Tag: natural vegetation and communities dependent on forest

Karnataka,

• Deodar gives yellowish brown wood. These trees are usually found in Himalayas, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh. It is the most important timber tree providing very soft wood.
  
• It is used for making cheap furniture, railway carriages, railway sleepers, packing boxes, etc.
  

The indian deciduous forests are the most abundantly found among all the different types of forests in india . The indian deciduous are found in a range of landscape from the plains to the hills .

• Mangrove forests comprise of small shrubs or trees that grow in coastal saline or brackish waters. These shrubs or trees can withstand high salinity conditions.
  
• Mangrove forests of Sunderbans are largest mangrove forests of the world. Sundarbans are located in Ganga-Brahmaputra delta of West Bengal and Bangladesh.
  

Thorny bushes are found in dry and hot subtropical areas with seasonal rainfall as low as 500 millimeters.The rainfall is very low and therefore these areas are usually deserts. The bushes shed their leaves seasonally to avoid loss of water.

• Tropical evergreen forests are the forests consisting of evergreen trees with green foliage throughout year. These are tropical forests.
  
• They constitute 7% of earth’s dry land area and 2% of total surface. Such forest give shelter to 50% of world’s species.
  

Tropical evergreen forests are closed canopy forests growing within 28 degrees north or south of the equator. Since they receive more than 200 cm rainfall per year, therefore they are also known as rain-forests

The monkeys tend to live in forest regions where they have lots of trees around them. Other than tropical evergreen forests,they are also abundant in mangrove forests,Savannahs and mountain regions