Western Ghats

Kudremukha receives an average annual rainfall of 7000 mm, largely due to the forest types of mainly evergreen vegetation that can be found here.

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Dinesh ^club

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Wakening from the dreaming forest there, the hazel-sprig
sang under my tongue, its drifting fragrance
climbed up through my conscious mind

as if suddenly the roots I had left behind
cried out to me, the land I had lost with my childhood---
and I stopped, wounded by the wandering scent.

"Lost in the Forest" ~ Pablo Neruda

2 years ago.

Dinesh ^club

Tropical rain forests, though occupying only 6 percent of the earth’s surface, are believed to contain more than half the species of organisms on earth. I say “believed” because no exact estimate of diversity have been made either for the world at a whole or for rain forests in particular. . . . Page 334

To summarize the present global pattern, latitudinal diversity gradients rising toward the tropics are an indisputable general feature of life. And on the land biodiversity is heavily concentrated in the tropical rain forests. So immense are the insect faunas alone in these forests, comprising possibly tens of millions of species, overwhelming even the opulence of the coral reefs, that of this basis alone it is reasonable to suppose that over half of the species are found here. ~ Page 336

20 months ago.

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