GLADE (GEOGRAPHY)

A 'glade' is an open area within a woodland.
Glades are a lot like prairies, but offer little or no soil for trees to grow on.
They only allow room for cedar trees, small shrub-like plants, grass and moss, for example the slow growing reindeer lichen.
Conditions in glades may be desert-like because the ground is not protected from the sun by trees or other large plants, causing the temperature in a glade to be as much as 20 degrees higher than regular forest temperature.
Sometimes the word is used in a looser sense, as in the treeless wetlands of the Everglades.

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★ Gap (ecology)