By Ajit Kumar Santra

Ever because the advent of flora and fauna within the educational curriculum of veterinary technology, there was an avid curiosity in regards to the flora and fauna one of the scholar group. at the same time, it has exp\anded the horizon of employment were limited their activites to the future health care of untamed and zoo animals, the necessity of the hour, even though, is to extend their involvements in ohter branches of natural world scinece. in reality, they need to play a cohesive position within the gamut of natural world together with natural world biology, conservation and man-animal clash. for this reason, there's a want of via realizing of the topic within the current perpetives.
although, lokking on the technological know-how natural world so huge and sundry in nature, it's a herculean job for an writer to include whole point inside constrained pages of a ebook. consequently, an attempt has been made to incorpoarte the data on natural world in this kind of method in order that it serves the aim of vast readership. This publication is an out come of greater than ten years rigorous paintings on number of details on natural world. the various chapters were rigorously chosen as a way to meet the requirement of graduate scholars of Indian universities.

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Western and Eastern Himalayas). The biotic province that forms a secondary unit within biogeographic zone helps in studying a particular community separated by dispersal barriers or gradual change in environmental factors. g. g. alpine, sub-alpine and temperate conifer forest within Western Himalayas). The biogeographic classification of India, as documented by WII, is given below: Biogeographic zones 1. Trans-Himalayas 2. Himalayas 3. Indian Desert 4. Semi-arid Zone 5. Western Ghats 6. Deccan Peninsula 7.

The Himalayan foothills that cover forest slopes of the Himalayas range from the eastern frontiers of Kashmir to Bhutan. It comprises the terai, bhabar and siwalik regions of the Western, Central and Eastern Himalayas upto an elevation of about 2000 m. The terai region is characterized by tall grassy meadows and savannah vegetation. The typical faunas occur in this region include elephant, leopard, tiger, wild dog, hyena, jackal, wild boar, sambar, barking deer, hog deer, swamp deer, cheetal, Himalayan black and sloth bears and porcupine.

Semi-arid Zone 5. Western Ghats 6. Deccan Peninsula 7. Gangetic plain 8. North-east India 9. Islands Biotic provinces A) Laddakh A) North-West Himalaya B) West Himalaya C) Central Himalaya D) Eastern Himalaya A) Kutch Desert B) Thar Desert A) Punjab Plain B) Gujarat-Rajwara A) Malabar Plain B) Western Ghats A) Southern Deccan B) Central Deccan C) Eastern Highlands D) Chota Nagpur E) Central Highlands A) Upper Gangetic plain B) Lower Gangetic plain A) Brahmaputra Valley B) Assam Hills A) Andamans B) Nicobars C) Lakshadweep A) West Coast B) East Coast 10.

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