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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.
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.
The principal vegetation in the ecoregion is tropical dry forest. Many trees lose their leaves during the winter dry season. The mature forests have a multi-layered structure, with a middle layer of trees from 15–20 meters high, and an upper layer 20–30 meters high.
Asuncion has a Terminalia forest, unique in the archipelago, whose principal species are endemic. [2] Most of the natural vegetation on the older southern islands has been cleared or altered by humans, but areas of primary and secondary forest remain. The plant communities vary with elevation and soils. [2]
The Tumbes–Piura dry forests ecoregion is in the neotropical realm, in the tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests biome. [1] It is part of the Tumbes–Chocó–Magdalena biodiversity hotspot, one of 25 biogeographic regions globally that have with a significant reservoir of biodiversity under threat from humans. [6]
Tropical dry broadleaf forests are territories with a forest cover that is not very dense and has often an unkempt, irregular appearance, especially in the dry season. [10] This type of forest often includes bamboo and teak as the dominant large tree species, such as in the Phi Pan Nam Range, part of the Central Indochina dry forests. [11] They ...
Prior to human habitation, the natural vegetation likely consisted mostly of deciduous broadleaf forests. Humans have altered the islands' vegetation, and converted the lowland forests to farms, plantations, and tree gardens. The remaining natural vegetation consists of upland forests, upland savanna, freshwater swamps, and mangroves.
The Mato Grosso tropical dry forests ecoregion is a transitional zone between the moist forests of the Amazon basin to the north and the Cerrado of the Brazilian Highlands to the south. The annual floods and periodic fires in the dry season form a complex mosaic of forest, grasslands and transitional vegetation. [ 5 ]