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A Mediterranean forest, in the Region of Murcia . The Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub biome mostly occurs in, but not limited to, the Mediterranean climate zones, in the mid-latitudes: [1] the Mediterranean Basin; the Chilean Matorral; the California chaparral and woodlands ecoregion of California and the Baja California Peninsula
Foliage and cone of the Aleppo pine (Pinus halepensis).. The natural vegetation consists of forests, woodlands, and shrublands.The five chief plant communities are: Xeric pine forests and woodlands: The xeric pine forests are found mainly in the drier interior, near the transition to the Mediterranean dry woodlands and steppe, where rainfall averages 300 to 600 mm per year.
Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub in the United States (1 C, 4 P) Pages in category "Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub" The following 47 pages are in this category, out of 47 total.
The ecoregion extends from the southern Po Basin in northern Italy to the southern Apennine Mountains of Basilicata and Calabria.It covers the lowlands of central Italy, including the valleys of the Arno and Tiber rivers, the Tyrrhenian Sea (western) coast of central Italy and Liguria, extending into southeastern France, and central Italy's Adriatic coast, as well as the middle elevations of ...
Map of maquis regions of the world Low maquis in Corsica High macchia in Sardinia. Maquis (UK: / m æ ˈ k iː / ma-KEE, US: / m ɑː ˈ k iː / mah-KEE, French:) or macchia (/ ˈ m ɑː k i ə / MAH-kee-ə, Italian:; often macchia mediterranea in Italian; Corsican: machja, pronounced; Croatian: makija; Occitan: maquís; Catalan: màquia) is a savanna-like shrubland biome in the Mediterranean ...
Forests of Holm oak (Quercus rotundifolia) form natural forests in most of the Mediterranean region as well as penetrating into the warmer sun-exposed areas and hillsides of the Atlantic region; they extend from sea level, with the subspecies ilex, to an elevation of 1400 metres, in some mountains and high plains of the interior; in the ...
The Dadia Forest in the northeast is an important area for birds of prey, where four species of vulture are among the thirty-six diurnal species of raptor that have been recorded. [ 10 ] Birds commonly found in the maquis shrubland include the eastern subalpine and Rüppell's warblers , the cirl , rock and black-headed buntings , and the rock ...
The Aegean and Western Turkey sclerophyllous and mixed forests is an ecoregion in the lands around the Aegean Sea.The ecoregion covers most of mainland Greece, the Greek Aegean Islands (except for Crete), the western coast of Turkey, the southern Vardar river valley in North Macedonia, the southern Struma river valley at the extreme south-western corner of Bulgaria.