The relationship between the climates, ecology and plant geography of the southern cold temperate zone and of the tropical high mountains

• Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological Sciences
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Royal Society 1960
• Subjects: McMurdo Sound; New Zealand; Patagonia; Quito; Troll; Antarc*; Antarctica; Macquarie Island; Tundra
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.1960.0060; https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rspb.1960.0060

This asymmetry of the two hemispheres may be demonstrated by drawing a profile-diagram of the climatic vegetation belts from the northern to the southern polar regions, or by constructing a ‘summarized continent’ (i.e. a world map showing the proportions of land and sea in the different latitudes of...