regions itencompasses. Asia has both the highest and the lowest points on the surface ofEarth, has the longest coastline of any continent, is subject overall to the world’s widest climatic extremes, and, consequently, produces the most varied forms of vegetation and animal life on Earth. In...
portrays Antarctica as twice the size of South America, which is appreciably larger. Even so, the projection offers a comparatively reliable portrait of Africa, which straddles the Equator. Base maps with severely distorted areas can misrepresent seriously the extent and importance of thematic informat...
Sinai Peninsula, triangular peninsula linking Africa with Asia and occupying an area of 23,500 square miles (61,000 square km). Usually regarded as being geographically part of Asia, the Sinai Peninsula is the northeastern extremity of Egypt and adjoins
Humboldt was able to make some generalizations about geography in general, and Mexican geography in particular, that have stood the test of time remarkably well. For example, he was the first to describe the vertical differentiation of climatic and vegetation zones in Mexico. Writing in 1811,...
water levels, and biodiversity of flora and fauna. Wetlands are highly vulnerable to both climatic [2] and anthropogenic changes such as drainage, dredging, filling, shoreline modification, water-level regulation, nutrient enrichment, introduction of non-native species, and road development. Historically...
Therefore, there is a need for constructing a higher comprehensive mapping approach that is applicable for (1) different plantation forest types; (2) various ranges of geographic regions; (3) short time coverage (e.g., annual mapping). The advantage of forest mapping studies nowadays is the ...
Africa,Australia,Antarctica, thePacific, theArctic,and theWorld.The online map collection is a searchable database that allows you to make your own journeys into spatial representations of the past. Here you can see the history of cartography through primary sources from 1500 into the 21st century...
regions. The central and western parts are generally characterized as plain and flat areas with an average elevation of between 95 and 3652 m78. The annual mean rainfall is approximately 231–848 mm78. The southern section has a typical mountain climate and the central and northern regions have...
the widespread occurrence of groundwater storage losses in regions with identified GDEs underscores the need to proactively protect these ecosystems from the threat of groundwater depletion in regions not facing the same storage losses, such as found across much of Africa. In many regions around the...
At the end, I would like to obtain a complete picture of the agro-climatical suitability of different crops per municipio in Colombia. However I have some problems. Firstly, I have some problems finding the needed data in the right format. Does somebody knows a database where I can find ...