Madagascar spiny forests
Madagascar spiny forests | |
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Hot desert climate (BWh) | |
Soil types | sandy |
Conservation | |
Conservation status | critical/endangered |
Global 200 | yes |
Protected | 8.31%[1] |
The Madagascar spiny forests (also known as the Madagascar spiny thickets) is an
Flora
This is the area with the highest level of plant endemism in Madagascar, with 48% of the genera and 95% of the species endemic.
Fauna
Notable inhabitants of the spiny thickets include the spider tortoise (
Conservation
8.31% of the ecoregion is in protected areas.
Gallery
As shown on the map on the right, Madagascar can be divided into four climatic
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The Madagascar ocotillo,ocotillo
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The bottle tree, Moringa drouhardii, found mainly in the spiny forests
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A fat-tailed dwarf lemur of the spiny forests and succulent woodlands
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Verreaux's sifaka, a lemur species occurring, in part, in the spiny forests
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A ring-tailed lemur in Berenty Reserve, set in the spiny forests ecoregion
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Grandidier's mongoose, a range-restricted carnivore of the spiny forests
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The subdesert mesite, endemic to the spiny forests
See also
References
- ^ a b Madagascar spiny thickets. DOPA Explorer. Accessed 7 September 2022
- ^ Elmqvist T, Pyyko ̈nen M, Tengo ̈M, Rakotondrasoa F, Rabakonandrianina E, et al (2007) Patterns of Loss and Regeneration of Tropical DryForest in Madagascar: The Social Institutional Context. PLoS ONE 2(5): e402. doi:10.1371
- ^ ISBN 978-1559633642. Archived from the original(PDF) on 2016-11-01.
- ^ Botanic Gardens Conservation International - Arboretum d'Antsokay
- ^ ISSN 0006-3207. Modified material was copied from this source, which is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
- ^ Cornet A. (1974) "Essai De Cartographie Bioclimatique à Madagascar", Tech. Rep, Orstom.
- ^ Ministère de l’Environnement (1996) "IEFN: Inventaire Ecologique Forestier National", Tech. Rep., Ministère De l’Environnement De Madagascar, Direction Des Eaux Et Forêts, DFS Deutsch Forest Service GmbH, Entreprise d’études de développement rural “Mamokatra”, FTM.
External links and bibliography
- For extent, fragmentation and intact sections, see: A refined classification of the primary vegetation of Madagascar based on the underlying geology, Du Puy and Moat, 1996.
- For dominant plant families, see: Structure and floristic composition of the vegetation in the Réserve Naturelle Intégrale d’Andohahela, Madagascar, Rakotomalaza and Messmer, 1999.
- "Madagascar spiny thickets". Terrestrial Ecoregions. World Wildlife Fund.
- Madagascar spiny thickets (Encyclopedia of the Earth)