Tropical vegetation

Plant life that occurs in climates that are warm year-round is in general more biologically diverse than in other latitudes.

Some tropical areas may receive abundant rain the whole year round, but others have long dry seasons which last several months and may vary in length and intensity with geographic location.

These seasonal droughts have a great impact on the vegetation, such as in the Madagascar spiny forests.

Here you will find the largest and widest trees in all the forest, commonly 165 feet (fifty meters) and higher.

Despite lush vegetation, often the soils of tropical forests are low in nutrients making them quite vulnerable to slash-and-burn deforestation techniques, which are sometimes an element of shifting cultivation agricultural systems.

[12] Some of the most representative are the Western Zambezian grasslands in Zambia and Angola, as well as the Einasleigh upland savanna in Australia and the Everglades in United States of America.

Tree species such as Acacia and baobab may be present in these ecosystems depending on the region.