Table 1 Climatic typology of Walter [66] and it's correspondence with world vegetation types

I

Equatorial

Evergreen tropical rain forest

II

Tropical with summers rains

Tropical deciduous woodland

II/III

Transition tropical semiarid

Savanna

III

Subtropical arid

Subtropical desert

IV

Winter rain and summers drought

Sclerophyllous woodland-shrubland

V

Warm-temperate

Temperate evergreen forest

VI

Tropical temperate

Nemoral broadleaf-deciduous forest

VII

Arid-temperate

Steppe to cold desert

VIII

Cold temperate (boreal)

Boreal coniferous forest (Taiga)

IX

Artic

Tundra