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Trinidad and Tobago dry forest on Chacachacare showing the dry-season deciduous nature of the vegetation. Dry forests tend to exist in the drier areas north and south of the tropical rainforest belt, south or north of the subtropical deserts, generally in two bands: one between 10° and 20°N latitude and the other between 10° and 20°S latitude.
The Chiquitano dry forests cover an area of 230,600 square kilometers (89,000 sq mi). The ecoregion lies east of the Andes in the lowlands of eastern Bolivia and the Brazilian states of Mato Grosso and Rondônia. The World Wildlife Fund includes the Chiquitano dry forests in the Amazon biome. [3]
The Atlantic dry forests are dense, with deciduous and semi-deciduous trees reaching up to 25 to 30 meters in height. The Barriguda Tree, Cavanillesia arborea, is a dry forest tree species distinguished by its huge, bottle-shaped trunk which reaches up to 1.5 meters in diameter.
Sri Lanka dry-zone dry evergreen forests (20 P) Pages in category "Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests" The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total.
Puerto Rican dry forest on Caja de Muertos, south of Ponce. The dry forest life zone exist in two areas on the island of Puerto Rico - along the south coast of the island (in the dry orographic rain shadow of the Cordillera Central) and in the northeastern corner of the island near Fajardo, where the combination of low elevation and strong winds off the ocean result in a dry environment.
Average annual rainfall is between 1000 and 2000 mm, and is highly seasonal. 5 to 8 months of the year are dry, generally with one longer and one shorter dry period per year. [ 1 ] The Central American mountains generally run from northwest to southeast, and Central America's prevailing winds generally blow from northeast or east to southwest ...
The forests' plant composition changed following the arrival of Polynesians, even excluding the deliberate introduction of non-native species. [5] Fossilized pollen has shown that loulu forests with an understory of Ka palupalu o Kanaloa (Kanaloa kahoolawensis) and ʻaʻaliʻi (Dodonaea viscosa) existed on the islands' leeward lowlands [6] from at least before 1210 B.C. until 1565 A.D ...
The limestone forests are of five types. In Artocarpus-Ficus forests, the tall wild breadfruit Artocarpus mariannensis and the banyan Ficus prolixa are co-dominant. Lower-stature Mammea forests, dominated by Mammea odorata, are found on the eastern escarpment. Cordia forests, dominated by Cordia subcordata, are found on steep slopes and cliffs.