Dry Zone Ecosystems MONSOON FORESTS. Also called dry Mixed-Evergreen Forests or Moist Deciduous Forests. These forests are the most widespread forests in the island, that characterize the lowland dry ...

Located within Sri Lanka’s intermediate climatic zone, Nilgala is primarily covered by dry mixed evergreen forest. However, what truly distinguishes the area is its savanna landscape of open ...

Tropical dry evergreen forest has restricted global distribution — limited to parts of Asia (on the Coromandel coast of India, northern Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Thailand), Africa and Central America ...

Sri Lanka has great diversity of forest ecosystems due to the spatial variation of rainfall, altitude, and soil type. Under the broad category of forests, it can subdivided in to different ecosystems ...

Trees in mixed-species forests are often better supplied with light, water, and soil nutrients via their complementary crown and root systems. "This makes mixed stands more resilient during dry years.

A 2016 meta-analysis by Curtis Bradley et al. indicates that Western ponderosa pine and mixed-conifer forests with higher levels of protection – meaning they have received less intensive ...

He reveals the greatest woodlands on earth, from the evergreen forests of the frozen north to the deciduous dry forests of the equator. The Taiga forest is a silent world of stunted conifers ...

Evidence of forest structure and fires in pre-industrial dry forests—major forests covering ~26 million hectares (64 million acres) of the western U.S.—provides an essential historical baseline.

Droughts can cause dry-season productivity to decline in tropical forests. This decline occurs when precipitation is below 2,000 mm yr−1, resulting in insufficient subsurface water storage to ...

Jielin Ge, Zongqiang Xie, Wenting Xu, Changming Zhao, Controls over leaf litter decomposition in a mixed evergreen and deciduous broad-leaved forest, Central China, Plant and Soil, Vol. 412, No. 1/2, ...