Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A subdivision of a zone.

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Examples

  • The collembolan Vertagopus brevicaudus a "steppe" species; bbizonal steppe and tundra species; cthis group characterizes the southern tundra subzone; dthis group is relatively small, but is valuable in subdividing the tundra zone into subzones.

    Implications of current species distributions for future biotic change in the Arctic 2009

  • The lowland freshwater swamps (of Peat Swamp subzone, 3-50 m) are very extensive, reaching 50 km inland in the western part and more than 80 km along the eastern boundary.

    Lorentz National Park, Indonesia 2008

  • This subzone is a corridor along which species move both east to west and west to east, as well as from south to north and north to south.

    West Siberian broadleaf and mixed forests 2008

  • There are three subzones: subglacial, from 2,000 m to 3,000 m which is unglaciated; a glaciated subzone between 3,000 m and 5,300 m, with arêtes, cirques, and U-shaped valleys with meandering rivers, and a volcanic subzone dominated by lava and volcanic ash deposited during more recent times on the cones and flanks of the three volcanoes.

    Sangay National Park, Ecuador 2008

  • The ecoregion represents a southernmost latitudinal belt within the subzone of southern taiga in West Siberia which include mixed small-leaf-coniferous, small-leaf and coniferous grass forests.

    West Siberian broadleaf and mixed forests 2008

  • The vegetation types of the mid-montane subzone are mixed mid-montane forest, Castanopsis forest, Nothofagus forest, coniferous forest, mid-montane swamp forest, mid-montane sedge-grass swamp, mid-montane Phragmites grass swamps, mid-montane Miscanthus grassland and succession on abandoned gardens.

    Lorentz National Park, Indonesia 2008

  • The tidal swamp subzone (0-1 m) comprises one land system, the Kajapah land system (KJP) consisting of inter-tidal swamps of mangrove and nipah palm.

    Lorentz National Park, Indonesia 2008

  • The lower montane subzone (600-1,500 m) includes the foothills and lower montane slopes.

    Lorentz National Park, Indonesia 2008

  • This altitudinal zone is subdivided into lower montane subzone, mid-montane subzone and upper montane subzone.

    Lorentz National Park, Indonesia 2008

  • This ecoregion is the southernmost latitudinal belt within the subzone of southern taiga in West Siberia.

    West Siberian broadleaf and mixed forests 2008

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