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Did the moody monsoon shrink forests in peninsular India?
A study finds that while forests existed in peninsular India, they were replaced by savanna grasslands over time. And the weakening monsoon was the culprit!
Nils Riedel
Dorian Q. Fuller
Norbert Marwan
Constantin Poretschkin
Nathani Basavaiah
Philip Menzel
Sushma Prasad
Dirk Sachse
Mahesh Sankaran
Saswati Sarkar
Martina Stebich
Posted on 04 Jul, 2021 04:26 PM

Vegetation in peninsular India is dominated by large tracts of grasslands, mainly savanna vegetation.
Savanna grasslands at Nannaj Bustard Sanctuary, Solapur, Maharashtra (Image Source: Raju Kasambe via Wikimedia Commons)
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