Map Drop - Phytogeographic Map of Altera (Patreon)

Here's the print version of this month's feature map, the Distribution of Terrestrial Flora, a phytogeographic map that showcases the distinct landscapes of Altera through the lens of plants—flora distribution patterns. 

As mentioned with the fauna map, a map like this helps you picture what kind of vegetative landscapes and worlds you might encounter in different parts of the world due to shared evolutionary constraints—barriers in physical geography, climate patterns, insularity/isolation, ancient plate tectonics etc. 

The landscape paintings come from an age when geographers like Alexander von Humboldt would themselves, or with the aid of an accomplice, sketch or paint sceneries they encountered abroad, and which represented inspiring intersections of the disciplines of the humanities (anthropology and human geography) and science (botany, physical geography, and geology), as well as, of course, the artistic discipline of landscape painting and taxonomy art. 

Download the print version here.  

As always, the footnotes will follow soon. I hope to post them early next week.