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| | Palearctic Article, Palearctic Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29) |
 | | The lands bordering the Mediterranean Sea in southern Europe,north Africa, and western Asia are home to the Mediterranean basin ecoregions, which together constitute world's largest and most diverse mediterranean climate region of the world, with generallymild, rainy winters and hot, dry summers. |
 | | The Mediterranean basin's mosaic of Mediterraneanforests, woodlands, and shrub are home to 13,000 endemic species. |
 | | Formerly the region was mostly covered with forests and woodlands, but heavy human use has reduced much of the region tothe sclerophyll shrublands known as chaparral, matorral, maquis, or garrigue. |
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