any 4 features of monsoon forest
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*The trees are short rooted and Thorny shrubs and grassland.
*Monsoon forest, also called dry forest or tropical deciduous forest.
*open woodland in tropical areas that have a long dry season followed by a season of heavy rainfall.
Explanation:
It was the mud that got to Jacob Shell.
The Philadelphia-based geographer, who was doing research in the monsoon forests of northern Myanmar for a book about working elephants in the region, was well-versed in the experience of heavy rain. There, though, “it’s what the rain does to the ground that’s really striking,” he says. “It turns the ground into this very deep, thick, sticky, viscous kind of mud that in my region we just don’t have.
“It’s like, you step into this mud, and your boot gets stuck, and you have to untie it to get your foot out of it, and then you have to gradually pry the now-empty boot out of the mud!”
Monsoon forests – otherwise known as tropical deciduous forests – are scattered across equatorial parts of Southeast Asia, the Americas, Africa and Australia. Straddling the borders between rainforests and dry areas, they’re characterized by contrast. “It’s a kind of transition zone between the humid tropics and the drier but still-tropical vegetation,” says Yves Laumonier, a scientist at the Center for International Forestry Research.
During the rainy or monsoon season, the forests can experience as much or more rainfall than a rainforest, making them lush and green, filled with lianas (woody vines) and epiphytes (plants that grow on other plants). This seasonal ‘closed canopy’ sees little light reach the forest floor. But when the dry season arrives, the forests transform as most trees shed their leaves to conserve precious moisture, and many woody plants that were shaded by the wet-season canopy take the opportunity to flower and fruit.
Monsoon forests oscillate between long, dry periods and heavy rainfall. Siddarth Macchado, Flickr
The animals that live in monsoon forests have also made interesting adaptations to cope with the seasonal extremes. Shell describes watching a snake moving across the ground in monsoon season: “It wasn’t slithering, it was hopping!” he recalls. “It seemed to be its way of dealing with the awkward stickiness of moving around in the mud. So it was hopping like a rabbit… and it was using some sort of like helix-like mechanical maneuver to do that.”
For human communities, these environments offer unique challenges and opportunities, too. In the Hukawng Valley of Kachin State in northern Myanmar, roads become impassable in monsoon season, so local people – mostly members of the Kachin ethnic group – use elephants for transportation during that time. In the dry season, the elephants are enlisted to help with logging and extracting minerals such as jade and amber