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One of the most difficult problems in ecology and biogeography is the correlation between vegetation and climate. The workers who laid the foundations of plant geography assumed that, viewed on a large scale, the major vegetation unit (formation-type) represented the response of the plant kingdom to a major climatic type. Thus, for each climatic division recognized by the climatologists, there should be an appropriate vegetation type. However, the vegetational anomalies that occur in broadly similar climatic types around the world are so numerous that, as one worker has said, ‘It is pointless if not positively misleading to make generalisations about such relationships’ (Eyre 1968 p. 182).
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Collinson, A.S. (1988). Vegetation and climate: an introduction to world vegetation patterns. In: Introduction to World Vegetation. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-3935-7_8
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