Pedro,
A. W. Kuchler produced vegetation maps of Aruba, Bonaire, and Curacao. The
citation and legends are reproduced in "International Bibliography of
Vegetation Maps, Section 1, South America, Ed. A. W. Kuchler, 1980. I can
photocopy
those pages and send them to you if you send me your a
Holdridge did his PhD dissertation (Univ. of Michigan) in Haiti, "The Pine
Forest and Adjacent Mountain Vegetation of Haiti, considered from the
Standpoint of a New climatic Classification of Plant Formations" in 1947.
According to "Life Zone Ecology" revised edition (Aug. 1967) by L.R. Holdridg
Holdridge developed his system for Costa Rica. Thus,
the model works best for Central America. However, the
Holdridge model have been used to classify forest
types in most ecological researches in Puerto Rico,
which has a great affinity with the Dominican Republic
in species composition.
Check th
The Holdridge system has been used for ecological mapping in most of Latin
America. I am sure that a map using this system must exist for the Dominican
Republic. I believe that Holdridge developed the system in the Dominican
Republic.
Bob Mowbray
Tropical Forest Ecologist
- Origin
I am working on a vegetation map for parts of southern Dominican
Republic and am wondering if there is a standard vegetation/ecological
classification system for the Caribbean?
I am largely concerned with montane and cloud forests in the
south-central massif across Hispaniola.
Cheers,
Greg Sha
