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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) * Cantab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ecoregion
An ecoregion (ecological region) is an ecological and geographic area that exists on multiple different levels, defined by type, quality, and quantity of environmental resources. 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). Ecoregions are also known as "ecozones" ("ecological zones"), although that term may also refer to biogeographic realms. Three caveats are appropriate for all bio-geographic mapping approaches. Firstly, no single bio-geographic fram ... [...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, whi ... [...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) * Cantab ... [...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 east by the Levant in West Asia, on the north by Anatolia in West Asia and Southern Europe, on the south by North Africa, and on the west almost by the Morocco–Spain border. 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. Geological evidence indicates that around 5.9 million years ago, the Mediterranean was cut off from the Atlantic and was partly or completely desiccation, 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 sea was an important ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South European Atlantic
South is one of the cardinal directions or Points of the compass, compass points. The direction is the opposite of north and is perpendicular to both west and east. Etymology The word ''south'' comes from Old English ''sūþ'', from earlier Proto-Germanic language, Proto-Germanic ''*sunþaz'' ("south"), possibly related to the same Proto-Indo-European language, 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', ), 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). South is s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Azores Canaries Madeira
The Azores ( , , ; , ), officially the Autonomous Region of the Azores (), is one of the two autonomous regions of Portugal (along with Madeira). It is an archipelago composed of nine volcanic islands in the Macaronesia region of the North Atlantic Ocean, about west of Lisbon, about northwest of Morocco, about southeast of Newfoundland, Canada, and the same distance southwest of Cork, Ireland. Its main industries are agriculture, dairy farming, livestock, fishing, and tourism, which has become a major service activity in the region. In the 20th century and to some extent into the 21st, they have served as a waypoint for refueling aircraft flying between Europe and North America. The government of the Azores employs a large percentage of the population directly or indirectly in the service and tertiary sectors. The largest city of the Azores is Ponta Delgada. The culture, dialect, cuisine, and traditions of the Azorean islands vary considerably, because these remote islands were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
