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  • The average temperature ranges between 27° C and 32° C but the maximum ranges between38° C and 48° C during May and June. The average rainfall is1500 mm but vary from place to place. Some regions have less then 500mm of rainfall.  Even the temporal distribution of rainfall within a single year is highly variable because more than 80% of mean annual rainfall  is received within 3 wet months of summer season.(July, August, and September).Tropical deciduous forest biome : -There is maximum evaporation during warm dry summer months due to which the foliage is dropped to conserve water and prevent death from drought. This can occur any time in the year. Even in the local areas the timings of falling of leaves varies.The number of plant species is less in tropical deciduous forest biome than the tropical evergreen rainforest biome. The height of most of the trees ranges between 12 m and 30 m. Most of the trees are deciduous ( i.e. the foliage falls at least once a year) but the shrubs are evergreen. The large leaves enable the tree to trap more and more rainfall during the wet season, but these large leaves are shed during dry periods to conserve moisture, where as the small and hard xeromorphic leaves enables the tree to withstand dry weather and water deficiencies. The tropical deciduous forest trees are Oak, American beech, chest nut hickory, elm , Sal, bamboo etc.The animals of tropical deciduous forest are elephant, American bald eagle, Black bear, Rhinos, European red squirrel etc.
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