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Fig. 3(a) Distribution of the world's terrestrial biomes (from Cox, C.B. and Moore, P.D. 1993. Biogeography: An ecological and evolutionary approach. Blackwell Scientific, London).


Fig. 3(b)'I'he world's biogeographic realms and provinces (after Udvardy, M.D.F. 1975. A classification of the biogeographical provinces of the world. IUCN, Morges, Switzerland).


Fig. 3(c) The world's ecoregions (after Bailey, R.G. and Hogg, H.C. 1986. A world ecoregions map for resource partitioning. Environmental Conservation 13: 195-202).

Fig 18: Remote sensing can be used to monitor changes in the vegetation (UNEP/GRID).