Online Map of Vegetation Regions in China (1999)

The vegetation zone represented by each area in the figure

Ⅰ humid sub-humid forest zone

Ⅰ1 Cold temperate coniferous forest area

Ⅰ 2 Temperate Coniferous and Broad-leaved Mixed Forest Region

Ⅰ 3 warm temperate deciduous broad-leaved forest area

Ⅰ 4 sub-tropical humid evergreen broad-leaved forest region

Ⅰ 5 Semi - humid evergreen broad - leaved forest in western subtropics

Ⅰ 6 Temperate coniferous forest evergreen broad - leaved forest

Ⅰ7 tropical monsoon wet monsoon rain forest, rain forest area

Ⅰ8 Tropical western dry monsoon rainforest, rain forest area

Semi - arid grassland belt

Ⅱ1 temperate grassland region

Ⅱ2 warm temperate grassland region

Ⅱ3 Plateau Alpine Meadow and Grassland Region

Ⅲ arid desert zone

Ⅲ1 temperate desert region

Ⅲ2 warm temperate desert region

Ⅲ3 Plateau Alpine Desert Region

Note

The red solid line in the figure indicates the vegetation zone

The red dotted line in the figure indicates the vegetation area

This map is derived from the Chinese Geographic Atlas of China (Sun Shizhou, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1999)