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SOUTH AMERICA
2. Deciduous scrub forest (tropical and subtropical scrub and thorn)
3. Subtropical forest (broadleaf evergreen and broadleaf deciduous trees)
4. Coniferous forest (Parana pine and some savanna)
5. Temperate forest (broadleaf deciduous trees and meadows)
6. Palm forest (mostly babassu palms and savanna)
7. Evergreen scrub forest (mediterranean, transitional broadleaf evergreen
scrub)
8. Swamp palm savanna
9. Tropical grassland (savanna) (tall grass and broadleaf evergreen, singly or
in groups, few deciduous trees, gallery forest and jungle)
10. Temperate grassland (prairie)
a) Pampean grassland, very few trees
b) Uruguayan grassland, savanna type
c) Grassland-desert scrub transition
11. Steppe (Patagonian-Fucgian, cold and very dry, vegetation essentially without
trees)
12. Desert
a) Vegetation largely or entirely absent
b) Dry brush and desert scrub
13. Undifferentiated high mountain zone (paramo, puna, tola, alpine prairie etc.
or vegetation largely absent)
14. Subantarctic flora (Falkland Islands, treeless, peat, lichen, tussock and heath
grass)
15. Marsh or swamp
16. Salt flat
17. Fog vegetation (sufficient moisture for seasonal flora)
18. Amazon alluvial floodplain
19. Mangrove
ANDERSON, WILHELM AND OTHERS
1 95 8 Agricultural Geography of Latin America. USD A, Foreign
Agricultural Service, (Miscellaneous Publication No. 743), p. 21.
1958-1959 "SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: DISTRIBUTION OF THE PRINCIPAL TYPES
OF VEGETATION"
black and white 1:9,000,000
1. Evergreen forest
2. Deciduous forest
3. Open steppe
LEGEND
4. Magellanic moorland and forest-free alpine zone, including ice cap
HOLDGATE, M. W.
1961 "Man and environment in the south Chilean islands."
Geographical Journal, vol. 127, facing p. 405.
1959 "SOUTH AMERICA"
in color 1:44,400,000
LEGEND
1. Tundra and permanent snow 3. Mid-latitude mixed forest
2. Evergreen needleleaf forest 4. Mediterranean scrub woodland
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