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unusual facts about Riparian forest


Barranca de Oblatos

The Canyon is considered a biogeographic corridor since it is home to four types of vegetation: Tropical Forest, Deciduous, Riparian forest, Rupicolous Gerbil vegetation and secondary vegetation.


Despeñaperros

There are also riparian forests along the various rivers and streams, shadier and more humid, with alders (genus Alnus), ash (genus Fraxinus) and willows (genus Salix).

Grizzled giant squirrel

The grizzled giant squirrel (Ratufa macroura) is a large tree squirrel in the genus Ratufa found in the highlands of the Central and Uva provinces of Sri Lanka, and in patches of riparian forest along the Kaveri River and in the hill forests in the Tamil Nadu and Kerala states of southern India.

Main Turkmen Canal

Nevertheless, it also resulted in the destruction of the native riparian tugai forests, and greatly diminished the inflow of water to the Aral Sea, which caused great ecological catastrophe.


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Common Potoo

A bit further south, where the amount of wood- versus grassland is somewhat lower, it is decidedly rare, and due west, in the Entre Ríos Province of Argentina with its abundant riparian forest it is likewise not common.