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monsoon forest

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monsoon forest [¦män‚sün ′fär·əst]
(ecology)
A tropical forest occurring in regions where a marked dry season is followed by torrential rain; characterized by vegetation adapted to withstand drought.


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The drive to the first camping site gave us a glimpse of the varied habitat of the park, which includes Savanna woodlands, monsoon forests, hills and ridges, tidal flats and coast, sandstone escarpment and floodplains and billabongs.
The villages of the arid high-altitude plateau of Ladakh could scarcely be more different from the homesteads of the monsoon forests of Arunachal Pradesh.
This is Timor's largest wetland area, which backs into the Paichau mountain range that is home to one of the few last remaining dry monsoon forests.
 
 
 
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