Habitats based on ecological sub-units

HABITATS BASED ON ECOLOGICAL SUB-UNITS

  • This type of classification helps to understand the wild fauna available in different eco systems prevailing in our country.
  • Wide variety of habitats are available in India and hence the biodiversity of this country is a unique one. India is considered as one of the mega biodiversity nations in the world.
Desert Region
  • This habitat comprise trans-Indus districts of Punjab, Western Sind and Baluchistan valley and forms the eastern limits of a great desert region extending through Iran, Iraq and Arabia to the desert parts of North Africa.
  • Wild animals of desert are different from the ones that are seen in general at the other regions.
  • Desert regions are found in many parts of the world like Sahara of North Africa etc.
Tropical rain forest region
  • Heavy rain fall areas are contained in this division.

Examples

  • North-eastern regions.
  • Himalayan slopes consisting of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland and Tripura.
  • Western Ghats of the south India including the Malabar Coast (Dense forest gorges called as the Sholas are seen in Nilgriis which is an off shoot of the Western Ghats).
Tropical evergreen forests or Indo-Malayan sub-region
  • The fauna of this region has similarities between both Indian as well as Malayan and Indo-Chinese fauna.
Himalayan mountain region
  • Animals of this region are mostly the Palaearctic type. Variations are seen even within the Himalayan mountain regions, as the case with eastern parts, higher altitudes in the western Himalayas from Kashmir including Ladakh and Kumaon and Himalayan foothills covering the eastern frontiers of Kashmir and Assam.
Peninsular Indian sub-region
  • Animals of this region are mostly the Palaearctic type. Variations are seen even within the Himalayan mountain regions, as the case with eastern parts, higher altitudes in the western Himalayas from Kashmir including Ladakh and Kumaon and Himalayan foothills covering the eastern frontiers of Kashmir and Assam.
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