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The ecoregion forms an area of temperate broadleaf forest covering 55,900 square kilometres (21,600 sq mi) in a narrow band between 1,500 to 2,600 metres (4,900 to 8,500 ft) elevation, extending from the Gandaki River gorge in Nepal, through Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir in northern India into parts of northern Pakistan.
The Eastern Himalayan broadleaf forests is a temperate broadleaf forest ecoregion found in the middle elevations of the eastern Himalayas, including parts of Nepal, India, Bhutan, Myanmar and China. These forests have an outstanding richness of wildlife.
1.4 Temperate coniferous forests. ... Himalayan subtropical broadleaf forests; Lower Gangetic Plains moist deciduous forests;
The Himalayan subtropical pine forests occupy the western end of the subtropical belt, with forests dominated by Chir Pine (Pinus roxburghii). [8] The central part of the range is home to the Himalayan subtropical broadleaf forests, an ecoregion that has many different kinds of forest. One kind of forest is dominated by the sal tree (Shorea ...
It is a valuable ecosystem as many Himalayan birds and animals migrate seasonally up and down the mountains spending part of the year in the conifer forests, so conservation is a high priority. [ 2 ] This ecoregion is drier than the Eastern Himalayan subalpine conifer forests , which receive more moisture from the Bay of Bengal monsoon.
The main forest types include Dodonaea scrub, subtropical dry evergreen forests of Olea europaea subsp. cuspidata, northern dry mixed deciduous forests, dry Siwalik sal (Shorea robusta) forests, moist mixed deciduous forests, subtropical broadleaf wet hill forests, northern tropical semi-evergreen forests, and northern tropical wet evergreen ...
The Eastern Himalayan subalpine conifer forests is a temperate coniferous forests ecoregion which is found in the middle and upper elevations of the eastern Middle Himalayas, in western Nepal, Bhutan, northern Indian states including Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim and adjacent Myanmar and China.
Most of the monospecific areas are dry temperate areas, but there are a few recorded monospecific areas that are moist temperate regions. [ 1 ] Deodar forests have been recorded to start growing at an elevation of 5,600 feet (1,700 m) and will stop at about 9,000 feet (2,700 m).