Indian Forests –
Geographically India has a very much diverse flora and fauna. Indian climate benefits variety of flora and fauna and because of that she has a vast forest cover and diverse wildlife. Forest is the second largest land use in India next to agriculture. These forests have a great relationship with local atmosphere and eco system as they make a healthy environment by controlling the pollution and provide various produces for us. These forests can be classified in following categories.
1. Rain Forest – These forests are found in tropical wet climate having high rain fall. They play the role of cooling the air. The North-Eastern part of India including Cherapunji is famous for the rain forest.
2. Tropical Rain Forests –
These are the result of heavy rain forest and oldest in India. In India, these forests are found in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, the Western Ghats, and the greater Assam region in the north-east. Plants such as coffee, bananas, chocolate, mangoes papayas, sugar cane etc. came from tropical rain forest.
3. Temperate Deciduous Moist Forest –
They are found on the lower slopes of the Siwalik Hills from Jammu to the West Bengal in the east. These forests include trees like sal and teak, mango, bamboo and rose wood.
4. Temperate Deciduous Dry Forest –
The dry deciduous forests are available in the Northern and Southern part of the India except in the North-Eastern states. Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu are home to dry deciduous forest, which include sandalwood, khair, mahua, mango, jackfruit, wattle, bamboo, sema, arjun, sisam etc.
5. Alpine Forest –
These grasslands start at an elevation of above 3000 m grow up to the region just below the snowline. They are common in both the main Himalayan regions as well as the barren cold deserts of the Tran Himalaya.
