Biogeography and vegetation are concerned with the spatial pattern of life: why particular plant communities occur where they do, how those patterns change across landscapes and regions, and how climate, history, disturbance, and human activity interact to shape them. Any one vegetation is the combined expression of environment (climate, soils, etc), odd things that have happened (contingency), and time.
Posts in this category examine forests, rainforests, wetlands, and other vegetation types from a biogeographic perspective. They draw on field observations, maps, climate data, and published works from different parts of the world. These essays explore it as a dynamic system—structured by climate gradients, geological history, evolutionary legacy, and disturbance regimes.
Many of these pieces sit at the boundary between ecology and geography, asking how present-day vegetation reflects both current environmental conditions and deep historical processes. Topics include the definition and misuse of terms such as “rainforest”, the role of seasonality and extremes.
Together, these posts form a exploration of vegetation as a connected pattern of process, and history, and the modern landscape.