Climate Zones

[Ralij]

Greetings! Unlike many of you I do not have a background in science, but rather am more into the humanities. My current project is world building for a fantasy novel I've been working on, but would like it to be realistic geologically and ecologically, even bordering on the 'hard fantasy' subgenre. My primary focus tonight has been on the scaling of biospheres, particularly how various wetlands (bogs, swamps, and marshes) would interact with a tropical forest environment. I also have an area of a hot desert (on the protected side of a mountain range and next to a cold, southern moving current) that I'm not certain how far inland it would start or if it would be a sand desert or not... Anyway, thank you for the assistance!