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East Deccan dry-evergreen forests

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Tropical & Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests

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Reino biogeográfico

Indomalayan

Vista aérea de los humedales costeros de Point Calimere y el paisaje circundante.

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East Deccan dry-evergreen forests

Los bosques secos perennifolios del este del Decán se extienden por la costa de Coromandel, en el sureste de la India, entre los Ghats orientales y la bahía de Bengala, abarcando el este de Tamil Nadu, el territorio de Puducherry y el sureste de Andhra Pradesh, desde el distrito de Ramanathapuram hasta el de Nellore. El rasgo que los define los distingue de los demás bosques secos del Decán: los árboles conservan las hojas durante la larga estación seca, apoyándose en raíces y tallos que almacenan agua y perdiendo poca humedad gracias a sus hojas gruesas y cerosas, bajo un dosel bajo y cerrado que rara vez supera los 10 metros. Entre los árboles perennifolios característicos figuran Manilkara hexandra, Mimusops elengi, el ébano de Ceilán (Diospyros ebenum), el árbol de la estricnina (Strychnos nux-vomica), Drypetes sepiaria y Flacourtia indica. El clima es cálido y estacionalmente seco, con la mayor parte de la lluvia concentrada durante el breve monzón del noreste, de octubre a diciembre, y una estación seca prolongada y muy cálida. Es una de las ecorregiones más mermadas de la zona, ya que se ha talado cerca del 95 por ciento del bosque original y las mejores masas supervivientes persisten sobre todo en bosquecillos sagrados protegidos por la tradición religiosa local, donde la gacela india (chinkara) es la especie emblemática.

RESOLVE 293

Indomalayan

9,858 sq mi

Tropical & Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests

Tipo de paisaje

Tropical & Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests

Región vegetal

Indomalayan

Huella de la región

9,858 sq mi

Presión sobre el hábitat

Nature Imperiled (Dinerstein NNH 4)

Origen y cuidado

Patrocinado

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Central Indochina dry forests

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Chhota-Nagpur dry deciduous forests

The Chhota-Nagpur dry deciduous forests blanket the Chhota-Nagpur Plateau of eastern India, covering most of Jharkhand and reaching into Odisha, West Bengal, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh, and Madhya Pradesh. Because the plateau catches less rain than surrounding lowlands, its dry deciduous woodland is dominated by sal (Shorea robusta) alongside Anogeissus, Terminalia, Lagerstroemia, mahua (Madhuca longifolia), teak (Tectona grandis), and flame of the forest (Butea monosperma), over an understory of shrubs and grasses. The climate is strongly monsoonal, with most of the roughly 1,400 mm of annual rainfall falling between June and September; winters are cool with the occasional sub-freezing night, while summer days turn warm to hot. The region remains an important refuge for tiger and Asian elephant and harbors the sloth bear as a flagship species, with protected blocks such as the Palamau Tiger Reserve.

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Irrawaddy dry forests

The Irrawaddy dry forests occupy the arid heart of central Myanmar, spanning portions of the Irrawaddy, Sittaung, and Salween river basins across several administrative divisions. This is a patchwork of dipterocarp woodland and thorny scrub, characterized by drought-tolerant trees such as Dipterocarpus tuberculatus, Shorea, the native teak Tectona hamiltoniana, Terminalia oliveri, and Senegalia (Acacia) catechu, with tall bamboos like Dendrocalamus strictus widespread. The climate is harsh and dry, receiving well under 800 mm of annual rainfall that arrives sporadically and torrentially from mid-July through October, with rarely more than about fifteen rain-days a year. Despite this severity the region harbors notable endemics, including the critically endangered Popa langur and near-endemic birds such as the white-throated babbler and hooded racket-tailed treepie, while serving as a key refuge for the rare Burmese starred tortoise; less than one percent of the ecoregion lies within protected areas, making it one of the more imperiled dry forests of the realm. Gardeners in hot, low-rainfall climates may recognize several genera native here, including teak (Tectona) and Bauhinia, valued ornamentally elsewhere.

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Khathiar-Gir dry deciduous forests

The Khathiar-Gir dry deciduous forests cover a broad, mostly arid swath of northwestern India, stretching across the states of Gujarat, Rajasthan, and Madhya Pradesh and taking in the Aravalli Range (crowned by Mount Abu), the Kathiawar Peninsula, and the Gir Hills. The vegetation is dry deciduous woodland: teak (Tectona grandis) along with bael (Aegle marmelos), silk-cotton, Boswellia, and Diospyros in the less arid zones, giving way to hardy Anogeissus pendula and khair (Acacia catechu) on drier, rocky ground. The climate is hot and arid, with most of the 550 to 700 mm of annual rain falling during the June-to-September southwest monsoon, summer temperatures soaring above 45 degrees Celsius and winter nights dropping near freezing. This is the only ecoregion in Asia that still shelters wild lions, the endangered Asiatic lion of Gir, and it also supports around 80 mammal species and over 300 birds. Much of the original forest has been fragmented, and the WWF classifies the ecoregion as critical or endangered with only a small fraction protected. For gardeners in similarly hot, seasonally dry climates, native trees such as bael (Aegle marmelos) point toward drought-tolerant, monsoon-adapted plantings.

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Narmada Valley dry deciduous forests

The Narmada Valley dry deciduous forests stretch across central India, concentrated in Madhya Pradesh but reaching into Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Karnataka, and Uttar Pradesh along the Narmada River valley and the adjacent Vindhya and Satpura uplands. This is classic tropical dry broadleaf woodland: a teak-dominated canopy (Tectona grandis) mingled with genera such as Diospyros (Indian ebony), Lagerstroemia, Terminalia, Anogeissus, and Hardwickia, while Terminalia arjuna, Syzygium, and willows line the watercourses. The climate is strongly seasonal, with a seven- to eight-month dry spell broken by the southwest monsoon from June to September that delivers roughly 1,200 to 1,500 mm of rain, prompting trees to shed their leaves to conserve moisture. The region shelters tiger, gaur, sloth bear, blackbuck, and its flagship the Indian wolf, alongside birds like the threatened lesser florican and Indian bustard, though much of the forest is now reduced and dam-fragmented. For gardeners, several of its natives, including Lagerstroemia and Terminalia, are familiar ornamental and shade genera in warm, monsoon-climate plantings.

Tropical & Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests

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Region packet

East Deccan dry-evergreen forests educator packet

Los bosques secos perennifolios del este del Decán se extienden por la costa de Coromandel, en el sureste de la India, entre los Ghats orientales y la bahía de Bengala, abarcando el este de Tamil Nadu, el territorio de Puducherry y el sureste de Andhra Pradesh, desde el distrito de Ramanathapuram hasta el de Nellore. El rasgo que los define los distingue de los demás bosques secos del Decán: los árboles conservan las hojas durante la larga estación seca, apoyándose en raíces y tallos que almacenan agua y perdiendo poca humedad gracias a sus hojas gruesas y cerosas, bajo un dosel bajo y cerrado que rara vez supera los 10 metros. Entre los árboles perennifolios característicos figuran Manilkara hexandra, Mimusops elengi, el ébano de Ceilán (Diospyros ebenum), el árbol de la estricnina (Strychnos nux-vomica), Drypetes sepiaria y Flacourtia indica. El clima es cálido y estacionalmente seco, con la mayor parte de la lluvia concentrada durante el breve monzón del noreste, de octubre a diciembre, y una estación seca prolongada y muy cálida. Es una de las ecorregiones más mermadas de la zona, ya que se ha talado cerca del 95 por ciento del bosque original y las mejores masas supervivientes persisten sobre todo en bosquecillos sagrados protegidos por la tradición religiosa local, donde la gacela india (chinkara) es la especie emblemática.

Realm

Indomalayan

Dominant biome

Tropical & Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests

Approximate area

9,858 square miles

States / provinces

Not recorded

Climate descriptor

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- How do native-plant and wildlife-support claims differ from a species-presence claim?

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