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Tropical monsoon forests are deciduous. This is in contrast to their rainforests cousins, which stay evergreen all year round. Only the undergrowth is evergreen in a tropical monsoon forest. The trees shed their leaves in the dry season in the earlier months of the year to minimize water loss.
During this time, the undergrowth gets exposed to more sunlight and hence grows denser. This “growth spurts” are not seen in the tropical rainforests. However, their high temperatures keep them from being classified as temperate forests, even though they have a wider temperature range of about 25C to 30C than their rainforest counterparts.
Also since there is a drought in the earlier part of the year, the trees cannot grow as tall as those in the rainforests. The canopy is hence less dense and more open, allowing for a thicker understory because more light passes through as compared to the rainforests where most of the light gets absorbed by the upper canopy.Tropical monsoon forests are generally found on hot lowlands outside of equatorial zones.
Adaptations include the trees synchronizing their flowering and fruit maturation to the dry seasons, where the temperature is highest and hence flowering occurs best.
Tropical monsoon forests are being chopped down for teak timber, an expensive form of timber.
The picture shows the trees with their leaves already shed.
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Terrestrial environments
sources
www.tropicalisland.de/borneo.html
http://library.thinkquest.org/C0113340/text/biomes/biomes.grassland.tropical.plants.html
https://royercenter.cwc.psu.edu/biodiversity/defined/biosphere/biome-savanna.html
http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Laboratory/Biome/
http://www.panda.org/news_facts/education/university/habitats/index.cfm?habitatID=5
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