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Mediterranean Scrub
This type of environment is characterized by warm dry summers and mild rainy winters. This remarkably influences the vegetation, which is therefore characterized by low, woody, evergreen plants with a sclerophytic type of structure, that is, with small and hard leaves that are suited to resist the summer draught.
For this reason the Mediterranean scrub is also called “sclerophyl forest” (skleros = hard, phyllon = leaf).
Total annual rainfall is approximately 250-500 millimetres and occurs mainly in the winter months. In summer the mean monthly temperature is often higher than 20°C and in this biome, in winter it very rarely freezes.
subjects dealt with in Mediterranean Scrub
Mediterranean Scrub
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Man and the biome
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Human impact
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9 May 2022 / Ecosystems
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20 October 2021 / Ecosystems
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30 July 2020 / Ecosystems
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We have been speaking of sustainable behaviours to apply to our daily life, but what happens when we unplug and…
23 June 2020 / Ecosystems
The Last Wild Valley. In defence of the Cime Bianche
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4 August 2022 / Ecosystems
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8 July 2022 / Ecosystems
Who's coming to dinner
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9 May 2022 / Ecosystems
Pollination, a perfect alliance between plants and animals
Firmly rooted in soil, over the course of their evolution plants have had to develop biological mechanisms for feeding and…
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20 October 2021 / Ecosystems
Chapada Diamantina: a treasure beyond gemstones
White sandy beaches where winter never comes, the most exhilarating Carnivals in the world, the largest forest on Earth: these…
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30 July 2020 / Ecosystems
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We have been speaking of sustainable behaviours to apply to our daily life, but what happens when we unplug and…
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23 June 2020 / Ecosystems
The Last Wild Valley. In defence of the Cime Bianche
The Vallone delle Cime Bianche or Courtaud Valley rises at the top of the Val d'Ayas, in Valle d'Aosta. It…
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10 February 2020 / Ecosystems
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7 January 2020 / Ecosystems
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When walking along a tree-lined avenue in a crowded and traffic-congested city, wrapped up in our daily commitments, we do…
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