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Part E: ZB II: Zonobiome of Savannahs, Deciduous Forests and Grasslands of the Tropical Summer Rainfall Area

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Tropical zonobiome II, characterized by a 12-month thermal growing season, is frost-free like ZB I in the lowlands, but already exhibits a noticeable annual variation in temperature. Heavy cenital rains fall during the warm, mostly perhumid season, and the cooler season is arid. The hygric climate of ZB II is characterized by a pronounced hygric seasonality with a rainy and a dry season, whereby the length of the hygric growing season, i.e. the number of humid and arid months, determines the hygric character of the respective savannah landscape from semihumid, semiarid to arid. Thus, rainfed moist forests, dry forests, moist and dry savannahs to thorn savannahs can be distinguished.

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Breckle, SW., Rafiqpoor, M.D. (2022). Part E: ZB II: Zonobiome of Savannahs, Deciduous Forests and Grasslands of the Tropical Summer Rainfall Area. In: Vegetation and Climate. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-64036-4_6

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