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Figure 40. The Environmental Classification of Europe in eighty-four classes, aggregated to 13 Environmental Zones.
Because certain classes do not necessarily fit traditional experience, in this classification strict statistical rules have been
maintained, recognising these apparent inconsistencies, e.g. PAN in the Vosges and Schwarzwald and CON in southern
Norway. Here we distinguish 13 Environmental Zones: ALN – Alpine North, BOR – Boreal, NEM – Nemoral, ATN – Atlantic
North, ALS – Alpine South, CON – Continental, ATC – Atlantic Central, PAN – Pannonian, LUS – Lusitanian, ANO –
Anotolian, MDM – Mediterranean Mountains, MDN – Mediterranean North, MDS – Mediterranean South.
Figure 41. Climatic and topographic variables were statistically clustered into 84 environmental classes. By calculating
discriminant functions for the classes they can be mapped for each global change scenario, resulting in maps of shifting
environmental zones that can be used for stratification. Here we distinguish 13 Environmental Zones: ALN – Alpine North,
BOR – Boreal, NEM – Nemoral, ATN – Atlantic North, ALS – Alpine South, CON – Continental, ATC – Atlantic Central, PAN
– Pannonian, LUS – Lusitanian, ANO – Anotolian, MDM – Mediterranean Mountains, MDN – Mediterranean North, MDS –
Mediterranean South.