Blackbuck at Point Calimere Wildlife and Bird Sanctuary
Ecoregion territory (in purple)
Ecology
Realm
Indomalayan
Biome
tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests
Borders
Deccan thorn scrub forests
Godavari-Krishna mangroves
Geography
Area
25,084 km2 (9,685 sq mi)
Country
India
States
Andhra Pradesh
Tamil Nadu,
Puducherry (union territory)
Conservation
Conservation status
critical/endangered[1]
Protected
572 km2 (2%)[2]
The East Deccan dry evergreen forests is an ecoregion of southeastern India. The ecoregion includes the coastal region behind the Coromandel Coast on the Bay of Bengal, between the Eastern Ghats and the sea. It covers eastern Tamil Nadu, part of Puducherry and south eastern Andhra Pradesh.
^"East Deccan dry-deciduous forests". Terrestrial Ecoregions. World Wildlife Fund.
^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]
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