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Vegetation of Southeast Asia Studies of Forest Types 1963-1965

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Peninsular Region - continued:<br />

Southwest:<br />

Region <strong>of</strong> Ranong, Chaklee and Takuapa - Rain forest, Mangrove<br />

forest and Savanna.<br />

Region <strong>of</strong> Krabi and the island <strong>of</strong> Phuket - Moist Evergreen<br />

and Mangrove forests.<br />

South:<br />

From Trang, Kach^wng, Patalung to Haadyai - Rain and Moist<br />

Evergreen forests.<br />

Area around Songkhla - Mixed Deciduous and Littoral forest.<br />

AERIAL SURVEYS:<br />

Central Region<br />

Khao Yai National <strong>Forest</strong>, Kbrat Plateau, in central Thailand -<br />

Lowland Deciduous, Hill Moist Evergreen and lower-Montane forests.<br />

Eastern Region<br />

Mountain ran^e between east-central Thailand and western Cambodia -<br />

Upland Rain or Moist Evergreen forest.<br />

Between Aranyaprathet and Ubon, in eastern Thailand - mostly Dry<br />

Dipterocarp forest.<br />

<strong>Southeast</strong>ern Rep;ion<br />

Following the southeast coast from Bangkok to the -southwestern<br />

border <strong>of</strong> Cambodia - aerial observations <strong>of</strong> Mangrove forest,<br />

especially in the region <strong>of</strong> Khlung and Trat.<br />

Northeas tern Re gion<br />

From Bangkok to Nakhon Ratchasima, Sakhon Nakhon and Nakhon Phanom,<br />

BS far as the middle Mekong basin - mostly Dry Uipterocarp forest<br />

in the northeast.<br />

From Konkaen to Udon and Non^khai, following the course <strong>of</strong> the<br />

upper Mekong river to Chiangkhan, southward to Ix>ei and southeastward<br />

to Konkaen - aerial survey <strong>of</strong> Dry Dipterocarp, stands <strong>of</strong><br />

Pine on the tablelands around Loei, and Dry Dipterocarp forest,.<br />

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Konkaen northwestward to Loei - over Dry Dipterocarp, Mixed Deciduous.<br />

Teak and Pine forests, thence southward by way <strong>of</strong> Phetchabun to<br />

Bangkok.<br />

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