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  • From: Paul d'Aoust <paul@heliosville.com>
  • To: pcdb <pcdb@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [pcdb] Categorizing Setting Using Nested Hierarchical Taxonomies
  • Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 12:48:05 -0700

On Mon, 2007-02-04 at 21:28 -0700, Paul Cereghino wrote:
> If you start looking at biodiversity patterns it gets a little more tangled.
> Another level of mapping identifies 867 world ecoregions... I live in
> NAO524 and I dont know a goddamn thing about Carpentaria Tropical
> Savannah (AA0704)
> http://www.nationalgeographic.com/wildworld/terrestrial.html

I really like this categorisation. It makes a lot of sense to me; I
think that, if we do use site-specific stuff, this would be the map to
use. If it doesn't have licensing issues.

> These two spatial datasets are relatively nested..they both consider
> vegetation physiognomy as an identifiable symptom of climate.

I just want to comment that I really like that sentence :-) for no
reason other than that it has a very well-arranged string of large and
appropriately chosen words.





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