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Describe the location and special features of Mediterranean forests and Coniferous forests.​

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mediterranean forests

Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub ecoregions are characterized by hot and dry summers, while winters tend to be cool and moist. Most precipitation arrives during these months.

Only 5 regions in the world experience these conditions: the Mediterranean, south-central and southwestern Australia, the fynbos of southern Africa, the Chilean matorral, and the Mediterranean ecoregions of California. Although the habitat is globally rare, it features an extraordinary biodiversity of uniquely adapted animal and plant species, which can adapt to the stressful conditions of long, hot summers with little rain. Most plants are fire adapted, and dependent on this disturbance for their persistence.

All 5 Mediterranean-climate ecoregions are highly distinctive, collectively harboring 10% of the Earth’s plant species. Phytogeographers consider the Fynbos as a separate floral kingdom because 68% of the 8,600 vascular plant species crowded into its 90,000 kilometer2 are endemic and highly distinctive at several taxonomic levels.

In terms of species densities, this is equivalent to about 40% of the plant species of the United States and Canada combined, found within an area the size of the state of Maine (N. Myers, pers. comm.). The Fynbos and Southwest Australia shrublands have floras that are significantly more diverse than the other ecoregions, although any Mediterranean shrubland is still rich in species and endemics relative to other non-forest ecoregions.

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Mediterranean Forests

• Mediterranean forests are generally composed of broad leaf trees. Forests are often found in riparian areas, where they receive more summer water. But although there is a wide variety of habitat, the various Mediterranean forests have common characteristics. Trees, even fully grown, are often stunted and bush-fires catch easily because of the amount of undergrowth. The forest ecosystem is also specific, defined by the Mediterranean climate (a hot, dry, season, a cold, wetter season, sometimes brutal rainfall) and by a wide variety of soils, often eroded and poor in humus.

Coniferous forests

• Coniferous forests consist mostly of conifers, trees that grow needles instead of leaves, and cones instead of flowers. Conifers tend to be evergreen, that is, they bear needles all year long. These adaptations help conifers survive in areas that are very cold or dry.
• The coniferous forest biome is found in the northern parts of Asia, Europe, and North America. The coniferous forest biome makes up one-third of the world's forests. Most of the trees in coniferous forests are conifers.