Research Article
A Phytogeographical Classification of the North American Pacific Coast Based on Climate, Vegetation and a Floristic Analysis of Vascular Plants
Table 1
Distribution ranges of the phytogeographical elements used in this work.
| | Phytogeographical element | Distribution range |
| AAT | Amphi-Atlantic Tropical | Tropical zones of both Atlantic coasts | APT | Amphi-Pacific Tropical | Tropical zones of both Pacific coasts | BAJ | Bajacalifornian | Bajacalifornian and Sanlucan provinces (1) | BOR | Boreal Northwestern Pacific | Boreal coasts of Alaska and British Columbia | CAL | Californian | Californian Region (1) | COS | Cosmopolitan | Ubiquitous | DIS | Disjunct (only for genera) | Two o more separated phytogeographical regions (2) | HOL | Holarctic | Holarctic Kingdom (3) | INT | Introduced | Non-native taxa | MAD | Madrean | Madrean Region (3) | NAE | North American-Eastern Asian | Amphi-Pacific extratropical taxa | NAS | North American-South American | Both Americas (excluding NEO taxa) | NEO | Neotropical | Neotropical Kingdom | NOA | North American | North America, including Greenland and Mexico | PAC | Pacific | Pacific coast | PAN | Pantropical | Pantropical taxa | SON | Sonoran | Sonoran Province (4) | TEM | Temperate Northwestern Pacific | Temperate coast between Oregon and British Columbia | WES | Western North-American | West of the Rocky Mountains |
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(1) See Figure 1. (2) Excluding NAE, NAS, NEO and PAN genera. (3) Sensu Takhtajan [26]. (4) Sensu Takhtajan (l.c.), but excluding BAJ taxa.
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