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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Oshun: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Cass/: [qb] [QUOTE]: Sure. Why did they include in their map parts of subtropical Africa below the Sahara? Why does subtropical Africa count below the Sahara but not subtropical North Africa. You were already asked this. [/qb][/QUOTE]Who knows [/QUOTE][IMG]http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/facebook/001/255/479/85b.png[/IMG] Durrrr who knows? If your going to argue a classification system, it'd help to be capable of discussing basic questions for why you think the parts of it that are relevant to the conversation to be valid. On a climate map outlining the tropics and subtropics, the southern part of Africa is not in the tropical zone. So why is it classified as part of the same ecological area tropical? And if "tropical" includes the sub tropics now, why isn't the northern part of Africa included? This is a map you stand by, go ahead and defend it. [QUOTE]but if you look up floristic kingdoms you see it: [IMG]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Florenreiche.jpg/300px-Florenreiche.jpg[/IMG] - Good (1947) The above is sometimes modified to this: [IMG]https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EfLnA6iKKoc/UOTtVc3hB1I/AAAAAAAAVH4/fOYLcZBLjcE/s400/Biogeography.2012.jpg[/IMG] - Takhtajan (1986) [but here again the small non-tropical part of southern Africa is classified as "Afro-tropical"] The fact is though in zoogeographical, biogeographical realms & floristic kingdoms, Egypt is separated from lands to the south. [/QB][/QUOTE]I wasn't arguing Egypt had to be considered in the same climate zone. The point was that SSA is not a valid ecological construct. Your maps generally fail to establish SSA as a valid ecological region. Those that may be trying, you can't defend. Oh and about that second image, why is the climate/ecological descriptor Sino-Japanese? Maybe I'm incorrect in my skepticism of this and you can explain this, but it sounds a bit like they may have had at least a little sense of feeling on how humans are divided. Some of these location, even if they may have ecological differences, the map doesn't go into stating what type of ecological structures makes them distinct, merely that the division was made. Like with Afrotropical...I kinda sorta get that they were going for making divisions based on a tropical climate. But there isn't that level of clarity with some of these descriptors. That doesn't seem like it's sticking enough to ecological description to explain why the location is unique from the rest. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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