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Thursday, February 13, 2014

Tropical Dry Broad Leaf Forest

Jovan Poggi
Darian Toms
Environmental Science
Tropical Dry Broad Leaf Forest
Biome Project

The Tropical seasonal forest has more or less densely growing trees which loose their leaves during the dry season. Tropical dry forests are usually more likely to take usual threats. Dry forest is found is regions where there are several months of severe to absolute dry season, with most rain falling during a wet season. Dry forests found in very warm regions in the tropics where the mean annual temperature is greater then 17 degrees Celsius. The most important adaptation is among plants to the extended droughts of the dry forests is deciduousness which is the shedding of leaves. By then, plants drop their leaves after the rains end, and halts photosynthesis which produces water that looses the plant which cannot control during dry season. Tropical species show one or more of one of the attributes seen in trees of higher latitudes. The species composition and even genera and families are distinct in each other. They are also similar from species of temperate forest species diversity which is the highest in the neotropical forest.

1 comment:

  1. You are missing some of the required elements in this post: a minimum of two photographs, with captions; examples of flora and fauna from your biome; and physical characteristics of the land in your biome. I also suggest better organization; you ran information about several different subtopics in one paragraph, which makes it hard for the reader to understand what you wrote. Please also be sure to paraphrase everything from your research in your own words; I question if you can explain "genera" to me, or if you just quoted a source that you didn't cite.

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