Question

What are the features of vegetation found is desert areas?

Answer 1

The desert is a harsh, unforgiving environment. It is just as hazardous to plants as it is to animals. Temperatures swing wildly between extremes in desert climates. Water is scarce, and in some deserts as much as a year can elapse between rainfalls. Deserts tend to lack shade, and because there is so little humidity in the air, much more solar radiation is found in deserts than in other climates. This is too much sunlight for most plants to handle. Desert plants have found a variety of ways to cope with these extreme conditions, and survive where other plants cannot.

Answer 2

VEGETATION The vegetation of the area has been classified as “scrub jungle”. Plants which can either adapt themselves to high temperatures or to low temperatures and discouraging conditions of soil and rainfall can be found. The trees are commonly lacking, shrubs are the dominant perennials, most of which form thickets e.g. Crotalaria burhia, Leptadenia pyrotechnica, Saricostoma pauciflorum and Zizyphus nummularia. This perhaps is the reason for a very low percentage of tree species. The vegetation can be classified on the basis of habitats viz. 1. Vegetation of sandy areas 2. Weeds and escapes of cultivation 3. Vegetation on hilly tracts 4. Plants of aquatic habitats. 1. Vegetation of Sandy areas The vast sandy tracts which are distributed in the western and central plains of the district, from the dunes to the plains.