Forest ecosystems of east and southeast Asia in a global perspective
Abstract Owing to the influence of the Tibeto‐Himalayan Highland, the east‐and southeastcoastal zone of the Asian continent lacks the subtropical dry belt, which elsewhere in the world separates temperate forest areas from the humid tropics. Thus forest climates with sufficient rainfall cover coasta...
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crwiley:10.1007/bf02347161 2024-09-15T18:37:59+00:00 Forest ecosystems of east and southeast Asia in a global perspective Kira, Tatuo 1991 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02347161 https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1007%2FBF02347161 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1007/BF02347161/fullpdf en eng Wiley http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor Ecological Research volume 6, issue 2, page 185-200 ISSN 0912-3814 1440-1703 journal-article 1991 crwiley https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02347161 2024-09-05T05:10:08Z Abstract Owing to the influence of the Tibeto‐Himalayan Highland, the east‐and southeastcoastal zone of the Asian continent lacks the subtropical dry belt, which elsewhere in the world separates temperate forest areas from the humid tropics. Thus forest climates with sufficient rainfall cover coastal areas of the Western Pacific from subarctic eastern Siberia to equatorial SE Asia, giving rise to a sequence of five forest formations. The warmtemperate evergreen (lucidophyll) forest formation is peculiar to this region and represents the east‐coast counterpart of Mediterranean sclerophyll forest, which develops under the west‐coast climate with a different pattern of seasonal rainfall distribution. The characteristics of the five formations and their latitudinal distribution were briefly described as being related to climatic environments. Certain ecosystem properties such as floristic diversity and the rate of organic matter decomposition were found to be very sensitive to thermal gradients, whereas the responses of plant biomass, primary productivity, etc. to changes in thermal climate were less apparent. Article in Journal/Newspaper Subarctic Siberia Wiley Online Library Ecological Research 6 2 185 200 |
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Abstract Owing to the influence of the Tibeto‐Himalayan Highland, the east‐and southeastcoastal zone of the Asian continent lacks the subtropical dry belt, which elsewhere in the world separates temperate forest areas from the humid tropics. Thus forest climates with sufficient rainfall cover coastal areas of the Western Pacific from subarctic eastern Siberia to equatorial SE Asia, giving rise to a sequence of five forest formations. The warmtemperate evergreen (lucidophyll) forest formation is peculiar to this region and represents the east‐coast counterpart of Mediterranean sclerophyll forest, which develops under the west‐coast climate with a different pattern of seasonal rainfall distribution. The characteristics of the five formations and their latitudinal distribution were briefly described as being related to climatic environments. Certain ecosystem properties such as floristic diversity and the rate of organic matter decomposition were found to be very sensitive to thermal gradients, whereas the responses of plant biomass, primary productivity, etc. to changes in thermal climate were less apparent. |
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Forest ecosystems of east and southeast Asia in a global perspective |
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