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Online Vegetation and Plant Distribution Maps: World

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.

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World

Assessing the Risk of Loss of Biodiversity in the Tropics
Assessment of the Status of the World's Remaining Closed Forests
Bailey Ecoregions Map  (Net Primary Productivity Project)
Bazilevich Global Primary Productivity : Phytomass, Net Primary Production, and Mortmass
Biodiversity Loss: State and Scenarios 2006 and 2050
Biogeographical Regions of the World Africo-Tropical Realm (Udvardy, 1975)
Deforestation Hotspots in Humid Tropics (1997)
Deforestation Rates in Humid Tropics (1987-1997)
Distribution and Biogeographical Provinces of the World’s Mangrove Forests
Domaines in Tropical Forest Biomes
Drylands : Aridity Zones of the World  (for 10 maps of World's drylands)
Fedorova, Varlyguin and Volkova World Vegetation Map
Fossil plant specimens of the world (chiefly Western U.S.)
Frontier Forests : 8000 Years Ago and Today
Geographical Distribution of Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism (AFLP) Variations among Populations of O. longistaminata [map a.] Using Genetic Diversity Cluters [map b.] Using Nei's Genetic Diversity Indices
Geographical Distribution of Indigenous Vegetation / by A.K. Johnston & Arthur Henfrey ; Map of Schouws Phyto-geographic Regions with the Distribution of Plants Especially Influencing the Physiognomy of the Vegetation of the Globe. 1854
Geologic Data and Climate Model Predictions of Latest Cretaceous Vegetation
A GIS-based Map Vegetation Map of the World at the Last Glacial Maximum (25,000 to 15,000 BP)
Global Atlas of Palaeovegetation Since the Last Glacial Maximum  (Includes maps of Europe, Eurasia, Africa, Australasia, North America and South America / Quaternary Environments Network)
Global Biodiversity : Species Numbers of Vascular Plants
Global Distribution of Coral, Mangrove and Seagrass Diversity
Global Distribution of Mangroves : source: UNEP-WCMC 2006
Global Distribution of Current Forests
Global Distribution of Original and Remaining Forests
Global Distribution of Seagrasses-Polygons Dataset (2005)
Global Ecological Map of the World
Global Landcover 2000
Global Land Cover Characterization
Global Land Environments Since the Last Interglacial
Global Vegetation Map
Global 200: the 238 Priority Ecogegions of the Planet
GlobCover Land Cover over South America
Holdridge Life Zones Collected at IIASA
Major Biomes of the World
Malagasy/Indo-australo-malesian Phytogeographic Connections
Mangroves Forests Distributions of the World -- 2000
Map of Global Disturbed Areas
Map Showing Change in Global Forest Cover from 1990 to 2025 (Predicted)
Matthews Global Vegetation Database
Matthews Natural Wetlands Database : Wetlands Type
Matthews Seasonal Integrated Albedo for 32 Vegetation Types
Mid-Holocene and Last Glacial Maximum Vegetation Map : BIOME 6000
Mushroom Observer
Natural Vegetation of the World
NOAA/GVI Eight-year (1983-90) Mean Maximum for World Desertification Atlas
Paleovegetation Maps : Vegetation Maps for the Present (Prior to the Anthropogenic Disturbance) and the Last Glacial Maximum
Pan-tropical Forest Carbon Mapped with Satellite and Field Observations
Pan-tropical Forest Cover Mapped with Cloud-Free Radar Imaging
Status of Terrestrial Ecoregions--Threats and Vulnerabilities
Olson Major World Ecosystem Complexes
Terrestrial Biogeographic Realms of the World; Biogeographical Provinces of the Nearctic Biogeographical, Palearctic Biogeographical, Africotropical Biogeographical, IndoMalayan Biogeographical, Oceanian Biogeographical, Australian Biogeographical, Neotropical Realm
Terrestrial Ecoregions of the Planet
Terrestrial Ecoregions of the World   (National Geographic, WWF)
Terrestrial Global 200 Ecoregions with Outstanding Biodiversity Features and Representative Value
Tropical Montane Cloud Forests
Umrisse der Pflanzengeographie, 1838   (In: Dr. Heinrich Berghaus Physikalischer Atlas, 1849)
Die Vegetations-gebiete der Erde   (In: Richard Andree's allgemeiner Handatlas in sechsundachtzig Karten mit erläuterndem Text, 1881)
World : Agricultural Mosaics and Grasslands
World Atlas of Biodiversity
World : Biodiversity and World Map
World Distribution of Coral Reefs and Mangroves
World Distribution of Tropical Rain Forest (after Trewartha 1961)
World : Dry Tropical Forests  (FAO)
WorldMaps of Plant Diversity
World : Percent Vegetation Cover  (Defries, et al., 1999, 2000)
World : Terrestrial Biomes, Terrestrial and Freshwater Biogeographic Realms, and Marine Biogeographic Realms  (sensu Dasmann, 1974; Udvardy, 1975)
World -- Vegetation & Ocean Currents  (In: Times Survey Atlas of the World, 1922)
World Vegetation Map
World Vegetation Map from NOAA/GVI Data
World Wilderness Areas : Countries with the Most Wilderness   (Sierra Club, World Bank, UNEP/GRID)
World Wildlife Fund Eco-regions for the Neotropics
World's Forests 2000
World's Remaining Closed Rorests  (also by continent)
 

Eurasia

Climate in Northern Eurasia 6000 Years Ago Reconstructed from Pollen Data
Changes in the Woody Biomass Carbon Pool of Northern Temperate and Boreal Forests between the Late 1990s and the Early 1980s and Pool Size During Late 1990s
Comparison of Present and Past Northern Limits for Tree Survival or Climatic Limits of the Boreal Forest
Eurasia during the Last 150,000 Years
Land Cover Map of Northern Eurasia
Northern Hemisphere Plant Disjunctions Principle Areas where Tertiary Relict Floras Occur, and Tertiary Land Bridges between Eurasia and N America
Priority Ecoregions in Eurasia

- Caucasus

Forests in the Caucasus Ecoregion

Indian Ocean

Malagasy/Indo-australo-malesian Phytogeographic Connections

Latin America

Cloud Forest Sites in Latin America
[Cloud Forests : Humid Tropics] (The Cloud Forest Zone (silvo nebula) on the Western Andean Slope -- The Altitudinal Vegetation Belts from Mexico to Colombia -- A Schematic Profile of Vegetation on the Eastern Andean Slopes, from Lo Paz to the Yungos -- Cloud Forest Distribution in the Humid Tropics and Adjacent Areas)
Freshwater Biodiversity of Latin America and the Caribbean
Human Impact on Biodiversity : Latin America
Land Use in Tropical Latin America, 2000
Land Use in Tropical Latin America, 2000
Vegetation map of Latin America / JRC Ispra

Middle East

Mountains and Mountain Forests Middle East and Central Asia  (UNEP-WCMC)
Vegetation Map of the Middle East  (Legibility problems)
Western Asia Temperate Forest and Protected Areas

Southern Hemisphere

Southern Hemisphere Maps and Present-Day Nothofagus Distribution Transoceanic Distribution of Nothofagus Subspecies Lophozonia and Fuscospora and South American Species N. nitida (Subgenus Nothofagus). Map adapted from Swenson et al. [43]. ASE, Australia; NCA, New Caledonia; NGU, New Guinea; NZE, New Zealand; SAM, South America; TAS, Tasmania; Relationship of Australia, New Zealand, and South America 65 Myr and 35 Myr before Present;

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Index

World & Regional Maps

  • World
  • Eurasia
  • Indian Ocean
  • Latin America
  • Middle East
  • Southern Hemisphere

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.