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- adjective Within a single
zone .
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Examples
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Changes in vegetation distribution in relation to climate warming are likely to occur by local expansion of these intrazonal communities and northward movement of zones.
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Within the biomes or zonal vegetation types, there are intrazonal habitats that are frequently associated with variations in soil moisture and snow accumulation, and that have a microclimate that deviates from the general macroclimate associated with flat surfaces.
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Typical communities for a particular latitude are called "zonal", but local variation at the landscape level occurs and these "intrazonal communities" are frequently associated with variations in soil moisture and snow accumulation [4].
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Although each intrazonal community has relatively few species, together they are more differentiated and diverse than zonal ones, and are responsible for about 80% of total species diversity in the regional flora and fauna.
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The intrazonal habitats form a mosaic of communities.
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Many more species occur in intrazonal habitats, occupying relatively small and isolated sites, than in zonal habitats that contain only a small proportion of the regional fauna.
Implications of current species distributions for future biotic change in the Arctic 2009
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Well represented intrazonal communities include wetlands and associated forests.
Kazakh steppe 2008
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