VEGETATION AND ITS TYPES IN UAE
DONE BY: AARON PINTO
MAJOR TYPES OF VEGETATION
- UAE CAN BE DIVIDED INTO THREE TYPES OF VEGETATION
- THESE ARE:
- COASTAL VEGETATION
- SEMI DESERT VEGETATION
- DESERT VEGETATION
TYPES OF VEGETATION IN UAE
- VEGETATION IS PLANT ASSEMBELAGES AND THE GROUND COVER THEY PROVIDE.
- THERE ARE DIFFERENT TYPES OF VEGETATION.
- THE VEGETATION TYPE IS DEFINED, BY THE TYPES OF PLANTS GROWN, THE TYPE OF LAND ELEVATION AND SOIL, CLIMATE OF THE AREA ETC.
- SOME OF THE COMMON TYPES OF VEGETATION FOUND IN THE WORLD INCLUDE:
- FORESTS
- GRASSLANDS
- TUNDRAS
- DESERTS AND ICE SHEETS
- THERE ARE THREE MAJOR FACTORS THAT DETERMINE THE VEGETATION OF ANY AREA.
- THESE ARE CLIMATE, EDAPHIC AND BIOTIC CONDITIONS.
- THE CLIMAT OF UAE IS DESERT INFLUENCED;WITH LITTLE RAIN IN WINTERS AND LONG HOT SUMMERS.
- EDAPHIC FACTORS CONCERN SOIL; THIS IS POOR THROUGHOUT THE UAE, AND CONSISTS TYPICALLY OF SANDY AND ROCKY AREAS, LACKING OF NITROGEN.
- BIOTIC FACTORS ARE THOSE CONCERNED WITH OTHER DISTURBANCES; SUCH AS OVERCUUTING, OVERGRAZING BY ANIMALS, FOREST FIRES, AND OTHER FORMS OF DAMAGE.
- A FEW PLANTS THRIVE IN THE MUDDY LAGOON AREAS OF THE COASTAL AREAS.
- PALM TREES ARE COMMON IN ALL TYPES OF VEGETATION IN UAE.
- IN THESE AREAS ONLY SALT TOLERANT PLANTS CAN GROW.
- USUALLY SHRUBS AND BUSHES GROW IN THIS TYPE OF VEGETATION.
- CACTI AND LOONG ROOTED PLANTS ARE NOT FOUND MUCH.
- GRASSES ARE COMMON
- SAND SOIL IS FOUND IN THIS TYPE OF VEGETATION.
- LOT OF CACTI, LOONG ROOTED, THORNY AND STEMED PLANTS ARE FOUND.
- THE SOIL IS EITHER DRY AND HARD OR SANDY
- THIS TYPE OF VEGETATION IS FOUND THROUGHOUT THE DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE DESERT INCLUDING THE OASIS.