Tropical Dry Forest
Ana Rubio
Abiotic Factors
Temperature
Temperatures are high all year the average temperature is above 24c. Because of its proximity to the coast fluctuations in annual temperatures are only 10-15c. Frost and temperature blow freezing are rare. The air changer from mosit deu to inter-tropical region mixtures in the summer to the dry air because of a subtropical weather front during the winter.
Preciipitation
The dry season is far longer than the brief period of rainfall. There is no set amount of rain it depends on the area. Annual rainfall is antwhere from 10-20cm to 1000-000 cm per year depending on the specific tropicsl dry forest.
soil
The soil in this this area is richer with nutrients, but is more vulnerable to eroison the annaul mean temperature is approximately 81'F or around 27'c. However, in the dry season thive may increase to 99'f, or 37'c.
Dominant Plants
During the dry season plants sit mostly dormant, drawing on their stored water, perhaps using their green bark to generate some energy, and waiting, waiting for the rains to fall again. Leaf litter dries, and insects, frogs and many others return to their chambers to wait as well. As this dry season reaches its conclusion, those pollinated flowers now produce fruits, which arrive with the first rains. Now there are fruits, and leaves, in abundance, and animals from birds to mammals to insects and lizards begin foraging voraciously to recover weight lost during the dry season, and begin looking for mates. Young are produced quickly, in order to take advantage of the surfeit of fruit and other foods. Soon the forest is teeming with new life, bright green and full of the sounds of animals stocking up in preparation for yet another long, hot dry season.
Rowhiper
Yellow Hibiscus
African Tulip
Birds
Birds
Birds play an important part in the ecosystems of many tropical dry forests around the world. Unfortunately, many species are also endangered such as the orange-necked partridge (Arborophila davidi) of Indochina, the black-and-tawny seedeater (Sporophila nigrofufa) of the Chiquitano forest of South America, and the lesser florican (Eupodotis indica) of the Indian subcontinent. One success story among the threatened bird species is Hawaii's Nene Goose (Branta sandvicensis) which has come back from a population low of 30 to approximately 3,000
Hog Deer
Indian Hog Deer
Hog deer (A. p. porcinus) at Kaziranga National Park
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Mammalia
Order:Artiodactyla
Family:Cervidae
Subfamily:Cervinae
Genus:Hyelaphus
Species:H. porcinus
Hyelaphus porcinus
Zimmermann, 1780
The Indian hog deer (Hyelaphus porcinus) is a small deer whose habitat ranges from Pakistan, through northern India, to mainland southeast Asia, which inhabits much of the Indo-Gangetic Plains of Pakistan, northern India, Nepal, Bangladesh, southwestern Yunnan Province in China, all the way to western Thailand. Introduced populations also exist in Australia[2][3] the United States and Sri Lanka.
It gets its name from the hog-like manner in which it runs through the forests with its head hung low so that it can duck under obstacles instead of leaping over them like most other deer. Cover is taken as soon as it is feasible. During flight, the tail is held erect, showing the white underside
Tigers
Temperature and Precipitacion
Temperature
The anual average temperatures of tropical dry forest are 24.3ºc based on research, on the other hand the average precipitation, based on research also, is 55 mm. It is generally warm year-round; it alternaits wet and dry seasons, and it alson consists of rich soil subject to erosion.
The tropical rain forest is a forest of tall trees in a region of year-round warmth. An average of 50 to 260 inches (125 to 660 cm.) of rain falls yearly.
Rain forests belong to the tropical wet climate group. The temperature in a rain forest rarely gets higher than 93 °F (34 °C) or drops below 68 °F (20 °C); average humidity is between 77 and 88%; rainfall is often more than 100 inches a year. There is usually a brief season of less rain. In monsoonal areas, there is a real dry season. Almost all rain forests lie near the equator.
Rainforests now cover less than 6% of Earth's land surface. Scientists estimate that more than half of all the world's plant and animal species live in tropical rain forests. Tropical rainforests produce 40% of Earth's oxygen
Precipitation