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	Malabar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Malabar is a region of southern India, lying between the Western Ghats and the Arabian Sea, and comprising the northern half of the state of Kerala.
		The Malabar Coast is also sometimes used as an all encompassing term for the entire Indian coast from the western coast of Konkan to the tip of the subcontinent at Cape Comorin.
		Geographically, the Malabar Coast, especially on its westward-facing mountain slopes, comprises the wettest region of southern India, as the Western Ghats intercept the moisture-laden monsoon rains.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Malabar (586 words)

	Malabar - Indopedia, the Indological knowledgebase
		Malabar is a region along the southwest coast of the Indian peninsula, which forms the northern part of present-day Kerala state.
		The Malabar Coast is an historic name for India's southwest coast, lying on the narrow coastal plain of Karnataka and Kerala states between the Western Ghats range and the Arabian Sea.
		The Malabar Coast, especially on its westward-facing mountain slopes, is the wettest region of southern India, as the Western Ghats intercept the moisture-laden monsoon rains.
	www.indopedia.org /Malabar.html (307 words)

	Malabar Coast moist forests - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Malabar Coast moist forests is a tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion of southwestern India.
		It lies along India's Konkan and Malabar coasts, in a narrow strip between the Arabian Sea and the Western Ghats range, which runs parallel to the coast.
		It is bounded on the east by the North Western Ghats moist deciduous forests in Maharashtra and Karnataka, and the South Western Ghats moist deciduous forests in Kerala.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Malabar_Coast_moist_forests (168 words)

	Malabar Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Malabar is also used by ecologists to refer to the tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf foreststropical moist forests of southwestern India.
		The '''Malabar''' region lies along the southwest coast of the Indian peninsula and forms the northern part of present-day Kerala states and territories of Indiastate.
		With India's independence, Madras presidency became Madras state, which was divided along linguistic lines on November 1 1956, when Malabar district was merged with the Malalalam-speaking Kasaragod district immediately to the north and the state of Travancore-Cochin to the south to form the state of Kerala.
	www.echostatic.com /Malabar.html (484 words)

	TEAK - LoveToKnow Article on TEAK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Near the coast the tree is absent, and inland the most valuable forests are on low hills up to 3000 ft. It grows on a great variety of soils, but there is one indispensable conditionperfect drainage or a dry subsoil.
		Indeed, the forests drained by the Salwin and its feeders are not likely ever to be worked otherwise than on the present plan, under which the logs are floated singly over the rapids and are caught and rafted lower down, at the kyodan or rope station, 70 miles above Moulmein.
		In future, the timber grown in plantations and in forests under regular management may be expected to be much faster grown; and there is no ground for anticipating that rapidly grown timber will be less valuable than that of slow growth, which is at present brought to market.
	36.1911encyclopedia.org /T/TE/TEAK.htm (3125 words)

	North Western Ghats moist deciduous forests (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The North Western Ghats moist deciduous forests is a tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion of southwestern India.
		It is bounded on the west by the Malabar Coast moist forests ecoregion, which lies between the 250 meter elevation and the Malabar Coast.
		The Wayanad forests at the southern end of the ecoregion mark the transition to the South Western Ghats moist deciduous forests to the south.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/N/North-Western-Ghats-moist-deciduous-forests.htm (234 words)

	Special Places in Nature
		It is separated from the nearest other rain forest by the vast, dry Khorat Plateau in central Thailand to the north and east and by the Gulf of Thailand in the west.
		The forest types include Dodonea scrub, subtropical dry evergreen forests of Olea cuspidata, northern dry mixed deciduous forests, dry Siwalik sal (Shorea robusta) forests, moist mixed deciduous forests, subtropical broadleaf wet hill forests, northern tropical semi-evergreen forests, and northern tropical wet evergreen forests.
		Malabar Coast moist forests, India: Many years ago, the Malabar Coast Moist Deciduous Forests ecoregion was a swath of lush tropical evergreen forest that extended along the western coast of the Deccan Peninsula between the Western Ghats Mountains and the Indian Ocean (Champion and Seth 1968).
	www.stevenredhead.com /Natures-Places/gloryofnature.html (1020 words)

	CEYLON - Online Information article about CEYLON
		coast is beset on the N.W. with numberless sandbanks, rocks and shoals, and may be said to be almost connected with coast.
		The clouds are driven against the lofty mountains that overhang the western and southern coasts, and their condensed vapours descend there in copious showers.
		The one is valuable chiefly for its timber, of which large quantities are exported to the Indian coasts; the other supplies the betel-nut in common use amongst natives of the eastern tropics as a masticatory.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /CAU_CHA/CEYLON.html (4429 words)

	Animal Info - Malabar Large Spotted Civet
		The Malabar large spotted civet's original habitat was found in the evergreen rain forest belt in the Western Ghats of southwest India, where it lived in wooded plains and adjoining hill slopes.
		Malabar large spotted civets are aggressive towards members of their own species and have usually been observed alone.
		The Malabar large spotted civet was once very common in the coastal districts of Malabar and Travancore in southwest India.
	www.animalinfo.org /species/carnivor/vivemega.htm (1009 words)

	Insatiable Appetite: CHAPTER SEVEN
		Although foresters studied tropical ecosystems, coming over the course of decades to understand their complexity, fragility, and limited extent, most of their time was spent studying commercially important species, since no species had any "value" unless it was recognized by the buyers of finished products.
		In the teak forests of British India, both along the Malabar Coast and in upper Burma, rotational growth and logging in managed one-species teak plantations was beginning to be assured by the mid-nineteenth century.
		North American foresters were acutely aware that tropical regions could play a greatly expanded role in international trade and thus economic development, and that tropical countries could not afford to leave their forest resources "underutilized" while draining foreign exchange to pay for imports.
	www.ucpress.edu /books/pages/8777/8777.ch07.html (20348 words)

	Encyclopedia: Sikkim
		The forested regions of the state exhibit a diverse range of fauna and flora.
		Owing to its altitudinal gradiation, the state has a wide variety of plants, from tropical to temperate to alpine and tundra, and is perhaps one of the few regions to exhibit such a diversity within such a small area.
		Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests Andaman Islands rain forests (India) Brahmaputra Valley semi-evergreen forests (India) Chin Hills-Arakan Yoma montane forests (India, Myanmar) Eastern highlands moist deciduous forests (India) Himalayan subtropical broadleaf forests (Bhutan, India, Nepal) Malabar Coast moist forests (India) Maldives-Lakshadweep-Chagos Archipelago tropical moist forests...
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Sikkim (9709 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Malabar Coast moist forests (IM0124)
		Many years ago, the Malabar Coast Moist Deciduous Forests [IM0124] ecoregion was a swath of lush tropical evergreen forest that extended along the western coast of the Deccan Peninsula between the Western Ghats Mountains and the Indian Ocean (Champion and Seth 1968).
		The ecoregion represents the semi-evergreen forests along India's Malabar Coast, a narrow strip of land lying between the Indian Ocean to the west and extending up to the 250-m contour of the steep Western Ghats Mountains to the east (after Rodgers and Panwar 1988).
		But the forests have been largely replaced or interspersed with teak, giving the vegetation a semi-deciduous character; the teak is now considered indicative of a secondary successional stage or presence of plantations.
	worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/im/im0124_full.html (1265 words)

	South Western Ghats moist deciduous forests -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The forests of (additional info and facts about Wayanad) Wayanad in northern (additional info and facts about Kerala) Kerala mark the transition to the (additional info and facts about North Western Ghats moist deciduous forests) North Western Ghats moist deciduous forests to the north.
		To the west, the (additional info and facts about Malabar Coast moist forests) Malabar Coast moist forests ecoregion extends from below the 250 meter contour to the (additional info and facts about Malabar Coast) Malabar Coast.
		To the east, the ecoregion transitions to the (additional info and facts about South Deccan Plateau dry deciduous forests) South Deccan Plateau dry deciduous forests ecoregion in the drier (An area that has little precipitation because some barrier causes the winds to lose their moisture before reaching it) rain shadow of the Western Ghats.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/so/south_western_ghats_moist_deciduous_forests.htm (185 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Malabar Coast moist forests (IM0124) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In the semi-evergreen forests along Indiaâs Malabar Coast, teak plantations have replaced many of the original trees, changing forever the character of the forest.
		However, these moist forests still harbor an estimated 97 species of mammals, including a small rodent species that is found only here.
		The moist southern forests have been converted into coconut plantations and rice paddies and the northern forests into teak, rosewood, and rubber plantations.
	nationalgeographic.com /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/im/im0124.html (388 words)

	biology - Western Ghats
		The northern portion of the narrow coastal plain between the Western Ghats and the Arabian Sea is known as the Konkan Coast or simply Konkan, and the southern portion is called Malabar or the Malabar Coast.
		The dense forests also contribute to the precipitation of the area by acting as a substrate for condensation of moist rising (orographic) winds from the sea, and releasing much of the moisture back into the air via transpiration, allowing it to later condense and fall again as rain.
		The evergreen Wayanad forests of Kerala and Tamil Nadu mark the transition zone between the northern and southern ecoregions of the Western Ghats.
	www.biologydaily.com /biology/Western_Ghats (870 words)

	physics - Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests
		Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests are found in a belt around the equator and in the humid subtropics, and are characterized by warm, humid climates with high year-round rainfall.
		Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests are common in several terrestrial ecozones, including parts of the Afrotropic (equatorial Africa), Indomalaya (parts of the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia), the Neotropic (northern South America and Central America), Australasia (eastern Indonesia, New Guinea, and northern Australia), and Oceania (the tropical islands of the Pacific Ocean).
		Windward Islands moist forests (Dominica, Grenada, Martinique, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines)
	physicsdaily.com /physics/Tropical_rainforest (699 words)

	The Hindu : Kerala News : Kakkayam forests rich in flora: study
		A study of the rich floral diversity of the Kakkayam forests in the Western Ghats made by the Malabar Natural History Society (MNHS) calls for urgent conservation measures to protect the region from further degradation.
		Five kinds of vegetation are noted during the study: West coast tropical evergreen forests, West coast semi-evergreen forests, Southern moist mixed decidious forests, Southern hilltop tropical evergreen forests and grasslands.
		While 34 sq km of forest area has already been protected in the vicinity of the Kakkayam dam, the suggestion is that the adjacent Lady's Myth reserve forest covering an extent of 100 sq km could be added to it.
	www.hinduonnet.com /2004/09/04/stories/2004090405940500.htm (516 words)

	Kerala Forests & Wildlife - Wildlife
		The forests of Kerala, due to their diversity and richness, are home to a wide variety of animals and birds.
		forests, which grow by the streamsides, are abodes of elephant herds.
		In 1813, Colonel Munroe was appointed superintendent of forests and unregulated commercial exploitation led to the degradation of the forests.
	www.keralaforest.org /html/wildlife/sanct.htm (6265 words)

	Malabar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Nest-site characteristics and nesting success of the Malabar Gray Hornbill in the southern Western Ghats, India.
		The Malabar Gray Hornbill (Tockus griseus = Ocyceros...
		Anaimalai hill ranges of the Western Ghats, the Malabar Gray Hornbill occurs sympatrically with...
	hallencyclopedia.com /Malabar (517 words)

	info: Geography_of_India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The northern region of Maharashtra and Goa is known as the Konkan Coast and the southern coastline of Kerala is known as the Malabar Coast.
		Among the protected wetlands are the tropical mangrove forests in peninsular India and the salt mudflats in western India.
		The Sundarbans are intersected by a complex network of tidal waterways, mudflats and small islands of salt-tolerant mangrove forests, and presents an excellent example of ongoing ecological processes.
	www.napoli-pizza.net /Geography_of_India.html (5536 words)

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		On the Gold Coast of Western Africa, whence came the good old 'guinea,' not a washing-cradle, not a pound of quicksilver was to be found in 1862; in 1882 five mining companies are at work; and in 1892 there will be as many score.
		The basin-walls, some 2,000 feet high and pinnacled by the loftiest peaks in the island, are profusely dyked and thickly and darkly forested; and in the bright blue air, flecked with woolpack, Manta, the buzzard, and frequent kestrels pass to and fro like flies.
		The moist heat is admirably adapted for old age, and I doubt not that it greatly prolongs life.
	www2.cddc.vt.edu /gutenberg/etext05/8gold10.txt (20869 words)

	North Western Ghats moist deciduous forests -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It surrounds the (additional info and facts about North Western Ghats montane rain forests) North Western Ghats montane rain forests ecoregion, which lies above 1000 meters elevation.
		It is bounded on the west by the (additional info and facts about Malabar Coast moist forests) Malabar Coast moist forests ecoregion, which lies between the 250 meter elevation and the (additional info and facts about Malabar Coast) Malabar Coast.
		The Wayanad forests at the southern end of the ecoregion mark the transition to the (additional info and facts about South Western Ghats moist deciduous forests) South Western Ghats moist deciduous forests to the south.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/n/no/north_western_ghats_moist_deciduous_forests.htm (126 words)

	Equal Earth - Paintings - Indo-Malayan
		One of the primary threats to the remaining forests is shifting cultivation, the practice of clearing land and cultivating it for a short period of time, until the soil is depleted, and then abandoning it and clearing more land for cultivation.
		The Philippine warty pig and the Philippine deer suffer from intense hunting and habitat loss, with the warty pig especially endangered because it is considered a pest to farmers.
		Even in those eastern areas that have enjoyed some forest regrowth, poaching and slash-and-burn agriculture are ongoing threats to both wildlife and its habitat.
	www.equalearth.org /indo-malayan3.htm (785 words)

	indomalaya (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Lower Gangetic Plains moist deciduous forests (Laos, Thailand, Vietnam)
		Northern Khorat Plateau moist deciduous forests (Laos, Thailand)
		Southern Annamites montane rain forests (Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam)
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Indomalaya.html (282 words)

	Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		For the towns in Indonesia and the USA, see Malabar, Indonesia / Malabar, Florida Malabar is a region of southern India, lying between the Western Ghats and the Arabian Sea, and comprising the northern half of the state of Kerala.
		the South Western Ghats montane rain forests cover the areas above 1000 meters elevation The Monsooned Malabar blend of coffee bean comes from the area.
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	www.stylokna.pl /wikipedia/Malabar (517 words)

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