Life zone
Concept was developed by C. Hart Merriam in 1889 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Main article: Altitudinal zonation
The life zone concept was developed by C. Hart Merriam in 1889 as a means of describing areas with similar plant and animal communities. Merriam observed that the changes in these communities with an increase in latitude at a constant elevation are similar to the changes seen with an increase in elevation at a constant latitude.[1]