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Newbigin, Engler, Udvardy & Takhtajan Classification: Biogeographic Regionalization
Biogeographical Classification
- Major Classifications
- Terrestrial Plants
- Terrestrial Animals
- Aquatic Plants & Animals
Classification on Environmental Conditions
Moisture
- Hygrophyte – water loving plants
- Meosphyte – in moist but not wet
- Tropophyte – alternate wet & dry
- Nerophyte – drought areas
Temperature
- Megatherm -
- Mesotherm - warm temperature
- Microtherm – above & warmest temperature
- Hekistotherm – less than
Ronald Good Classification
Classification & Global Distribution of Plants and Animals - Vavilov՚s Genecenters
Engler Classification
Phylogenetic principles - evolutionary history
4 Kingdoms
- Holoarctic
- Paleotropical
- Old Oceanic – Austral (Southern ocean)
- South American
Udvardy՚s Classification
In 1975
Vegetational components
8 Regions
- Nearctic
- Palearctic
- Neotropical
- Africotropical
- Indomalayan
- Oceania
- Australian
- Antarctic
Takhtajan Classification
- In 1986
- 6 kingdom & 35 regions
- Created separated Cape Kingdom
- Importance of Cape Kingdom
Newbigin Classification
- 1917: Man and His Conquest on Nature
- 1936: Plant and Animal Geography
- Basis was disciplinary epistemology and ontology
- Gave 5 regions
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