On 23 Jul 2016 at 13:05, Evyn MacDude wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 2:28 PM, Timothy Collinson
> <xxxxxx@port.ac.uk> wrote:
>      A supplement would be nice, but even just a short section in a
>     world building book or an article from someone who knows something
>     about the possibilities of alien flora would be wonderful. 
>
> Yah know that is weirdly a good idea, if someone was going to write a
> new world detailing book a expanded section of Climate Zones and their
> related flora and fauna would be any idea, 
>
> As I say that maybe a series of Monographs a~La the Kieth Brothers
> Environment guides might be in order, though with a more climatic
> rather topographic bent...

Actually, what you want are biomes.

They are kinda climate, kinda not.

So for example, you get a tundra type biome in the far north and
south, but also above the treeline on mountains.

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