■ TROPICAL WET EVERGREEN FORESTS.
#Naturalvegetation
□ CLIMATIC CONDITIONS.
◇ Annual rainfall exceeds 250 cm.
◇The annual temperature is about 25-27 °C.
◇ Dry season is distinctly short.
□ CHARACTERSTICS.
◇ Evergreen: Due to high heat and high humidity, the trees of these forests do not shed their leaves.
◇ Mesophytic: Plants adapted to neither too dry nor too wet type climate or soil.
◇ Hydrophytic plants: plants like water lily or pondweed that grow in saturated soil.
◇ Xerophytic plants: plants like cactus that grow in extremely dry soil.
◇ 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.
#Naturalvegetation
□ CLIMATIC CONDITIONS.
◇ Annual rainfall exceeds 250 cm.
◇The annual temperature is about 25-27 °C.
◇ Dry season is distinctly short.
□ CHARACTERSTICS.
◇ Evergreen: Due to high heat and high humidity, the trees of these forests do not shed their leaves.
◇ Mesophytic: Plants adapted to neither too dry nor too wet type climate or soil.
◇ Hydrophytic plants: plants like water lily or pondweed that grow in saturated soil.
◇ Xerophytic plants: plants like cactus that grow in extremely dry soil.
◇ 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.