Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub
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Facts about Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub
Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub ecoregions of Western
Australia. The region has a wet-winter, dry-summer Mediterranean
climate, one of five such regions in the world.
Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub is a temperate biome,
characterized by dry summers and rainy winters. Summers are typically
hot in low-lying inland locations but can be cool near some seas, as
near San Francisco, which have a sea of cool waters.
The Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub is one of only five
shrublands of its kind, which together support 20 percent of the plant
species on Earth. An incredible variety of plants grow in this
ecoregion that covers coastal, plains, and highland regions.
Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub eco-regions occur in the
world's five Mediterranean climate zones, on the west coast of
continents in the mid-latitudes: the Mediterranean Basin, California,
Central Chile, Southwest Australia, and the Western Cape in South
Africa.
The Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub biome is
closely associated with Mediterranean climate zones. Particularly
distinctive of the climate are sclerophyll shrublands, called maquis
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