Plant climate zone

From Glossary of Meteorology



plant climate zone

  1. Area in which a common set of temperature ranges, humidity patterns, and other geographic and seasonal characteristics combine to create a particular plant distribution by allowing certain plants to succeed and causing others to fail.

  2. A region in a climatic classification system that places greatest importance on plant distribution to identify climatic characteristics.


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