Terai-Duar savanna and grasslands

Terai-Duar savanna and grasslands

Terai-Duar savanna and grasslands
The Terai-Duar savanna and grasslands form a narrow lowland belt at the base of the Himalayas, stretching from northwest India across the inner river valleys of southern Nepal to southwest Bhutan, where it is known variously as the Terai and the Dooars. It is a mosaic of tall riverside grasslands, savannas, and evergreen and deciduous broadleaf forests, and it harbors some of the world's tallest grasslands, with stands more than 7 meters high; characteristic grasses include baruwa (Tripidium bengalense) and kans grass (Saccharum spontaneum), while sal (Shorea robusta) dominates the forest patches. The climate is hot, humid, and wet during the summer monsoon with temperatures reaching 40C, then cooler in winter with morning ground frost, and the annual cycle of monsoon floods deposits the silt that keeps the grasslands renewed. This habitat shelters globally threatened wildlife, including the greater one-horned rhinoceros, Bengal tiger, and Asian elephant, but the grasslands themselves are among the most reduced and threatened in the world, largely lost to agricultural conversion and altered water flows.
RESOLVE 311
Indomalayan
13,350 sq mi
Tropical & Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas & Shrublands
Type de paysage
Tropical & Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas & Shrublands
Région végétale
Indomalayan
Empreinte de la région
13,350 sq mi
Pression sur l'habitat
Nature Imperiled (Dinerstein NNH 4)
Utilisez ceci comme schéma général de plantation pour la région : Warm grasslands and savannas where grasses dominate and trees are scattered, maintained by seasonal rainfall, grazing, and fire. They support large herbivore communities and respond sharply to wet–dry cycles. Pour vos décisions de jardin, associez ce contexte à la liste de plantes ci-dessous, puis affinez selon les contraintes de lumière, d'eau, de sol et de taille adulte de votre site.

Range & origins

Emplacement de Terai-Duar savanna and grasslands sur la carte du monde
Repère placé à l’intérieur du polygone RESOLVE 2017 à 26.7°N, 87.0°E.
La région à travers le temps
Empreinte moderne
RESOLVE 2017 cartographie 13,350 sq mi
Cette limite est une empreinte écologique moderne pour Terai-Duar savanna and grasslands, et non une ligne permanente sur la planète. Elle est utile pour le contexte actuel des plantes et de la faune car elle suit des schémas récurrents de végétation, de climat, de relief et de perturbations.
Pourquoi ici
Conditions de tropical & subtropical grasslands, savannas & shrublands
La région se situe dans le règne Indomalayan et est classée comme tropical & subtropical grasslands, savannas & shrublands. L'altitude, l'humidité, le feu, les sols, les côtes et l'utilisation humaine des terres peuvent tous rendre le paysage réel plus varié qu'une seule couleur de carte ne le laisse penser.
Pression du changement
Nature Imperiled
Plotwright affiche ceci comme l'empreinte RESOLVE actuelle. Au fil des décennies ou des siècles, le réchauffement, les perturbations, les espèces envahissantes, l'utilisation des terres et la restauration peuvent déplacer la bordure vivante d'une région même lorsque la carte de référence reste fixe.

Collections de plantation

Des recettes de plantation finalisées où chaque membre peut supporter la plage climatique de cette région. Le badge d'adaptation se base sur la plante la plus sensible de la collection, si bien qu'une collection résiliente est un point de départ plus sûr que n'importe quelle vedette isolée.
Résiliente au climat · 2 plantes
Bright shade foundation
A part-shade planting with shrub structure and low foliage contrast.
Annabelle hydrangea
Coral bells
+4
Résiliente au climat · 8 plantes
Climate-resilient natives for warming zones (eastern NA)
A pollinator-supporting palette of eastern North American natives with broad hardiness ranges and wide native distributions. Built for gardeners who want a planting that can handle warming zones without giving up wildlife value.
Switchgrass
Little bluestem
Common milkweed
Black-eyed Susan
Wild bergamot
Sweet Joe-Pye weed
Cutleaf coneflower
New England aster
Résiliente au climat · 3 plantes
Kitchen patio planters
A compact edible collection for containers, patios, and near-door harvesting.
Genovese basil
Lacinato kale
Coral bells
+2
Résiliente au climat · 6 plantes
Mediterranean drought-tolerant edible
A low-water edible palette of culinary herbs + a hardy grape for hot dry sunny sites. Mediterranean-origin plants thrive on neglect; their primary failure mode is overwatering, not underwatering.
English lavender
Rosemary
Garden sage
Oregano
Common thyme
Fox grape
+5
Résiliente au climat · 9 plantes
Native pollinator border (eastern US)
A continuous-bloom native pollinator strip for eastern North America. Covers spring through frost with host + nectar plants spanning monarchs, native bees, hummingbirds, and specialist Lepidoptera. Little bluestem provides the matrix grass + Hesperiidae host.
Butterfly weed
Common milkweed
Purple coneflower
Wild bergamot
Scarlet bee balm
Little bluestem
Sweet Joe-Pye weed
Swamp sunflower
Smooth blue aster
Résiliente au climat · 4 plantes
Sunny pollinator border
A durable sunny border with summer bloom, seedheads, and upright winter texture.
English lavender
Purple coneflower
Black-eyed Susan
Switchgrass

Régions de plantation similaires

Parcourez d'autres régions au rythme similaire d'étés chauds et secs. Leurs listes de plantes peuvent suggérer des espèces et des combinaisons à comparer.
RESOLVE 34 - Afrotropic
Angolan mopane woodlands
The Angolan mopane woodlands stretch across southwestern Angola and northern Namibia, running along the Owambo Basin and surrounding the salt flats of the Etosha Pan. As the name suggests, the ecoregion is dominated by the mopane tree (Colophospermum mopane), which grows as a single-stemmed tree up to about 10 meters tall or, where conditions are harsher, as a dense shrub, alongside associated Acacia, Combretum, and Commiphora species. The climate is dry, with rainfall concentrated in the summer and peaking in late summer. The woodlands shelter elephants, black and white rhinoceros, lion, and cheetah, as well as the near-endemic black-faced impala, and the wider region is anchored by protected areas including Namibia's Etosha National Park. Mopane here also has a direct human use, as the caterpillars of the mopane emperor moth are gathered locally as food.
Tropical & Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas & Shrublands
Zones 11a-12b
+4.2°F d’ici 2070
74,248 sq mi
Niveau NNH 2
RESOLVE 35 - Afrotropic
Angolan scarp savanna and woodlands
The Angolan scarp savanna and woodlands form a long, narrow strip along the coast of Angola, running from the Atlantic shore up the steep west-facing escarpment that climbs roughly 1,000 meters to the country's central plateau. Vegetation shifts dramatically with elevation, grading from dry woodland and wooded grassland—where baobab, Strychnos, and Acacia welwitschii grow—up to humid mist and cloud forests whose canopy includes Khaya anthotheca, Bombax buonopozense, and Spathodea campanulata. The climate is tropical with summer rains; the coastal belt, cooled by the Benguela Current, stays humid but receives relatively little rain, while the escarpment is far wetter. Despite being poorly studied and only partly protected within reserves such as Quiçãma National Park, the region is rich in endemics, including the red-crested turaco and the grey-striped francolin, and is classified as Vulnerable. For gardeners, the showy African tulip tree (Spathodea campanulata), grown as an ornamental in warm climates worldwide, is native to these escarpment forests.
Tropical & Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas & Shrublands
Zones 12a-13b
+3.7°F d’ici 2070
52,811 sq mi
Niveau NNH 4
RESOLVE 36 - Afrotropic
Angolan wet miombo woodlands
The Angolan wet miombo woodlands blanket most of the central Angolan plateau and extend north into the Democratic Republic of the Congo, sitting largely at elevations between about 1,000 and 1,500 meters. The defining habitat is miombo woodland, a moist deciduous broadleaf savanna dominated by legume trees of the family Fabaceae (subfamily Caesalpinioideae), especially the genera Brachystegia, Julbernardia, and Isoberlinia, with grassland and sandy-soil openings between the stands. The climate is tropical and notably wetter than the surrounding savanna, with rainfall strongly concentrated in the hot summer months from roughly November to March. The ecoregion is the stronghold of the giant sable antelope (Hippotragus niger variani), a critically endangered Angolan endemic protected at Cangandala National Park, and it also harbors a strict-endemic rodent, Vernay's climbing mouse. For gardeners, the signature native flora here are the canopy-forming Brachystegia and Isoberlinia legume trees that give the miombo its character.
Tropical & Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas & Shrublands
Zones 12a-13b
+4.0°F d’ici 2070
173,318 sq mi
Niveau NNH 4
RESOLVE 181 - Australasia
Arnhem Land tropical savanna
The Arnhem Land tropical savanna covers the rugged Arnhem Land peninsula and its offshore islands, including the Tiwi Islands, Groote Eylandt, and the Wessel Islands, in Australia's Northern Territory. Eucalypt open forests dominate the landscape, led by Darwin stringybark (Eucalyptus tetrodonta) and Darwin woollybutt (Eucalyptus miniata) over a tall understory of Sorghum grasses, interspersed with monsoon rainforest patches, mangroves, and Melaleuca swamp forests. The climate is tropical and strongly monsoonal, with a summer wet season and a largely rainless dry season. Long isolation has made it exceptionally diverse: over 1,900 plant taxa have been recorded, at least 200 of them found nowhere else, and a 2017 assessment found that 36% of the ecoregion lies within protected areas such as Kakadu National Park.
Tropical & Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas & Shrublands
Zones 13a-13b
+4.0°F d’ici 2070
61,266 sq mi
Niveau NNH 2
RESOLVE 37 - Afrotropic
Ascension scrub and grasslands
This ecoregion covers Ascension Island, a small volcanic British Overseas Territory in the equatorial Atlantic Ocean, roughly 1,200 km northwest of St. Helena and about 1,700 km from the African mainland. Its natural cover is dry grassland and scrubland with few if any trees, with much of the north and west marked by barren, desert-like ground broken by patches of grass and the endemic Ascension spurge (Euphorbia origanoides), the island's only endemic lowland plant. The climate is subtropical and semi-arid, with temperatures ranging from about 10 to 32 degrees Celsius and low mean annual rainfall around 709 mm, divided into a hotter season and a cooler one. Before human settlement the island supported only 25 to 30 plant species, ten of them endemic, including the shrub Oldenlandia adscensionis, the grass genus Sporobolus, and several endemic ferns such as Asplenium ascensionis and Pteris adscensionis. Today the island is one of the most important seabird breeding sites in the tropical Atlantic, home to the endemic Ascension frigatebird (Fregata aquila) and a globally significant green turtle nesting population, though introduced prickly pear and Mexican thorn now press on its sparse native flora.
Tropical & Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas & Shrublands
Zones 13b
+2.7°F d’ici 2070
36 sq mi
Niveau NNH 4
RESOLVE 564 - Neotropic
Belizian pine savannas
The Belizian pine savannas ecoregion lies almost entirely in Belize along the northwestern Caribbean coast, with only a few very small tracts reaching into neighboring Mexico and Guatemala. Its signature habitat is open savanna dominated by Caribbean pine (Pinus caribaea), woven into a mosaic that also includes calabash tree, white oak species, nanche, and everglades (Paurotis) palm, with closed pine forests in the premontane interior near the Maya Mountains. The climate is tropical monsoon (Koppen Am), warm through the year with a pronounced dry season and roughly 2,000 mm of annual rainfall in the wetter premontane zone. Fire shapes the landscape here: the Caribbean pine depends on periodic low-intensity wildfires to regenerate, and the savannas are the stronghold of the endangered yellow-headed Amazon parrot, now largely restricted to this region and adjacent parts of Mexico and Guatemala. For gardeners, several ornamental natives belong to this flora, including the calabash tree (Crescentia), nanche (Byrsonima crassifolia), and the everglades palm (Acoelorraphe).
Tropical & Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas & Shrublands
Zones 13b
+3.6°F d’ici 2070
1,093 sq mi
Niveau NNH 3

Sources et citations

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