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Titre Une théorie des limites climatiques et phytoclimatiques pour la France / A theory of climatic and phytoclimatic limits for France
Auteur Michel Lecompte
Mir@bel Revue Géocarrefour
Titre à cette date : Revue de géographie de Lyon
Numéro volume 65, no 2, 1990 Le climat de la France
Rubrique / Thématique
Les caractères généraux
Page 59-62
Résumé anglais The diversity of French relief is a source of difficulty in the search for representative climatic boundaries. Dynamic analysis of climatic fields provides a qualified answer to this question, outside of the scope of traditional phytoclimatic systems. The significance of the limits can be estimated by the intensity of the opposition between the systems of atmospheric circulation which determine them. Correlation analysis of the floristic fluctuations of the vegetation enables this force to be measured with precision (dynamic phytoclimatology), without being unduly affected by French phytogeographical uncertainties. Finally, climatic limits are defined, in the following order, by the intersections between dynamic, climatic and vegetation fields.
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