Forest ecosystems of east and southeast Asia in a global perspective
| Autor: | Tatuo Kira |
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| Rok vydání: | 1991 |
| Předmět: |
0106 biological sciences
Mediterranean climate geography geography.geographical_feature_category Ecology Maritime forest Temperate forest Subtropics Old-growth forest 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences Subarctic climate Forest ecology Terrestrial ecosystem Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics 010606 plant biology & botany |
| Zdroj: | Ecological Research. 6:185-200 |
| ISSN: | 0912-3814 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/bf02347161 |
| Popis: | Owing to the influence of the Tibeto-Himalayan Highland, the east-and southeastcoastal zone of the Asian continent lacks the subtropical dry belt, which elsewhere in the world separates temperate forest areas from the humid tropics. Thus forest climates with sufficient rainfall cover coastal areas of the Western Pacific from subarctic eastern Siberia to equatorial SE Asia, giving rise to a sequence of five forest formations. The warmtemperate evergreen (lucidophyll) forest formation is peculiar to this region and represents the east-coast counterpart of Mediterranean sclerophyll forest, which develops under the west-coast climate with a different pattern of seasonal rainfall distribution. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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