Plate 8 Holdridge climate-vegetation classification scheme (from Holdridge 1967).

Tropical/Subtrocal Dry Forest
Trapical/Subtropical Desert Bush

Tropical/Subtropical Savanna

Worm Temperate Dry Forest

Norm Temperate Thorn Steppe

Temperate Desert Bush

Boreal Desert/Dry Bush

Polar Desert/Ice

H&Desert

Tundra

Steppe

Boreal Moist Forest

Bed Wet/Rain Forest

Cool Temperate Forest

Worm Temperate Forest

Subtros-col Moist For st

Subtropical Wet/Rain Forest

Tropical Moist Forest

Tropical Wet/Rain Forest

Plate 9a-e Global map of Holdridge Life Zones under (a)
current climate conditions, and the climate change scenarios
based on (b) GFDL, (c) GISS, (d) OSU, and (e) UKMO General
Circulation Models (see Chapter 1). The resolution is 0.5°
latitude x 0.5° longitude. Key relating aggregated classes to life