Vegetation

Vegetation refers to the plant cover found across a region. India, a tropical country with a strong monsoon climate that sets it apart from other tropical regions of the world, is divided into four major climatic regions — wet, intermediate, dry and arid zones — each of which supports a different character of natural vegetation, shaped further by altitude, soil type, climate and the long history of human (anthropogenic) influence on plant formation and distribution. Tamil Nadu shares this rich biodiversity, running from the Gulf of Mannar to the Western Ghats; it shares the Western Ghats with Kerala, Karnataka, Goa, Maharashtra and Gujarat, and the Eastern Ghats with Andhra Prad …