Thursday, September 12, 2013

Checklist of Online Vegetation and Plant Distribution Maps

Checklist of Online Vegetation and Plant Distribution Maps

http://cluster3.lib.berkeley.edu/EART/vegmaps.html




World

World

Bailey Ecoregions Map  (Net Primary Productivity Project)
Drylands : Aridity Zones of the World  (for 10 maps of World's drylands)
Global Atlas of Palaeovegetation Since the Last Glacial Maximum  (Includes maps of Europe, Eurasia, Africa, Australasia, North America and South America / Quaternary Environments Network)
Terrestrial Ecoregions of the World   (National Geographic, WWF)
Umrisse der Pflanzengeographie, 1838   (In: Dr. Heinrich Berghaus Physikalischer Atlas, 1849)
Die Vegetations-gebiete der Erde   (In: Richard Andree's allgemeiner Handatlas in sechsundachtzig Karten mit erläuterndem Text, 1881)
World : Percent Vegetation Cover  (Defries, et al., 1999, 2000)
World -- Vegetation & Ocean Currents  (In: Times Survey Atlas of the World, 1922)
World Wilderness Areas : Countries with the Most Wilderness   (Sierra Club, World Bank, UNEP/GRID)
Eurasia
- Caucasus
Latin America
Middle East
Vegetation Map of the Middle East  (Legibility problems)
Southern Hemisphere
Africa
African Lowland Rain Forest   (In Vegetation Patterns and Environmental Gradients in Benin / Aristide Cossi Adomou, p. 2)
Prevailing Vegetation  (Inset on: Africa -- Political.   In: Times Survey Atlas of the World, 1922)
Vegetation Map of Africa = Carte de Végétation de l'Afrique  (3 sheets/feuilles: Southern Africa -- North-Western Africa -- North-Eastern Africa)
Africa, Central
Afrique Central Ouest, Afrique Central Est  (In: Atlas des populations indigènes des forêts denses humides)
CARPE Mapper   (Central African Regional Program for the Environment)
Africa, East
Africa, North
Africa, Southern
National Vegetation Map of Southern Africa Project   (Maps covering South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland; South African National Biodiversity Institute)
South Africa vegetation  (Maps covering Baviaanskloof Mega-Reserve, South Africa and Nambia vegetation types, Mpumalanga vegetation, and Little Karoo)
Africa, West
Vegetation Map of West Africa Showing the Rain Forest Zone and Benin Indicating the Semi-deciduous Forest Sites Where Data Were Collected  (In Vegetation Patterns and Environmental Gradients in Benin / Aristide Cossi Adomou, fig. 4.1)
Algeria
Angola
Benin
The Four Proposed Floristic Areas of Benin Based on Major Plant Community Patterns  (In Vegetation Patterns and Environmental Gradients in Benin / Aristide Cossi Adomou, fig. 2.3)
Map of Benin Showing the Three Major Vegetation Zones According to WhiteL (1983) and the Locations of Protected Areas  (In Vegetation Patterns and Environmental Gradients in Benin / Aristide Cossi Adomou, fig. 1.3)
Botswana
Burkina Faso
Cameroon
Central African Republic
Chad
Congo (Brazzaville)
Congo (Zaïre)
Côte d'Ivoire
Ethiopia
Gabon
Ghana
Guinea
Kenya
Liberia
Libya
Madagascar
Malawi
Mauritania
Morocco
Mozambique
Namibia
Niger
Nigeria
Saint Helena
Sierra Leone
South Africa
Sudan
Tanzania
Togo
Tunisia
Uganda
Victoria, Lake Region
Zambezi Basin
Polar Regions
Svalbard
Arctic Svalbard Archipelago : Sphagnum (Bryophyta) in the Hornsund Area, Spitzbergen - S. riparium and S. quarrosum (Bryophyta)  (The first documented record of Sphagnum riparium (Bryophyta): Sphagnaceae from Spitsbergen)
Asia (see also Eurasia)
Asia
Vegetation Index Map of Asia (1986, 1990, 1993)
Asia, Central
Asia, East
Asia, South
Asia, Southeast
Cloud Forest Sites in South-east Asia  (Covers also New Guinea, Australia and surrounding islands, UNEP-WCMC)
Geographical Distribution of Biomass Carbon in Tropical Southeast Asian Forests: A Database  (Includes: Potential carbon densities in forests; Vegetation type; Ecofloristic zone classification; Actual carbon densities in forests)
Afghanistan
Armenia
Borneo
Bornéo Nord, Bornéo Sud  (In: Atlas des populations indigènes des forêts denses humides)
Burma
Cambodia
Cambodia Atlas  (Includes layers showing community forestry, seed source sites, terrestrial vegetation and landuse patterns, protected areas and forests, forest cover (various years), forest disturbance; by Royal Danish Embassy, Danish International Development Assistance)
China
- Tibet
India
- Goa
- Nilgiri District
- India, South
- Maharashtra
- Western Ghats
Indonesia
Célèbes; Moluques et Seram  (In: Atlas des populations indigènes des forêts denses humides)
- Irian Jaya
Nouvelle-Guinée Ouest, Nouvelle-Guinée Est = Irian Jaya; Papua New Guinea    (In: Atlas des populations indigènes des forêts denses humides)
- Jambi Province
- Krakatoa
- Sumatra
Iraq
Israel
Japan
- Hokkaido
Kazakhstan
Korea
Malaysia
Malaisie peninsulaire  (In: Atlas des populations indigènes des forêts denses humides)
Mekong River Valley
Mongolia
Philippines
Dupinga Watershed  (In: Poffenberger, M. and McGean, B. (eds.) (1993). Upland Philippine Communities: Guardians of the Final Forest Frontiers)
Philippines  (In: Atlas des populations indigènes des forêts denses humides)
Sri Lanka
Thailand
Vietnam