tropical dry forest
Dry forest canopies are typically more open than the dense closed canopy of a tropical rainforest. High annual temperatures are due in part to tropical dry forests location adjacent to the equator usually within 10 to 20 Latitudes North and South. Phoenix Rising How Costa Rica S Tropical Dry Forest Was Saved Enchanting Costa Rica Beautiful Beaches Costa Rica Costa Edaphic conditions dryer better-drained soil may produce this vegetation type in the rain-forest zone. . Less than 2 of this habitat remains in Ecuador. Most tropical dry forests have been burned to make way for farmland. Tropical dry forest can be defined as forest in frost-free regions with annual precipitation between 500-2000 mm and a pronounced dry season of four to seven months with less than 50 mm of precipitation. An innovative approach to characterize how deforestation took place since 2000. Discussions on responses of vegetation in the tropics to climate and land-use ch...