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Ecoregions Of Spain
{{Short description, none The following is a list of ecoregions in Spain, including the Canary Islands, Ceuta, Melilla, and the Plazas de soberanía, according to the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF). Terrestrial ecoregions Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub * Canary Islands dry woodlands and forests (Canary Islands) * Iberian conifer forests * Iberian sclerophyllous and semi-deciduous forests * Mediterranean acacia-argania dry woodlands and succulent thickets (Canary Islands) * Mediterranean woodlands and forests (Ceuta, Melilla, and Plazas de soberanía) * Northeastern Spain and Southern France Mediterranean forests * Northwest Iberian montane forests * Southeastern Iberian shrubs and woodlands * Southwest Iberian Mediterranean sclerophyllous and mixed forests Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests * Cantabrian mixed forests * Pyrenees conifer and mixed forests Freshwater ecoregions * Atlantic Northwest Africa (Ceuta, Melilla, and Plazas de soberanía) * Cantabric Coast - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ecoregion
An ecoregion (ecological region) or ecozone (ecological zone) is an ecologically and geographically defined area that is smaller than a bioregion, which in turn is smaller than a biogeographic realm. Ecoregions cover relatively large areas of land or water, and contain characteristic, geographically distinct assemblages of natural communities and species. The biodiversity of flora, fauna and ecosystems that characterise an ecoregion tends to be distinct from that of other ecoregions. In theory, biodiversity or conservation ecoregions are relatively large areas of land or water where the probability of encountering different species and communities at any given point remains relatively constant, within an acceptable range of variation (largely undefined at this point). Three caveats are appropriate for all bio-geographic mapping approaches. Firstly, no single bio-geographic framework is optimal for all taxa. Ecoregions reflect the best compromise for as many taxa as possible. Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southwest Iberian Mediterranean Sclerophyllous And Mixed Forests
The Southwest Iberian Mediterranean sclerophyllous and mixed forests is a Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub ecoregion in southwestern Europe. It occupies the southwestern Iberian Peninsula, encompassing coastal lowlands and mountains in portions of Portugal and Spain. The ecoregion has a Mediterranean climate, moderated by the influence of the Atlantic Ocean. Summer temperatures tend to be cooler than other Mediterranean climate regions, and winter frosts are rare below 1500 metres. Geography The ecoregion occupies the coastal lowlands and hills in Portugal and southwestern Spain, including the lower basins of the Tagus, Guadiana, and Guadalquivir rivers. The city of Lisbon is at the mouth of the Tagus, and the cities of Seville and Cordoba lie in the valley of the Guadalquivir. Other cities in the ecoregion include Cadiz on the Atlantic, and Málaga on the Alboran Sea. The ecoregion is bounded on the east by the Iberian sclerophyllous and semi-deciduous forests, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ecoregions Of Spain
{{Short description, none The following is a list of ecoregions in Spain, including the Canary Islands, Ceuta, Melilla, and the Plazas de soberanía, according to the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF). Terrestrial ecoregions Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub * Canary Islands dry woodlands and forests (Canary Islands) * Iberian conifer forests * Iberian sclerophyllous and semi-deciduous forests * Mediterranean acacia-argania dry woodlands and succulent thickets (Canary Islands) * Mediterranean woodlands and forests (Ceuta, Melilla, and Plazas de soberanía) * Northeastern Spain and Southern France Mediterranean forests * Northwest Iberian montane forests * Southeastern Iberian shrubs and woodlands * Southwest Iberian Mediterranean sclerophyllous and mixed forests Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests * Cantabrian mixed forests * Pyrenees conifer and mixed forests Freshwater ecoregions * Atlantic Northwest Africa (Ceuta, Melilla, and Plazas de soberanía) * Cantabric Coast - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Mediterranean
The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Western and Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, and on the east by the Levant. The Sea has played a central role in the history of Western civilization. Geological evidence indicates that around 5.9 million years ago, the Mediterranean was cut off from the Atlantic and was partly or completely desiccated over a period of some 600,000 years during the Messinian salinity crisis before being refilled by the Zanclean flood about 5.3 million years ago. The Mediterranean Sea covers an area of about , representing 0.7% of the global ocean surface, but its connection to the Atlantic via the Strait of Gibraltar—the narrow strait that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea and separates the Iberian Peninsula in Europe from Morocco in Africa—is only wide. The Mediterranean Sea en ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South European Atlantic
South is one of the cardinal directions or compass points. The direction is the opposite of north and is perpendicular to both east and west. Etymology The word ''south'' comes from Old English ''sūþ'', from earlier Proto-Germanic ''*sunþaz'' ("south"), possibly related to the same Proto-Indo-European root that the word ''sun'' derived from. Some languages describe south in the same way, from the fact that it is the direction of the sun at noon (in the Northern Hemisphere), like Latin meridies 'noon, south' (from medius 'middle' + dies 'day', cf English meridional), while others describe south as the right-hand side of the rising sun, like Biblical Hebrew תֵּימָן teiman 'south' from יָמִין yamin 'right', Aramaic תַּימנַא taymna from יָמִין yamin 'right' and Syriac ܬܰܝܡܢܳܐ taymna from ܝܰܡܝܺܢܳܐ yamina (hence the name of Yemen, the land to the south/right of the Levant). Navigation By convention, the ''bottom or down-facing side'' of a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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