Complex sentence: Trees of the laurel family predominate in the world's laurel forests and cloud forest, which occur in tropical, subtropical and mild temperate regions of the northern and southern hemispheres, highlighting the Macaronesian islands, southern Japan, Madagascar, New Caledonia and central Chile.
Split into simpler sentences: Trees of the laurel family predominate in the world's laurel forests and cloud forest, which occur in tropical, subtropical and mild temperate regions of the northern and southern hemispheres. Important examples of such forests occur in the Macaronesian islands, southern Japan, Madagascar, New Caledonia and central Chile.