Winter humid subtropics

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  • Winter humid subtropics

    • The zone of the winter humid subtropics is one of the nine global eco-zones according to J. Schultz. Today it occupies around 1.7% of the earth's land surface. At the beginning of the 21st century, around 7% of these are largely in a near-natural state .

    It lies in the part of the subtropical climate zone known as the " Mediterranean climate " . After the prevailing vegetation, the landscape types of the hard- leaf vegetation are characteristic.

    The boundaries of the winter humid subtropics are in reality fluid, so that an exact extent - as shown on the map - cannot actually be determined. This fact becomes understandable if one uses comparable geozonal models , some of which show significant deviations. See for example the comparable Mediterranean zonobiom on the map of the zonobiome according to Walter and Breckle or the FAO Ecozones .

    Individual evidence

    1. ↑ J. Schultz: The ecological zones of the earth. Ulmer, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-8252-1514-9 .
    2. ↑ Values ​​from J. Schultz: The ecological zones of the earth. 2008. without Antarctica and Greenland converted to the entire land surface. See the article Eco zone # The individual eco zones . (See also the tabular overview of various landscape zone models and their proportions. (PDF; 114 kB))
    3. ↑ Map data for the studies "Last of the wild", "Intact forest landscapes" and "Review of status and conservation of wild land in Europe", summarized in the source description for the "Wilderness World Map" on Wikimedia Commons

    literature

    • J. Schultz: The Earth's Eco Zones. 5th edition. Ulmer, Stuttgart 2016. ISBN 978-3-8252-4628-0 .
    • J. Pfadenhauer, F. Kötzli: Vegetation of the earth. Springer Spectrum, Heidelberg 2014. ISBN 978-3-642-41949-2 .
    • W. Zech, P. Schad, G. Hintermaier-Erhard: Soils of the world. 2nd Edition. Springer Spectrum, Heidelberg 2014. ISBN 978-3-642-36574-4 .