Areas Descriptio Importanc

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ypes
Alpine Northern areas
(Astore, Gizal,
 T h e y g r o w Used as fuel wood
from tree line
(4000m) to
Forests Skardu, and Gojal)
snow line
(4500m)

 They have low

height to avoid
cold winds
which have
less speed
near the
surface

 These forests
have upward
branches t o
attain more
sunlight
  They grow
between rocks
to shelter
them from
cold winds

 They are
evergreen

 The tree
density is low
as nutrients
are already in
the soil
Northern They grow Important
Coniferou 
areas

from 1000m to

source of
4000m.
s Forests 

NWFP
Balochistan
timber

Mountains  These are the  Attract touris

 (Swat, most
abundant and promote
Shangla,
type of tourism
Abbotabad,
Nowshera, forests found industry
Gilgit, in Northern
Skardu) Pakistan  Add to the
scenic beaut
 Most conifers of the sea
are evergreen

 They have
straight high
trunks to
reach more
sunlight in
valleys to
avoid
shadows

 They have
thick bark to
protect from
 cold weather

 They have
long, thin and
needle
shaped leaves
with waxy
cuticle, so to
minimize
water loss by
evapotranspir
ation
Tropical  Punjab
Plains
 Trees are low Used as firewood
in height 6-10
feet
Thorn  Southern
Balochistan
 As name
Forests  Sindh Plains
suggests they
have lot of
thorns to
prevent
grazing
 They have a
deep tap root
system to
search for
water
 Their small
leaves prevent
water loss.
 Umbrella
shaped tops
enabl es t h e
leaves to
catch as much
sunlight as
possible
 They are These forests Provide
Bela 
found mainly

are a mixture

Shishum an
in Sindh of small
Forest along Indus, shrubs and
Babul, whic
are used
some are grasses along
also found in with trees the
Indus in manufacturin
Punjab, while  Tr e e h e i g h t of furniture
others are varies from 2 and
f ound near -18 metres. agricultural
banks of implements
 They can
Jhelum and
tolerate arid
Chenab
and conditions
 Some species
can also
tolerate high
salt
concentration
in water
 Most species
are evergreen
but not all
 They grow
along banks of
Indus in
straight lines

These forests Watershed

Subtropic 
contain a

protection
mixture of
al Thorn trees, dry
 Supplying
firewood
grass and
Forest shrubs
 Grazing
purposes
 Trees are
Hills and round in
foothills of shape with
Himalayas thick trunks to
reduce water
loss. They
 have broad
leaves for
more
photosynthesi
s

 Tree s als o
have deep
Suleiman roots to
and Kirthar search for
water and
Ranges
they shed
their leaves in
dry period

Western
Mountains

Above the
Makran
Coast Range
They are Trees are They are use
Irrigated 
found at

p l a n t e d at

for makin
Changa once in blocks matchsticks,
Forests Manga near with one type furniture,
Lahore, and of tree in one agricultural
at Chicha block. Same instruments
Watni time of (plough,
plantation gates) an
means they reducing a
can also be pollution etc
 easily  Some tree
harvested at are also use
once for pul
production
 Trees are which make
planted paper an
equidistant to some ar
each other used fo
chemicals lik
 Between the
varnishes o
blocks roads
medicines et
run in
 Some ar
rectangular
used fo
pattern. They
making spor
are used to
goods lik
transport
bats or t
lumber and
make craf
machinery
like woode
 Also, water toys etc
courses run O t h er s m a
between the be used a
blocks. The railway
level of water s l e e p e r s bu
in the courses no t as r a
is lower than engine fu
the trees, so (sleepers a
to prevent planks whic
waterlogging are lai
in the root beneath th
area track)

They are Mangroves They are use

Mangrove 
found in

have prop

for timber, fu
Indus delta roots so they wood, leave
s (Karachi and can absorb for came
Thatta more oxygen fodder,
districts) and through the branches fo
Hab delta pores in their roofs alon
(Gwadar bark. with mud, an
district) for extractio
 They have of honey
highly
impermeable  They als
 roots, which reduce so
limit the erosion i
amount of salt coastal area
entering the due to tid
plant action
 The salt which  ports afte
eventually which
enters the dredging
plant is stored required t
in old leaves make the
when they are deep again
to shed away
 They for
 They have important
thick leathery breeding an
leaves which protection
can control gr o und s f o
the size of fish
their pores
effectively  They reduc
limiting the the impact
amount of tsunami an
water the tropical
plant cyclones b
transpires acting a
barriers t
their brut
force