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2007 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
From climate to vegetation
Published in: Vegetation-Climate Interaction
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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On the broadest scale, certain forms of vegetation occur again and again, scattered between different places around the planet. Depending on how finely you might choose to subdivide them, there are between five and twenty fundamental vegetation types in the world. They include, for example, tropical rainforest and savanna in the tropics, and in the high latitudes temperate forest and steppe. Such broad-scale vegetation types are known as “biomes”, and each one of them is distributed between several continents (Figure 2.1a*).