The Ecozones of the World |
| The growing season and conditions for plant growth. |
| Geomorphological processes |
| Drainage and water balance |
| Soil units and soil zones |
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| Landuse. Regional section: The individual ecozones |
| Subtropics with year-round rain |
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| >>Link: Boreal zone\Boreal zone |
| >>Link: Temperate midlatitudes\Temperate midlatitudes |
| >>Link: Drymidlatitudes\Drymidlatitudes |
| Subtropics with winter rain |
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| Dry tropics and subtropics |
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| >>Link: Tropics with summer rain\Tropics with summer rain |
| Tropics with year-round rain |
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| General: the treatment of the ecozones and global overviews of selected characteristics |
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| Temperature, length of day, precipitation |
| Annual temperature changes in the soil and air layer next to the soil |
| Summer solar radiation and heat budget |
| Relief and drainage in periglacial areas |
| Vegetation and fauna in the tundra and polar deserts |
| Distribution of vegetation. |
| Biomass and primary production. |
| Decomposition and turnover of minerals |
| Model of a tundra ecosystem |
| General: the treatment of the ecozones and global overviews of selected characteristics |
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| Structural characteristics of the vegetation |
| Ecosystemmodel of ecozone |
| Available supply of organic matter in the ecosystem |
| Photosynthesis and respiration. |
| Primary production from plant stands. |
| Production capacity of the world’s plant cover |
| Consumption by animals and secondary production |
| General: the treatment of the ecozones and global overviews of selected characteristics |
| Tropics with year-round rain |
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| Structure of the tropical rainforest |
| Dynamics of the vegetation |
| Biomass and primary production. |
| Litter, the litter layer, decomposition and humus |
| Mineral supplies and turnovers |
| General: the treatment of the ecozones and global overviews of selected characteristics |
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| General characteristics of soils in the subtropics and tropics with summer and year-round rain |
| Structural characteristics of savanna vegetation |
| Biomass and primary production. |
| Mineral supplies and turnovers |
| General: the treatment of the ecozones and global overviews of selected characteristics |
| Dry tropics and subtropics |
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| Weathering processes and crusts. |
| Stream erosion and wash denudation |
| Vegetation and soil water budget |
| Adaptation to drought and stress |
| Biomass and primary production |
| General: the treatment of the ecozones and global overviews of selected characteristics |
| Subtropics with year-round rain |
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| Structural characteristics. |
| Available supply and turnover in a semi-evergreen oak forest in the southeastern United States |
| General: the treatment of the ecozones and global overviews of selected characteristics |
| Subtropics with winter rain |
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| Sclerophyllous vegetation |
| Adaptation to summer drought |
| Biomass and primary production |
| General: the treatment of the ecozones and global overviews of selected characteristics |
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| Types of soil in the zone |
| Vegetation and animals in the steppes |
| Life-form and adaptation to winter cold and summer drought |
| Biomass, primary production and decomposition |
| Available supply and turnover of minerals |
| Large scale grain cultivation |
| Extensive pasture economy |
| General: the treatment of the ecozones and global overviews of selected characteristics |
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| Forest tundra, polar and forest tree lines |
| Biomass and primary production. |
| Decomposition, organic soil matter and mineral reserves |
| Boreal coniferous forest ecosystems |
| General: the treatment of the ecozones and global overviews of selected characteristics |
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| Seasonality in deciduous forests |
| Biomass and primary production, growth and litter production |
| Mineral budget in midlatitude deciduous broadleaf and boreal coniferous forests |
| Model of an ecosystemof a deciduous forest |
| General: the treatment of the ecozones and global overviews of selected characteristics |
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