and shrubs with the main purpose of protection, including water conservation forests, soil and water conservation forests, windbreak and sand fixation forests, farmland and pasture protection forests, bank protection forests and road protection forests.

2. Timber forests: forests and trees with the main purpose of producing wood, including bamboo forests with the main purpose of producing bamboo.

3. Economic forests: trees whose main purpose is to produce fruits, edible oils, beverages, condiments, industrial raw materials and medicinal materials.

4. Fuelwood forest: a forest whose main purpose is to produce fuel.

5. Special-purpose forests: forests and trees whose main purposes are national defense, environmental protection and scientific experiments, including national defense forests, experimental forests and parent forests.

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