A great variety of forests are found in different parts of India due to unequal distribution of rainfall and temperature as well as their seasonal variation, besides varied biotic conditions. The word Forest is derived from Latin word ‘Fores’ meaning outside, the reference being to a village boundary or fence and it includes all uncultivated & uninhabited land.

A great variety of forests are found in different parts of India due to unequal distribution of rainfall and temperature as well as their seasonal variation, besides varied biotic conditions. Accordingly, the forests in India can be divided as:

Division of Forests:

1. Tropical Wet Evergreen Forests
2. Tropical Semi-Evergreen Forests
3. Tropical Moist Deciduous Forests
4. Littoral and Swamp
5. Tropical Dry Deciduous Forest
6. Tropical Thorn Forests
7. Tropical Dry Evergreen Forest
8. Subtropical Broad-Leaved Forests
9. Subtropical Pine Forests
10. Subtropical Dry Evergreen Forests
11. Montane Wet Temperate Forests
12. Himalayan Moist Temperate Forest
13. Himalayan Dry Temperate Forest
14. Subalpine Forest
15. Moist Alpine Scrub
16. Dry Alpine Scrub

Forests of India

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