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Encyclopedia > South Western Ghats moist deciduous forests

The South Western Ghats moist deciduous forests is a tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion of southern India. It covers the southern portion of the Western Ghats range and the Nilgiri Hills between 250 and 1000 meters elevation in Kerala, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu states.


The ecoregion has an area of 23,800 square kilometers (9,200 square miles). It surrounds the South Western Ghats montane rain forests ecoregion, which lies above 1000 meters elevation. The forests of Wayanad in northern Kerala mark the transition to the North Western Ghats moist deciduous forests to the north. To the west, the Malabar Coast moist forests ecoregion extends from below the 250 meter contour to the Malabar Coast. To the east, the ecoregion transitions to the South Deccan Plateau dry deciduous forests ecoregion in the drier rain shadow of the Western Ghats.


External link

South Western Ghats moist deciduous forests (World Wildlife Fund) (http://www.worldwildlife.org/wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/im/im0150_full.html)


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South Western Ghats moist deciduous forests - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (217 words)
The South Western Ghats moist deciduous forests is a tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion of southern India.
The forests of Wayanad in northern Kerala mark the transition to the North Western Ghats moist deciduous forests to the north.
To the east, the ecoregion transitions to the South Deccan Plateau dry deciduous forests ecoregion in the drier rain shadow of the Western Ghats.
Informat.io on South India (5023 words)
South India as a cultural and linguistic entity, comprises the four southern states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu and the Union Territory of Pondicherry, whose inhabitants are referred to as South Indians.
South India is a peninsula in the shape of a vast inverted triangle, bounded on the west by the Arabian Sea, on the east by the Bay of Bengal and on the north by the Vindhya and Satpura ranges.
The narrow strip of verdant land between the Western Ghats and the Arabian Sea is the Konkan region; the term encompasses the area south of the Narmada as far as Goa.
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