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Online Vegetation and Plant Distribution Maps: Pacific & Arctic

Lists of online vegetation maps from website titled "Checklist of Online Vegetation and Plant Distribution Maps." These lists of links are no longer being actively maintained and are provided for archival purposes only.

Pacific

Pacific

Pacific

Cloud Forest Sites in South-east Asia  (Covers also New Guinea, Australia and surrounding islands, UNEP-WCMC)
Global Ecological Zones, Oceania
Malagasy/Indo-australo-malesian Phytogeographic Connections
Mountains and Mountain Forests Insular Southeast Asia  (Includes Papua-New Guinea and surrounding islands, UNEP-WCMC)
Mountains and Mountain Forests Oceania  (UNEP-WCMC)

Australia

Australia: Biodiversity
Bioclimatic Map of the Mediterranean Zone: Australia (South-west)
Major Vegetation Types in Australia 1988
Mountains and Mountain Forests Australia  (UNEP-WCMC)
The National View of Native Vegetation  (UNEP-WCMC)
Prevailing Vegetation  (Inset on: Australia -- Political.   In: Times Survey Atlas of the World, 1922)
Southern Australia and New Zealand Temperate Forest and Protected Areas  (Map 7 UNEP-WCMC)

- Australian Capitol Territory

The Canberra Region : [Showing Forested Areas]

- Gawler Ranges

A Vegetation Map of the Western Gawler Ranges, South Australia 2001

- New South Wales

Vegetation of Barrington Tops Showing the Location of Some of the Pollen Rain Sampling Sites

- Queensland

Maps: Rainfall and Aussie Grass

- Tasmania

Tasmania Regional Forest Agreements

- Victoria

[Victoria]: Forest Explorer
[Victoria] : Simplified Native Vegetation Groups
[Victoria]: Threatened Flora Lifeforms, Biodiversity Map

New Caledonia

Atlas de la Nouvelle-Calédonie: Vegetation  (Almost illegible)

New Zealand

Distribution of Lowland Forest in New Zealand in Pre-European Times
Southern Australia and New Zealand Temperate Forest and Protected Areas  (Map 7 UNEP-WCMC)

Papua New Guinea

Important Areas for Terrestrial Animal Life, Vegetation and Wetlands
Major Areas of Freshwater Swamp and Mangrove in New Guinea (after Paijmans 1990)
Major Wetland Areas in Papua New Guinea
Nouvelle-Guinée Ouest, Nouvelle-Guinée Est = Irian Jaya; Papua New Guinea  (In: Atlas des populations indigènes des forêts denses humides)
Papua New Guinea Rainforests
Vegetation Map of the Adelbert Mountain Range ; Vegetation Map of TNC Southern Adelbert Almami Region ; Ecoregions ; Saxon & Sheppard's 500 Edaphic/Climatic Clusters in New Guinea
Vegetation of the Lake Ipea Region, New Guinea Highlands: II. Kayamanda Swamp [D. Walker]

Index

World & Regional Maps

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Africa

Asia

  • Asia
  • Asia by Region
  • Asia by Country

Europe

  • Europe
  • Europe by Country and Region

Central America

  • Central America
  • Central America by Country
  • West Indies

South America

  • South America
  • Amazon Basin
  • South America by Country and Region

North America

Pacific

Arctic (Polar Regions)

Guide History

Original title of website: Checklist of Online Vegetation and Plant Distribution Maps

Compiled by Claire Englander (1996-2013).  Founding co-compiler Philip Hoehn (1996-2009).   With thanks to Phyllis Bischof, Ed Colijn, Rheal Coupal, John Creaser, Larry Cruse, Joe Dalton, Hugh Eva, Vic Fazio, Xavier Font Castell, Steve Glenn, Lawrence Hislop, Robert Hoare, Michael Jennings, Stephen Killeffer, Brian Klinkenberg, Raino Lampinen, Andrew Lillie, David MacDevette, Philippe Mayaux, Justin Moat, Jim Moore, Tom Owens, Scott Sundberg, Thomas A. Stone, Urs-Beat Brändli, Rob Waller, Hugh D.Wilson and George Wooten.

Maps are no longer being added to or deleted from these lists - the lists are maintained in this guide for archival purposes only.

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