Sri Lanka dry-zone dry evergreen forests
- Sri Lanka dry-zone dry evergreen forests
The Sri Lanka dry-zone dry evergreen forests are a tropical dry broadleaf forest ecoregion of the island of Sri Lanka. The ecoregion covers an area of 48,400 square kilometers (18,700 square miles), which includes most of the island of Sri Lanka, with the exception of the islands' southwestern corner and central highlands, home to the Sri Lanka lowland rain forests and Sri Lanka montane rain forests ecoregions, respectively, and the northern Jaffna Peninsula, part of the Deccan thorn scrub forests ecoregion.
The Sri Lanka dry-zone dry evergreen forests are made up mostly of evergreen trees, which distinguish them from the deciduous trees that characterize most other tropical dry broadleaf forest ecoregions. The dry-zone dry evergreen forests most closely resemble the East Deccan dry evergreen forests of India's southeast coast.
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* [http://www.worldwildlife.org/wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/im/im0212_full.html Sri Lanka dry-zone dry evergreen forests (World Wildlife Fund)]
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