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SUB TROPICAL BROAD LEAF HILL FORESTS.
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Naturalvegetation□ CLIMATIC CONDITIONS.
◇ Mean annual rainfall is
75 cm to 125 cm.◇ Average annual temperature is
18-21 °C.
□ DISTRIBUTION.
◇ Eastern Himalayas to the east of
88°E longitude at altitudes varying from 1000 to 2000 m. □ CHARACTERSTICS◇ Forests of
evergreen species. ◇ Commonly found species are
evergreen oaks, chestnuts, ash, beech, sals and pines.◇
Climbers and
epiphytes (a plant that grows non-parasitically on a tree or other plant) are common.
◇ These forests are not so distinct in the southern parts of the country. They occur only in the
Nilgiri and Palni hills at 1070-1525 metres above sea level.
◇ It is a "
stunted rain-forest" and is not so luxuriant as the true tropical evergreen.
◇ The higher parts of the Western Ghats such as
Mahabaleshwar, the summits of the Satpura and the Maikal Range, highlands of Bastar and Mt. Abu in the Aravalli Range carry sub-types of these forests.
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SOURCE - D.R.KHULLAR. [ CHAPTER 7]
