Write down the features of Montane forests of India.
1. The decreasing temperature with increasing attitude leads to the corresponding change in the natural vegetation in mountainous areas.2
2. Such type of natural vegetation belt can be found in tropical tundra region.
3. The wet temperature type of forsts is found in between height of 1000 and 2000 meters.
4. Oaks and chestnuts trees predominant here.
5. Trees like pine, deodar, silver fir, spruce and cedar are found in temperate forests between 1500 and 3000 meters.
6. These forests cover mostly the southern slopes of Himalayas.
7. Temperate grasslands are common at higher elevation.
