Creating a proper, protected boundary for the wildlife sanctuaries. Distribution of the plant and animal species found in the Indian forests S.No. Forest Rainfall Characteristics Plant species Animal Regions Type species Ebony, Elephants, Rainy parts of 1. Tropical More 1. Have a short dry Rain Forests than 200 Mahogany, Monkey, the Western season. cm Rosewood various Ghats, Island 2. The trees appear birds, groups of green all the year lemur, bats, Lakshwadweep, round. sloth and Andaman and 3. have any Don’t the reptiles, Nicobar particular period to deer, Islands, upper shed the leaves. scorpions, parts of Assam 4. The trees reach up snails and and Tamil to the height of 60 the one Nadu m. horned 5. They are of little rhinoceros commercial use as they are difficult to exploit. 2. Tropical 200cm to 1. Most dominant or Moist Lions, Moist Deciduous 70 cm deciduous tigers, deciduous widespread Forests forests: pigs,deers, forests: vegetation. elephants, 2. These trees shed Teak is the various North-eastern their leaves during most birds, states, foothills the dry season for dominant lizards, of the about 6 to 8 weeks. species. snakes, Himalayas, 3. These forests are Bamboo, Sal, tortoise, Jharkhand, economically very Shisham, insects and West Orissa, significant for India. Sandalwood, worms Chhattisgarh, 4. These forests are Khair, on the eastern also named as the Kusum, slopes of the monsoon forests. Arjun, Western Ghats 5. Every species Mulberry have their own time Dry deciduous of shedding leaves. Dry forests: Therefore, the forest deciduous does not appear forests: Parts of the leave less at any Peninsular Teak , Sal, plateau, plains time of the year. Poles of Bihar, Uttar 6. They are divided Pradesh. into moist and dry deciduous forests 7. Moist deciduous forests are in the areas in the areas of rainfall 200cm to 100cm 8. Dry deciduous forests are found in
Creating a proper, protected boundary for the wildlife sanctuaries. Distribution of the plant and animal species found in the Indian forests S.No. Forest Type Rainfall Characteristics Plant species Animal species Regions 1. Tropical Rain Forests More than 200 cm 1. Have a short dry season. 2. The trees appear green all the year round. 3. Don’t have any particular period to shed the leaves. 4. The trees reach up to the height of 60 m. 5. They are of little commercial use as they are difficult to exploit. Ebony, Mahogany, Rosewood Elephants, Monkey, various birds, lemur, bats, sloth and the reptiles, deer, scorpions, snails and the one horned rhinoceros Rainy parts of the Western Ghats, Island groups of Lakshwadweep, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, upper parts of Assam and Tamil Nadu 2. Tropical Deciduous Forests 200cm to 70 cm 1. Most dominant or widespread vegetation. 2. These trees shed their leaves during the dry season for about 6 to 8 weeks. 3. These forests are economically very significant for India. 4. These forests are also named as the monsoon forests. 5. Every species have their own time of shedding leaves. Therefore, the forest does not appear leave less at any time of the year. 6. They are divided into moist and dry deciduous forests 7. Moist deciduous forests are in the areas in the areas of rainfall 200cm to 100cm 8. Dry deciduous forests are found in Moist deciduous forests: Teak is the most dominant species. Bamboo, Sal, Shisham, Sandalwood, Khair, Kusum, Arjun, Mulberry Dry deciduous forests: Teak , Sal, Poles Lions, tigers, pigs,deers, elephants, various birds, lizards, snakes, tortoise, insects and worms Moist deciduous forests: North-eastern states, foothills of the Himalayas, Jharkhand, West Orissa, Chhattisgarh, on the eastern slopes of the Western Ghats Dry deciduous forests: Parts of the Peninsular plateau, plains of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh.