what do you know about asia natural vegetation. prepare a report showing the close relation between the rainfall and vegetation of asia by giving appropriate examples.
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An immense range of vegetation is found in Asia, the result of the continent’s wide diversity of latitude, elevation, and climate. Natural conditions, however, are not entirely responsible for the associations of trees, plants, and grasses of Asia; natural landscapes have been transformed by more than eight millennia of farming and other human activities.
The geographic pattern of vegetation
North and Central Asia
The natural landscape has been least affected by people in sparsely populated North Asia. Vast plains, continentality, and the nearness of the Arctic Ocean explain the presence there of a zone of tundra—cold-tolerant low-lying vegetation in an area of permafrost (permanently frozen subsoil)—similar to that found in the European part of Russia and in Canada and the U.S. state of Alaska. In more flourishing parts, the tundra has a discontinuous covering of lichens, mosses, sedges, rushes, some grasses, cushions of bilberries, and dwarf trees of willow and birch; in the far north, lichens grow on favourable hillsides. Because of the greater number of hours of daylight during the summer months, when the Arctic Circle region receives the same amount of light energy as the tropics, the tundra in that season is covered with bright flowers. Nevertheless, climate conditions are extreme. In the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago, off the Arctic coast, thawing begins in May and frosts begin in August, although in some years frosts may occur at night throughout the short summer. The soil never thaws below a depth of 2 to 3 feet (60 to 90 cm); consequently, hollows are badly drained and turn into peat bogs. Windy conditions speed evaporation, and the frozen soil cannot absorb water to compensate for that action, so surface drought often results in wind erosion and the removal of sediments deposited by annual riverine floods.
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