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TROPICAL WET EVERGREEN FORESTS.
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□ CLIMATIC CONDITIONS.
◇ Annual rainfall exceeds
250 cm.
◇The annual temperature is about
25-27 °C.
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Dry season is distinctly short.
□ CHARACTERSTICS.◇
Evergreen: Due to high heat and high humidity, the trees of these forests do not shed their leaves.
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Mesophytic: Plants adapted to neither too dry nor too wet type climate or soil.
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Hydrophytic plants: plants like water lily or pondweed that grow in saturated soil.
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Xerophytic plants: plants like cactus that grow in extremely dry soil.
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Mesophytic plants: ordinary plants that exist between the two extremes.
◇ The trees often reach
45-60 metres in height.◇ From air, the forest appears like a
thick canopy of foliage.◇
Less undergrowth: The sunlight cannot reach the ground due to thick canopy.
□ DISTRIBUTION◇
Western Ghats (500 to 1370 metres above sea level).
◇ Some regions in the
Purvanchal hills.◇ In the
Andaman and Nicobar Islands. ︎
SOURCE -
D.R. KHULLAR. Chapter 7.
