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According to the National Red List said, Sri Lanka counts 253 land species, 245 species of butterflies, 240 birds, 211 reptiles, 748 evaluated vertebrates and 1,492 invertebrates. [7] Forest coverage is about 70% tropical dry monsoon forests, 15% tropical moist monsoon forests and 5% tropical lower montane forests .
Sri Lanka is one of the world's bio diversity hot-spots. This means that we have a wide range of biological species, fauna and flora, in a variety of habitats. This article deals with the different forest types in Sri Lanka.
3 dni temu · Sri Lanka’s natural vegetation covers about one-third of the total land area. The climax vegetation (i.e., natural vegetation permitted to develop uninterrupted) in most parts of the country is forest. In the Wet Zone, tropical wet evergreen forest dominates in the lowlands, and submontane and montane evergreen forests prevail in the highlands.
Sri Lanka has a striking variety of forest types brought about by spatial variations in rainfall, altitude, and soil. The forests have been categorized broadly as tropical wet lowland evergreen forests (at elevations between 0-1000 m); wet sub-montane forests (at elevations between 1000-1500 m in the wet zone); wet montane forests (at ...
The wildlife of Sri Lanka includes its flora and fauna and their natural habitats. Sri Lanka has one of the highest rates of biological endemism (16% of the fauna and 23% of flowering plants are endemic [1]).
1 sty 2012 · The natural vegetation in Sri Lanka supports over 3771 species of flowering plants (angiosperms) from 214 families and 1522 genera (of which 24.6% are endemic), and 314 species of ferns and fern...
13 gru 2021 · For a relatively small island, Sri Lanka exhibits a wide variety of forest types, which are also classified as some of the most biologically richest in all of Asia. The diversity in forest types is brought about by spatial variations in annual rainfall, altitude and soil.
