Talk:Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests

message: well i think that it should be that there is a tropical ry forest at   —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.92.185.162 (talk) 11:35, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Untitled 

message: :Effective conservation of dry broadleaf forests requires the preservation of large and continuous areas of forest.
I wonder how useful this statement is here.  Since DF are less species rich than RF, the areal requirement is actually lower.  In addition, since the canopy is more open and the species are more drought resistant, I suspect that edge effects are less pronouced than they are in more humid forests.
To some extent this statement is a truism, but there is a lack of real hard evidence.  In fact, Janzen's successes in restoring dry forest in Guanacaste province, Costa Rica, are based on discontinuous areas of forest.  So while this statement is not incorrect, it is less important than it would be for rainforests.  Any thoughts?  [[User:
:You should feel free to remove it if you think it is misleading.Guettarda|Guettarda]] 21:35, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The question is whether this is especially true of tropical dry forests. The rest of the text in that section, which talks about the generally larger ranges of dry forest megafauna, recovery after disruption from fire, and the need to include riparian forests in conservation units, suggests to me that the larger conservation units may indeed be called for.  Tom Radulovich 17:36, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Conservation 

message: :The newly bare trees open up the canopy layer, enabling sunlight to reach ground level and facilitate the growth of thick underbrush.
I disagree with this info, but it comes straight from the WWF site.  Canopies in Caribbean dry forests are open enough to allow seed germination under the canopy, but "thick underbrush" is really only present in burned sites.  In contrast to how this is presented, I would say that in the dry season the trees have more access to moisture than anything in the understorey.  Still, I don't know Old World dry forests well enough - I know that fires are considered a "normal" part of the system, and that fires result in grassy understoreys, which are important for animals.  I don't want to impose a neotropical POV but... Does the sentence suggest the the deciduousness is the cause for the understorey?  If so, I disagree.  If it merely suggests that understorey plants benefit from the increase in light - I am skeptical, but I can live with it.  Guettarda 19:36, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Understory

message: I don't see what the value is in listing additional animals.  I don't really see what the benefit is of the existing list, but adding more specific examples only makes the random nature of the list more apparent.  Guettarda 13:18, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Listing animals 

message: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tropical_and_subtropical_dry_broadleaf_forests&action=edit§ion=1
toward parenthetical.2z2z (talk) 05:09, 7 June 1993 (UTC)
thread_title:  found a clumsy phrase. hopefully this inspires better phrasing  :-) 

message: A small article called Monsoon forest was recently-created.  As the terms are pretty much synonymous I WP:BOLDly redirected that page here.  Older versions can be found in that page's edit history or the last version before I turned it into a redirect. Please merge any relevant material into this article.  Thanks.  davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 18:23, 27 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Monsoon forest redirected to here 

message: I've removed a list of specific forests. I've done that for two reasons.
Firstly, it isn't in keeping with WP:EMBED. The list doesn't meet any of the appropriate reasons for embedding a list in an article, yet takes up over half the space of the article.
Secondly, it is inaccurate because it is incomplete. A list, with no qualifications, under geographical variation should list that variation. This list doesn't do that. For example, it lists no forests geographically in Australia, implying that th geogrphic range of these forests doesn't extend to that continent. If the lsit isn't goint to be compete, then it shouldn't be here. Mark Marathon (talk) 04:28, 4 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removal of list under geographical variation 

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