Forest Type # 4. Temperate Broad-leaved Deciduous and Mixed Forest: Forest Type # 5. Warm Temperate Broad-leaved Deciduous Forest: Forest Type # 6. What are the 7 types of forests? Top 7 Types of Forests Found in India Forest Type # 1. Evergreen Forests: Forest Type # 2. Dry Deciduo...
These forests are dense, mulch-layered and harbour many types of plants and animals. The trees in an evergreen forest have broad leaves that release excess water through transpiration. In India, evergreen forests are found in theWestern Ghatsin the states of Maharashtra, Kerala and Karnataka. T...
Setaria megaphyllais another most common species of big leaf grass found along the water bodies like rivers or forest. The giant bristle grass occasionally found in India mostly post monsoon it grows in different parts of India. Congress Grass (Parthenium hysterophorus) Gajar Ghans is locally kn...
Hybrid classification approach has been used for the classification of forest types. The classification of vegetation has been carried out based on the ecological rule bases followed by Champion and Seth's (1968) scheme of forest types in India. The present classification scheme has been compared ...
IN a prefatory note to his monograph entitled "A Preliminary Survey of Forest Types in India and Burma"(Ind. For. Rec., N.S. 1, Ho. 1, Govt. Press, Delhi, 1936), Mr. H. G. Champion, sylviculturist at the Dehra Dun Forest Research Institute, defines the purpose of the work. ...
India's forest types are very diverse in their compositions with a long evolutionary and geological history, occurring under many climatic and edaphic conditions. They have been undergoing subtle but significant changes in the composition of forests since the forest types were revised by Champion and...
Forest, complex ecological system in which trees are the dominant life-form. Tree-dominated ecosystems can occur wherever the temperatures rise above 10 degrees Celsius (50 degrees Fahrenheit) in the warmest months and the annual precipitation is more th
Forest Type # 3. Mediterranean Forests: Location: Primarily found in the Mediterranean climate within 35°-45° North and South of the equator. It is a peculiar climo-floral development found in several areas: (a) Adjacent regions of Mediterranean coast, extending east-west over 2,500 kms cov...
Thick canopies of these closely spaced trees do not allow sunlight to penetrate inside the forest even in day time. The following hardwood trees are common here: rosewood, ebony, mahogany, etc.Tropical Deciduous ForestsThese are the monsoon forests. They are found in large parts of India, ...
These forests are near the equator where there is very little seasonal variation and the solar day is a constant length all year round. The greatest expanses of equatorial rainforest are found in lowland Amazonia, the Congo Basin, the Southeast Asian islands of Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea...