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- Life_zone abstract "The Life Zone concept was developed by C. Hart Merriam in 1889 as a means of describing areas with similar plant and animal communities. Merriam observed that the changes in these communities with an increase in latitude at a constant elevation are similar to the changes seen with an increase in elevation at a constant latitude.The life zones Merriam identified are most applicable to western North America, being developed on the San Francisco Peaks, Arizona and Cascade Range of the northwestern USA. He tried to develop a system that is applicable across the North American continent, but that system is rarely referred to.The life zones that Merriam identified, along with characteristic plants, are as follows: Lower Sonoran (low, hot desert): creosote bush, Joshua tree Upper Sonoran (desert steppe or chaparral): sagebrush, scrub oak, Colorado pinyon, Utah juniper Transition (open woodlands): ponderosa pine Canadian (fir forest): Rocky Mountain Douglas fir, quaking aspen Hudsonian (spruce forest): Engelmann spruce, Rocky Mountains bristlecone pine Arctic-Alpine (alpine meadows or tundra): lichen, grassThe Canadian and Hudsonian life zones are commonly combined into a Boreal life zone.This system has been criticized as being too imprecise. For example, the scrub oak chaparral in Arizona shares relatively few plant and animal species with the Great Basin sagebrush desert, yet both are classified as Upper Sonoran. However it is still sometimes referred to by biologists (and anthropologists) working in the western United States. Much more detailed and empirically based classifications of vegetation and life zones now exist for most areas of the world, such as the list of world ecoregions defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature, or the list of North American ecoregions defined by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation.".
- Life_zone thumbnail Lifezones_Pengo.svg?width=300.
- Life_zone wikiPageID "797966".
- Life_zone wikiPageLength "4155".
- Life_zone wikiPageOutDegree "38".
- Life_zone wikiPageRevisionID "662198187".
- Life_zone wikiPageWikiLink Animal.
- Life_zone wikiPageWikiLink Arizona.
- Life_zone wikiPageWikiLink Aspen.
- Life_zone wikiPageWikiLink Biome.
- Life_zone wikiPageWikiLink Biotemperature.
- Life_zone wikiPageWikiLink Cascade_Range.
- Life_zone wikiPageWikiLink Category:Ecozones.
- Life_zone wikiPageWikiLink Chaparral.
- Life_zone wikiPageWikiLink Clinton_Hart_Merriam.
- Life_zone wikiPageWikiLink Colorado_pinyon.
- Life_zone wikiPageWikiLink Commission_for_Environmental_Cooperation.
- Life_zone wikiPageWikiLink Creosote_bush.
- Life_zone wikiPageWikiLink Ecoregion.
- Life_zone wikiPageWikiLink Ecozone.
- Life_zone wikiPageWikiLink Engelmann_spruce.
- Life_zone wikiPageWikiLink File:Lifezones_Pengo.svg.
- Life_zone wikiPageWikiLink Grass.
- Life_zone wikiPageWikiLink Great_Basin.
- Life_zone wikiPageWikiLink Holdridge_life_zones.
- Life_zone wikiPageWikiLink Juniperus_osteosperma.
- Life_zone wikiPageWikiLink Larrea_tridentata.
- Life_zone wikiPageWikiLink Leslie_Holdridge.
- Life_zone wikiPageWikiLink Lichen.
- Life_zone wikiPageWikiLink List_of_ecoregions_in_North_America_(CEC).
- Life_zone wikiPageWikiLink List_of_terrestrial_ecoregions_(WWF).
- Life_zone wikiPageWikiLink North_America.
- Life_zone wikiPageWikiLink Picea_engelmannii.
- Life_zone wikiPageWikiLink Pinus_aristata.
- Life_zone wikiPageWikiLink Pinus_edulis.
- Life_zone wikiPageWikiLink Pinus_ponderosa.
- Life_zone wikiPageWikiLink Plant.
- Life_zone wikiPageWikiLink Ponderosa_pine.
- Life_zone wikiPageWikiLink Precipitation.
- Life_zone wikiPageWikiLink Precipitation_(meteorology).
- Life_zone wikiPageWikiLink Pseudotsuga_menziesii_var._glauca.
- Life_zone wikiPageWikiLink Quercus_turbinella.
- Life_zone wikiPageWikiLink Rocky_Mountain_Douglas_fir.
- Life_zone wikiPageWikiLink Rocky_Mountains_bristlecone_pine.
- Life_zone wikiPageWikiLink Sagebrush.
- Life_zone wikiPageWikiLink San_Francisco_Peaks.
- Life_zone wikiPageWikiLink The_West_(U.S.).
- Life_zone wikiPageWikiLink United_States.
- Life_zone wikiPageWikiLink Utah_juniper.
- Life_zone wikiPageWikiLink Western_United_States.
- Life_zone wikiPageWikiLink World_Wide_Fund_for_Nature.
- Life_zone wikiPageWikiLink Yucca_brevifolia.
- Life_zone wikiPageWikiLinkText "Biotic zones".
- Life_zone wikiPageWikiLinkText "Canadian zone".
- Life_zone wikiPageWikiLinkText "Life zone".
- Life_zone wikiPageWikiLinkText "Lower Sonoran Zone".
- Life_zone wikiPageWikiLinkText "Upper Sonoran Zone".
- Life_zone wikiPageWikiLinkText "biotic life zones".
- Life_zone wikiPageWikiLinkText "biotic zone".
- Life_zone wikiPageWikiLinkText "biotic zones".
- Life_zone wikiPageWikiLinkText "life zone".
- Life_zone wikiPageWikiLinkText "variety of environments".
- Life_zone wikiPageWikiLinkText "vegetation zones".
- Life_zone hasPhotoCollection Life_zone.
- Life_zone wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Main.
- Life_zone wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Reflist.
- Life_zone subject Category:Ecozones.
- Life_zone type Environment.
- Life_zone comment "The Life Zone concept was developed by C. Hart Merriam in 1889 as a means of describing areas with similar plant and animal communities.".
- Life_zone label "Life zone".
- Life_zone sameAs Livszone.
- Life_zone sameAs Vivozono.
- Life_zone sameAs Zona_de_vida.
- Life_zone sameAs Zona_kehidupan.
- Life_zone sameAs Zon_kehidupan.
- Life_zone sameAs m.03cxj5.
- Life_zone sameAs Q3844972.
- Life_zone sameAs Q3844972.
- Life_zone wasDerivedFrom Life_zone?oldid=662198187.
- Life_zone depiction Lifezones_Pengo.svg.
- Life_zone isPrimaryTopicOf Life_zone.