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The South Deccan Plateau dry deciduous forests is a tropical dry forest ecoregion in southern India. ... Tamil Nadu 1,411.6 square kilometres (545.0 sq mi)
Today the remaining forest is mostly southern tropical thorn scrub, [3] and also includes patches of the original vegetation, tropical dry deciduous forests. [1]Southern tropical thorn scrub forests consist of open, low vegetation with thorny trees with short trunks and low, branching crowns that rarely meet to form a closed canopy.
Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests: Indomalayan: Puducherry: Tamil Nadu: Khathiar–Gir dry deciduous forests: Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu: Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests: Indomalayan: Gujarat: Haryana: Madhya Pradesh: Maharashtra: Rajasthan: Uttar Pradesh: Narmada Valley dry deciduous forests: Chhattisgarh
Forests where a majority of the trees lose their foliage at the end of the typical growing season are called deciduous forests. These forests are found in many areas worldwide and have distinctive ecosystems, understory growth, and soil dynamics. [20] Two distinctive types of deciduous forests are found growing around the world.
[2] [3] It is a prominent part of both dry and moist deciduous forests in southern India up to 1000 m. Common names are asna; saj or saaj; Indian laurel; marutham (Tamil); matti (Kannada); ain (Marathi); taukkyan (Burma); sadar, matti or marda (India); asana (Sri Lanka); and casually crocodile bark due to the characteristic bark pattern.
The East Deccan dry evergreen forests is an ecoregion of southeastern India. The ecoregion includes the coastal region behind the Coromandel Coast on the Bay of Bengal, between the Eastern Ghats and the sea. It covers eastern Tamil Nadu, part of Puducherry and south eastern Andhra Pradesh.
The South Western Ghats moist deciduous forests is an ecoregion in the Western Ghats of southern India with tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests. This biome covers the Nilgiri Hills between elevation of 250 and 1,000 m (820 and 3,280 ft) in Kerala , Karnataka and Tamil Nadu states.
Pakkamalai forest reserve covers an area of 22.38 km 2, [3] and the mountain's dry forests contain a mix of species characteristic of the coastal dry evergreen forests which lie to the east, and the dry deciduous forests that lie to the west in the Eastern Ghats.