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A biogeographic region classification system classifies areas of the Earth according to flora and fauna or biome distribution, or based on factors such as climate (or bioclimatic variables), soil type, and altitude, which give the potential distribution of species and biomes.

There are many classification systems, which work at different scales and were created for different reasons and with different assumptions. Some systems define regions by climatic zones, while others first consider species or biome boundaries.

Before global climatic maps based on weather stations, biomes and soil types were used as bioclimatic indicators where there were no weather stations.

Partial list of land cover classification systems:


 * Ecosystems of the world (Olson et al., 1985)
 * Matthews' (1983) global vegetation
 * Küchler's (1949) physiognomic classification
 * Melillo et al.'s (1993) potential vegetation
 * Holdridge life zone classification (1967)
 * Köppen (1936) climate classification
 * Budyko's (1986) biogeographical zones
 * BIOME (Prentice et al. 1992)

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 * Bioclimate []
 * biogeographic region classification system
 * land cover classification systems
 * biome distributions