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    A thorn forest is a dense scrubland with vegetation characteristic of dry subtropical and warm temperate areas with a seasonal rainfall averaging 250 to...
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    desert communities dominated by giant columnar cacti. Madagascar spiny forests Atacama Desert Desert – Area of land where little precipitation occurs...
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    The Deccan thorn scrub forests are a xeric shrubland ecoregion of south India and northern Sri Lanka. Historically this area was covered by tropical dry...
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  • Cape province. Its name means "town under the trees", after the Camel Thorn forest it is situated in. The phrase "the town under the trees" was coined by...
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    evergreen species increases and the forests are characterised as "sclerophyllous". Thorn forest, a dense forest of low stature with a high frequency...
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    India. Open forest, whose canopy density is between 10% and 40%, occupies 9.26% of India's land area. India has two natural zones of thorn forest, one in...
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    train. This particular area of land was a semi-desert scrub jungle with thorn forest land and a light alluvial soil that only required the introduction of...
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  • There are several forest sub-types, such as southern tropical forest, southern dry mixed deciduous forest and northern tropical thorn forest, while other predominant...
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    large Central American species of magpie-jay. It ranges in Pacific-slope thorn forest from Jalisco, Mexico, to Guanacaste, Costa Rica. Magpie-jays are noisy...
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    the forest has been degraded through over-use, and thorn forests and shrub thickets are common. To the north and east, the dry deciduous forests transition...
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    The Aravalli West Thorn Scrub Forests, formerly known as Northwestern thorn scrub forests, is a xeric shrubland ecoregion of Pakistan and Northern India...
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    are found across South America in open areas from moist savanna to thorn forests or scrub desert. This family of rodents has fewer members than most...
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    deciduous forest Temperate evergreen forest needleleaf sclerophyll Subarctic-subalpine needle-leaved forests (taiga) Elfin woodland Thorn forest Thorn scrub...
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    meaning "white forest" or "white vegetation" (caa = forest, vegetation, tinga = white). The Caatinga is a xeric shrubland and thorn forest, which consists...
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    vegetation is deciduous thorn forest and woodland ("selva espinosa"), with areas of thorn scrub. Characteristic trees include the boat-thorn acacia (Acacia cochliacantha)...
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    douglasii) is a species of New World quail endemic to Pacific-slope thorn forest of north-western Mexico, from southern Sonora to Nayarit. These are common...
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    grasslands, tropical evergreen forests, semi-evergreen forests, moist deciduous forests, dry deciduous forests and dry thorn forests. They are herbivorous, eating...
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    Woodland/Savanna Malagasy Woodland/Savanna Malagasy Thorn Forest Evergreen sclerophyllous forests, scrubs or woodlands Cape Sclerophyll Warm deserts and...
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    States, and the vegetation consists of ravine, thorn forest, a sub-type of the Northern Tropical Forests (Sub-group 6B/C2 of the revised classification...
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  • Gautam Budha Wildlife Sanctuary (category Chota Nagpur dry deciduous forests)
    forests and Chota Nagpur dry deciduous forests ecoregions. Plant communities include dry and moist sal (Shorea robusta) forests, ravine thorn forest,...
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    Habitat (section Forest)
    forest Cloud forest Peat swamp forest Temperate coniferous forest Temperate deciduous forest Temperate rain forest Thorn forest Tropical dry forest Tropical...
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    are a transition area between the tropical sub-deciduous forest and oak forest. The thorn forest includes an area of the coastal plains in the western part...
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  • constantly moist Rain-forest Tropical districts with pronounced dry seasons Woodland formations (monsoon-forest, savannah-forest, thorn-forest) Grassland formations...
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  • Thumbnail for Caatinga moist-forest enclaves
    Caatinga xeric shrubland and thorn forests ecoregion and Cerrado subtropical savannas ecoregion. The Caatinga enclaves moist forests cover an area of 4,800 km2...
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    (2006). Definitions of Forest, Deforestation, Afforestation, and Reforestation. Gainesville, VA: Forest Information Services. "Forest Service report forecasts...
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    dhole (cuon alpinus) and striped hyena (hyaena hyaena) in a tropical dry thorn forest of southern India". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 104:...
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    Guindy National Park (category Urban forests)
    Chennai, for the Adyar–Guindy area. The park has a dry evergreen scrub and thorn forest, grasslands and water bodies with over 350 species of plants including...
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    BSF to reach the border from the capital Jaipur. Tropical thorn forest Tropical thorn forests are located in arid and semi-arid regions of western Rajasthan...
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    and Nepal. They are found in gardens and thin deciduous forests adjacent to dry thorn forests or farmland. They are easily detected by their distinctive...
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    sanctuary area again falls under the group "Topical Thorn Forest" and subgroup 6B/C "Desert Thorn Forests". The sanctuary area is mostly covered by grasses...
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