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1. Institute of Plant Protection, Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou 450002, China
2. College of Life Sciences, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China
3. First Clinical College, Henan University of Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou 450000, China
4. Academy of Mathematics and Systems Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

ABSTRACT

After summary of the distribution data of 180,661 genera of terrestrial animals, plants, fungi, bacteria and viruses in the world, according to the ecological conditions such as topography and climate, the world land is divided into 67 BGUs (Basic Geographic Units), which are analyzed by four quantitative methods: Single linkage method, Average group linkage method, Sum of squares method and MSCA (Multivariate Similarity Clustering Analysis) method. The MSCA has stronger data mining ability than the first three traditional clustering methods, and can obtain more, more detailed, more accurate and more stable clustering results. According to the clustering results, the first world biogeographical regionalization system was established. This system not only affirms and supports the reasonable scientific core of the mammalian and flowering plant geographical division plan formulated by the predecessors of scholars in the 19th century, but also revises some imbalances in the division criteria and boundary determination caused by their qualitative methods, unifying various global geographical division plans emerging since the 21st century.

KEYWORDS

Terrestrial organisms, animals, plants, fungi, bacteria, distribution, cluster analysis, geographical division.

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