Biome

Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands & Scrub

The Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands & Scrub biome gathers 40 ecoregions in Plotwright's worldwide roster. Regions of hot, dry summers and mild, wet winters supporting drought-adapted shrublands - chaparral, maquis, fynbos - and open woodlands. Fire is a natural shaping force, and these climates hold extraordinary plant diversity and endemism.

Aegean and Western Turkey sclerophyllous and mixed forests Albany thickets Anatolian conifer and deciduous mixed forests California coastal sage and chaparral California interior chaparral and woodlands California montane chaparral and woodlands Canary Islands dry woodlands and forests Chilean Matorral Coolgardie woodlands Corsican montane broadleaf and mixed forests Crete Mediterranean forests Cyprus Mediterranean forests Eastern Mediterranean conifer-broadleaf forests Esperance mallee Eyre and York mallee Flinders-Lofty montane woodlands Fynbos shrubland Hampton mallee and woodlands Iberian conifer forests Iberian sclerophyllous and semi-deciduous forests Illyrian deciduous forests Italian sclerophyllous and semi-deciduous forests Jarrah-Karri forest and shrublands Mediterranean Acacia-Argania dry woodlands and succulent thickets Mediterranean dry woodlands and steppe Mediterranean woodlands and forests Murray-Darling woodlands and mallee Naracoorte woodlands Northeast Spain and Southern France Mediterranean forests Northwest Iberian montane forests Pindus Mountains mixed forests Renosterveld shrubland Santa Lucia Montane Chaparral & Woodlands South Apennine mixed montane forests Southeast Iberian shrubs and woodlands Southern Anatolian montane conifer and deciduous forests Southwest Australia savanna Southwest Australia woodlands Southwest Iberian Mediterranean sclerophyllous and mixed forests Tyrrhenian-Adriatic sclerophyllous and mixed forests