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Holdridge life zones

Known as: Bioclimatic areas, Biotemperature, Holdridge life zone 
The Holdridge life zones system is a global bioclimatic scheme for the classification of land areas. It was first published by Leslie Holdridge in… (More)
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2015
2015
Simulating the Effect of Climate Change on Vegetation Zone Distribution on the Loess Plateau, Northwest China
A risk assessment of vegetation zone responses to climate change was conducted using the classical Holdridge life zone model on… (More)
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2014
2014
Controls on fallen leaf chemistry and forest floor element masses in native and novel forests across a tropical island
Litter chemistry varies across landscapes according to factors rarely examined simultaneously. We analyzed 11 elements in forest… (More)
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2014
2014
Mitigating climate change through afforestation: New cost estimates for the United States
  • Anne Sofie Elberg Nielsena, Andrew J. Plantingac, Ralph J. Aligd
  • 2014
We provide new cost estimates for carbon sequestration through afforestation in the U.S. We extend existing studies of carbon… (More)
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2012
2012
Mapping biomes of Australia based on the Holdridge Life Zone Model
In this paper a new biome map of Australia with one million scale was produced based on the Holdridge Life Zone (HLZ) model… (More)
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2012
2012
Simulation of potential vegetation based on GIS
The temperature and precipitation are the key climatic factors to control the vegetation distribution, which decides to the… (More)
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2008
2008
Vegetation Cover Change Monitoring and Analyzing in Huanghe-huaihe-haihe Zone Based on Multi-source Information Fusion
  • Chen Huailianga, Liu Zhongyanga, Jiang Qingxiab
  • 2008
Vegetation, as the comprehensive reflection of climate and other environmental elements, is closely related with climate changes… (More)
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2004
2004
Developing an interactive biosphere for global climate models
A highly generalised (five classes) grouping of Holdridge life zones, has been used to derive predicted ‘natural’ ecosystems for… (More)
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2004
2004
A bioclimatic classification of Chile: woodland communities in the temperate zone
The results of application of a global bioclimatic classification to Chile are presented. A total of 140 weather stations are… (More)
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