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Sri Lanka map of climate classification zones. Sri Lanka is in the north-equatorial tropical zone. Therefore it experiences a climate with high rainfall and temperature which permits the county to be broadly classified into groups as follows. Terrestrial ecosystems Forests – Lowland rain forests, dry monsoon forests, montane forests, thorn scrubs
The ecoregion covers an area of 48,400 square kilometers (18,700 sq mi), about 75%, of the island of Sri Lanka, with the exception of the islands' southwestern corner and Central Highlands, home to the Sri Lanka lowland rain forests and Sri Lanka montane rain forests ecoregions, respectively, and the northern Jaffna Peninsula, which is part of the Deccan thorn scrub forests ecoregion.
Sclerophyllous plants are found in tropical heath forests, which grown on nutrient-poor sandy soils in humid regions in the Orinoco and the Rio Negro basins of northern South America on quartz sand, in the kerangas forests of Borneo and on the Malay Peninsula, in coastal sandy areas along the Gulf of Guinea in Gabon, Cameroon, and Côte d ...
Sinharaja Forest Reserve is a forest reserve and a biodiversity hotspot in Sri Lanka. It is of international significance and has been designated a Biosphere Reserve and World Heritage Site by UNESCO. [1] According to International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Sinharaja is the country's last viable area of primary tropical rainforest.
The Sri Lanka montane rain forests is an ecoregion found above 1,000 m in the central highlands of Sri Lanka. Owing to their rich biodiversity , this region is considered to be a super-hotspot within endemic hotspots of global importance. [ 2 ]
9.0% (167,000 hectares [13]) of Sri Lanka's forests are classified as primary forest (the most biodiverse and carbon-dense form of forest). Sri Lanka's forests contain 61 million metric tons of carbon in living forest biomass (in 2010 [14]). The southwest portion of the island, where the influence of the moisture-bearing southwest monsoon is ...
Sri Lanka lowland rain forests; Sri Lanka montane rain forests; V. Vanni forest This page was last edited on 1 April 2018, at 23:26 (UTC). Text ...
The Sri Lanka montane rain forests represent the montane and submontane moist forests above 1,000 metres (3,300 ft) in the central highlands and in the Knuckles mountain range. [5] Half of Sri Lanka's endemic flowering plants and 51 percent of the endemic vertebrates are restricted to this ecoregion. This ecoregion is inhabited by five strict ...