Heath
Heath The term heath refers to a plant association, typical of acid soils, consisting mainly of small shrubs, especially Ericaceae.
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Ecosystem
Local ecosystems and large ecosystems and eco regions of the world. A look into that matter that until the 1930s of the last century was also unknown in its terminology. We must arrive at the great ecologist Tansley who, taking up the concept of “biocenosis” from Mœbius and that of “biosystem” from Thiemann, instead coined the term “ecosystem” which soon had the definitive prevalence over all the others. A few years later (1939) he defined and gave the name to another important element of ecology: the “ecotope”.
Guido Bissanti
Antarctic ecozone
Antarctic ecozone The Antarctic ecozone is one of the eight terrestrial ecozones with which the globe has been delimited. The
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Oceanian ecozone
Oceanian ecozone The Oceanian Ecozone is one of the planet’s ecozones that include Polynesia (with the exception of New Zealand),
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Afrotropical ecozone
Afrotropical ecozone The Afrotropical or Paleotropical or Ethiopian Ecozone is a vast eco region of the Earth extending 22.1 million
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Australasian Ecozone
Australasian Ecozone The Australasian Ecozone or Australasia is a geographical area that includes all of Oceania and the easternmost sector
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Indomalaysia
Indomalaysia Indomalaysia or Indo-Malaysian eco-zone or eastern eco-zone that circumscribes a territory that extends over the tropical and subtropical regions
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Palearctic
Palearctic The term Palearctic refers to an eco-zone or region in which the earth’s surface falls. The Palearctic or Palearctic
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Ecology and Landscape
Ecology and Landscape The concept and the definition of “landscape” are complex topics to describe and circumscribe, also because it
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