Dry miombo woodlands
Ecoregion
The dry miombo woodlands is an ecoregion in Africa. It has an area of 1,185,632 square kilometres (457,775 sq mi), covering portions of Tanzania, Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Angola.
Climate
The dry miombo woodlands have a seasonal tropical climate. Average annual rainfall ranges from 600 to 1,000 mm. The woodlands have a summer rainy season from November to April, when the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) moves over the region and brings moisture-bearing northeasterly winds. The May to October dry season is cooler, dominated by southeasterly trade winds. In central and northern Tanzania, which are closer to the equator, the rainfall pattern is more bimodal, with a long, more intense wet season from March to May and a shorter, less intense wet season from October to December.
Flora
Dry miombo is an open woodland of mostly deciduous trees, typically less than 15 meters tall with 30 to 60% cover. There shrubs and saplings form a discontinuous understory along with scattered understory trees, and grasses, forbs and subshrubs at ground level. Small seasonally-wet grasslands, known as dambos, grow in areas with poor drainage, and riverine forests grow along rivers.
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