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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer,
2005.
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Edición: | 2nd ed. 2005. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto Completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.