The Ecozones of the World The Ecological Divisions of the Geosphere /

Recent studies have greatly contributed to a better understanding of the earth's ecosystem. This abundantly illustrated book provides a fundamental introduction to the ecological zones of the geosphere. Nine terrestrial ecozones have been distinguished and described in individual chapters with...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schultz, Jürgen (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005.
Edition:Second Edition.
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Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Table of Contents:
  • General: the treatment of the ecozones and global overviews of selected characteristics
  • Distribution
  • Climate
  • Relief and drainage
  • Soils
  • Vegetation and animals
  • Land use
  • Regional section: The individual ecozones
  • Polar subpolar zone
  • Boreal zone
  • Temperate midlatitudes
  • Dry midlatitudes
  • Subtropics with winter rain
  • Subtropics with year-round rain
  • Dry tropics and subtropics
  • Tropics with summer rain
  • Tropics with year-round rain.