Talk:Ecological classification

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In the spirit of being BOLD, I added this complicated table of parallel terms for ecology space. Every one of these is attested by journal literature, but I lack the resources to find them all. Try googling for these words and they will be found -- it took me hours to verify that they exist. And, yes a geoelement is part of the plant group, not geology. Don't ask me why.... BeeTea 23:53, 30 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well, if it's attested by journal literature then you shoudl cite each and every one of them; I'm particularly concred with the apparently-coined terms in the geology and physiographc columns, which are rare if exist at all in those discpilnes. It's all fine adn dandyc to ecology to go and coin such terms, but to claim that thae yare parallel classificatoins....well, tha'ts OR, and also POV; this appaers to be a WWF oriented classification system, but there are three or four others, also. "Physioregion" in real-world-speak is physiographic regino, for example; "georegion" is if anything a geographic region, not a geologic one, and so on.....Also, a lot of ecology articles read like manifestos, trying to lay out doctrine instead of explorign facts; or at least exploring definitions as laid out by those defining the field; it should only present such claims/defintiions as such, not speak of them as facts - especially when they impinge on terms used by other fields, or seek to supplant them....Skookum1 (talk) 01:06, 17 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I realize the idea of the original author is to support equivalent terms among several science fields regarding the aggregation levels and the size of the areas of the systems they study. I have a added some equivalent terms with a couple of references supporting them. Nevertheless, it is necessary to admit there is no consensus with all the other available sources. Maybe this work can help professionals on these fields to propose some kind of interdisciplinary world-wide effort to create a general framework. Because I think it is self-evident there is a real need about such a thing. I teach a general Science course and I can tell I am having a hard time trying to unify these similar concepts across several fields. George Rodney Maruri Game (talk) 22:21, 30 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

"not related to a table article, an agenda for an environment-ecology article----A crucial concept of land classification, is that each of the areas defined either remains the same over a certain period of time or shows a slow gradual change, without large, sudden changes. This means it is a system in a kind of equilibrium. It postulates an area is an

In ecology:^{[citation needed]}

• ecosphere
  • ecozone
    • ecoprovince
      • ecoregion
        • ecodistrict
          • ecosection
            • ecosite
              • ecotope (ecosystem sensu stricto?)^{[citation needed]}
                • • ecoelement

Biogeography

In biogeography:^{[citation needed]}

• biosphere
  • biome
    • bioregion
      • bioprovince
        • biodistrict
          • biosection
            • biosite
              • biotope‡
                • • bioelement

Biome-related

Realm- or Ecozone-related

Zoogeography

In zoogeography:^{[citation needed]}

• zooosphere
  • zoozone (zoogeographic region) ^[1][2]
    • zooregion
      • zooprovince^[3]
        • zootope

Phytogeography

In phytogeography:^{[citation needed]}

• phytosphere
  • floristic kingdom
    • floristic region
      • floristic province
        • floristic sector
          • floristic district
            • phytotope

Flora-related

Vegetation-related

For the physiognomic approach, see Vegetation#Classifications.

For the assoociation (phytosociological) approach, see Phytosociology#Classificatory traditions.

Physiography

In

• physiosphere
  • physioregion
    • physiotope

Geology

In Geology:^{[citation needed]}

• geosphere
  • georegion
    • geoprovince
      • geotope
        • geoelement

Pedology

In pedology:^{[citation needed]}

• pedosphere
  • pedoregion
    • pedotope

Climatology

Köppen (1884)

• Main climate group, 5 groups, 1st letter
  • Type of precipitation pattern, 2nd letter
    • Subtype, degree of summer heat, 3rd letter

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differences between closed and open vegetation 196.108.156.34 (talk) 15:39, 12 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]