Narmada Valley dry deciduous forests

Narmada Valley dry deciduous forests
Map of the Narmada Valley dry deciduous forests (in purple)
Ecology
RealmIndomalayan
Biometropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests
Borders
Geography
Area169,456 km2 (65,427 sq mi)
CountryIndia
States
Conservation
Conservation statuscritical/endangered
Protected7,658 km2 (5%)[1]

The Narmada Valley dry deciduous forests are a tropical dry forest ecoregion of central India. The ecoregion lies mostly in Madhya Pradesh state, but extends into portions of Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh states.

  1. ^ Eric Dinerstein, David Olson, et al. (2017). An Ecoregion-Based Approach to Protecting Half the Terrestrial Realm, BioScience, Volume 67, Issue 6, June 2017, Pages 534–545; Supplemental material 2 table S1b. [1]