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TROPICAL MOIST DECIDUOUS#
Naturalvegetation□ CLIMATIC CONDITIONS.
◇ Annual rainfall
100 to 200 cm.◇ Mean annual temperature of
27 °C.◇
Spring and
summer are dry. □ CHARACTERSTICS◇ The trees
drop their leaves during the spring and early summer when sufficient moisture not available.
◇ General appearance is
bare in extreme summers (April-May).
◇ Tropical moist deciduous forests present
irregular top storey (25 to 60 m).
◇
Heavily buttressed trees and fairly complete undergrowth.
◇ These
forests occupy a much larger area, but large tracts under these forests have been cleared for cultivation.
□ DISTRIBUTION◇ The belt running along the
Western Ghats surrounding the belt of evergreen forests.
◇ A strip along the
Shiwalik range including
terai and
bhabar from 77° E to 88° E.◇
Manipur and Mizoram.◇ Hills of
eastern Madhya Pradesh and
Chhattisgarh.
◇
Chota Nagpur Plateau.◇
Most of Odisha.◇ Parts of
West Bengal and
◇
Andaman and
Nicobar Islands. ︎
SOURCE -
D.R. KHULLAR, CHAPTER - 7
