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[edit] Holdridge Life Zone

Holdridge Life Zone Classification scheme. Potential evapotranspiration is the amount of evaporation that would occur if water were not limited. Annual precipitation is rain or snow.

v2: Larger numbers & labels

v3: Larger belts/region labels too

Reason: Really well illustrates Holdridge's life zones, and is visually pleasing.
Articles this image appears in: Leslie Holdridge
Creator: User:Pengo (self made)
Nominator: —Pengo

Support — —Pengo 13:25, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
Question What are the chances of increasing the text size? Even in full resolution it's barely readable. ~ trialsanderrors 05:31, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

The numbers down the left and right sides (which I assume you're talking about) appeared larger (or at least clearer) in Inkscape before I uploaded. I'll have a go at fixing them. —Pengo 05:45, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

The text labels could be bigger too, at least on the sides. I don't see any space constraints. ~ trialsanderrors 05:55, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

I've increased the size of most of the text labels now. —Pengo 07:05, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
Support if you can add to the image page all of the sources you used to create the image (to allow us to verify that it is factually correct). It'd also be nice if you could say what you used to make it... but, that isn't as necessary. gren グレン 20:54, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

It was created entirely in Inkscape. It's an amalgamation of various sources. See the image page for links to 7 web-based sources and 2 textbooks referenced (Sorry, they weren't linked from the old image page). Textbook of Biodiversity can be viewed through google books, but the other book (Ecology) was my main reference point and AFAIK is only available hardcopy. The colours used are my own. —Pengo 03:15, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

I wasn't so interesting in checking the sources myself, hah, but... I've just noticed people forget to source diagrams. I'd just looked at the old version it seems. Great job :) --gren グレン 03:25, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
Question - Why are the life zones hexagon shaped instead of triangular, which would be the natural thing to do? Alvesgaspar 21:38, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

I didn't invent this diagram, I based it on existing diagrams, so I can only give a best guess. A hexagon better approximates a circle than would triangles or diamonds. E.g. a dry forest is has 500 to 1000mm precipitation (actually to 2000mm) and an evavotranspiration ratio between 1 and 2, which would fill a diamond on this diagram. However at the extremes of these parameters it might start to be considered a steppe or a very dry forest, so the hexagon better approximates this, while still giving rigid boundaries without gaps. —Pengo 22:09, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

That's why bees use hexagons in their honeycombs: they are the regular polygon with the most sides that still tessellates.--Here T oHelp 15:14, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Support v2 v3 Enc, SVG, larger labels visible in preview (important since many people don't have the ability to read SVGs).--Here T oHelp 15:14, 6 March 2007 (UTC) Weak support edit Overall it is fairly well done and informative. It isn't remarkably striking, but it is probably about as interesting an image you can get with the subject matter. The use of color helps, and the shapes are dynamic. Isn't that useful in a thumbnail because labels are hard to see, but the edit helps the preview be more readable. SVG is a plus so it can easily be translated, edited, and updated by others.-Andrew c 03:27, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Support if the alpine, subalpine, etc. labels are also increased in size. They're still barely readable. ~ trialsanderrors 07:08, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Fair call. Done (v3). —Pengo 12:16, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
Comment: image map is here: User:Pengo/zone (not yet in any articles) —Pengo 14:43, 12 March 2007 (UTC)