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| | Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Crimean Submediterranean forest complex (PA0416) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | This is a land of spectacular beauty, including montane pine forests, waterfalls, caves, craters, grottoes, and rocky beaches. |
 | | Crimean maquis forests, or shiblyak, consist of oak, hornbeam, Christ’s thorn, and pyracantha. |
 | | Pitsundian pine forests occur up to 3,280 feet (1,000 m), with Scot’s pine and eastern beech found at even higher altitudes. |
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