Would you classify Sydney's vegetation as Mediterranean or Temperate Broadleaf? *pics* (America, compared)
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Sure, and they can also grow many desert plants, Mediterranean plants and cold temperate plants -plants don't do climate classification, only climate.
But I thought plants grow only in certain climate classifications?
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Of course, plants can only grow in climates that allow them too.
The oaks aren't subtropical, and while the pine trees are Mediterranean, they aren't native to Britain, and certainly don't resemble a Mediterranean environment.
Native or not, how are they growing in an non-subtropical climate?
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The subtropics don't have absolute physical parameters.
Aren't all the perimeters human-made anyway? Some maps do include a subtropical zone, such as these:
Sydney veg looks more wide open and less dense than the humid subtropical areas of the SE US. Here is a burb of Charleston SC in Jan. You can see how more dense the vegetation is even in winter.
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Sydney veg looks more wide open and less dense than the humid subtropical areas of the SE US. Here is a burb of Charleston SC in Jan. You can see how more dense the vegetation is even in winter.
Pretty sparse looking bush - there is a similar look in some areas of NZ, but it more related to soil types, or colonising species during regeneration.
Old growth podacarp forest in NZ, is very dense - no sunlight penetration and limited visibility.
There is a correlation between vegetation type and climate, but that's not the whole story, soil also plays a big role too, sometimes even a bigger role than climate. If you have very sandy soils that don't hold water well it's going to be dominated by drought tolerant plants even if that place receives a lot of rain. Also many plants can grow in a wide variety of conditions which is why many plants have a wide distribution. On top of that it's a bit pointless to compare vegetation on different continents who have different evolutionary history, sometimes there will be some convergence such as the deciduous trees in south America but that is not always the case. Also some plants might look very similar but are completely different in the type of climates they prefer, for instance most people associate coniferous trees particularly firs with cold climates and yet they dominate in the very mild PNW.
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