Description: A map from 1888 showing the Vegetation Regions of the world. The map is color–coded to shoe regions of desert, tundra, and ice fields, regions of meadowlands, regions of open forests, regions of dense forest, and regions of very dense forests. "The close relationship between the rain–fall and the character of vegetation, may be appreciated by comparing the chart of Vegetation Regions, with that of Rain–fall. It is seen that all deserts correspond to regions of very light rain–fall, and that the regions of heaviest forest are in regions of heaviest rain–fall."
Place Names: A Complete Map of Globes and Multi-continent, Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, South Americ
ISO Topic Categories: biota,
inlandWaters,
location,
oceans
Keywords: Vegetation Regions of the World, physical, statistical, kBiodiversity, physical features, vegetation, biota,
inlandWaters,
location,
oceans, Unknown, 1888
Source: Russell Hinman, Eclectic Physical Geography (Cincinnati, Ohio: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1888) 332
Map Credit: Courtesy the private collection of Roy Winkelman |
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