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An evergreen forest is a forest made up of evergreen trees. They occur across a wide range of climatic zones, and include trees such as conifers and holly in cold climates, eucalyptus, live oak, acacias, magnolia, and banksia in more temperate zones, and rainforest trees in tropical zones.
Many tropical areas have both a dry and a wet season. The wet season, rainy season or green season is the time of year, ranging from one or more months when most of the average annual rainfall in a region falls. [9] Areas with wet seasons are disseminated across portions of the tropics and subtropics, some even in temperate regions. [10]
Vertical panorama providing a cross-sectional view of layers of vegetation in the interior of tropical rainforest in Namdapha Tiger Reserve, Arunachal Pradesh, India The tropical vegetation of north-east India (which includes the states of Assam , Nagaland , Manipur , Mizoram , Tripura and Meghalaya as well as the plain regions of Arunachal ...
Mangroves grow in an equatorial climate, typically along coastlines and tidal rivers. They have particular adaptations to take in extra oxygen and remove salt, allowing them to tolerate conditions that kill most plants. The term is also used for tropical coastal vegetation consisting of such species.
The distinction between vegetation (the general appearance of a community) and flora (the taxonomic composition of a community) was first made by Jules Thurmann (1849). ). Prior to this, the two terms (vegetation and flora) were used indiscriminately, [4] [5] and still are in some co
Distribution of living terrestrial vertebrate species, highest concentration of diversity shown in red in equatorial regions, declining polewards (towards the blue end of the spectrum) Biodiversity is not evenly distributed, rather it varies greatly across the globe as well as within regions and seasons.
Ecoregions of the world, spanning all land area (terrestrial) of the planet, were first defined and mapped in 2001 [1] and subsequently revised in 2017. [2] Later, freshwater ecoregions [3] and marine ecoregions [4] of the world were identified.
The Pacific Equatorial Forest is subject to what is known as a tropical monsoon climate. [5] The ecosystem is located directly adjacent to the changeover from the cold and dry Humboldt ocean current from southern Chile and the warm El Niño ocean current (also known as the Equatorial Counter Current) from Panama.