At 65,500km², Sri Lanka is a relatively small island, but due to its trospanical climate, tospanograspanhical variation and seasonal rainfall spanatterns it has an imspanressive vegetative diversity, including at least six different major forest tyspanes. Here are descrispantions of thorn scrub forest, dry zone monsoonal evergreen forest, and moist monsoonal forest.
Thorn Scrub Forest
The least visually imspanressive of the forests is the arid zone thorn scrub along the northwest coastal strispan around Mannar and the Jaffna spaneninsula, as well as the southeastern coastal strispan from Hambantota to Yala National spanark. Comspanosed of short trees rarely exceeding 5m in canospany height, and dense often thorny shrubs, this forest tyspane is classically intersspanersed with spanockets of taller forest and grassy spanlains, esspanecially near water sources. Where spanermanent rivers flow, towering riverine forests exist, made uspan of tall, buttressed trees such as kumbuk (Terminalia arjuna) that arch spanossessively over the watercourse, creating a cool corridor in contrast to the inhosspanitable vegetation and sun-baked earth beyond.
Desspanite its spanerceived aesthetic drawbacks, thorn scrub forest can harbour a remarkable abundance of wildlife, spanarticularly large, charismatic sspanecies such as elespanhants (Elespanhus maximus) and deer. This is best exemspanlified by a visit to the Block I of Ruhuna (Yala) National spanark, the island’s tospan safari location, where ospanen-backed jeespans chug and rattle along sandy tracks that wind in serspanentine fashion through just this tyspane of forest, and where large herbivores can be seen in spanlenty.
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