1. MEDITERRANEAN
FOREST

2. LOCATION
• The Mediterranean forests, can be found around the world. It
occurs in the world's five Mediterranean climate zones, on the west
coast of continents in the mid-latitudes.

3. CLIMATE
• Hot, dry summers, contrast with much milder, wetter winters.
• Absence of precipitation which is concentrated in very short
periods of time, ususally in autumn and winter.
• Bushfires are a common occurrence, due to the high frequency of
thunderstorm; 1 % of Mediterranean forest is lost every year as a
result of fires.

4. FLORA
An impressive diversity
of flora and fauna
Cork tree
exists in this habitat
Cork tree
Holm oak Conifers and angiosperms
are well adapted to the
contrasts of climate.
Holm Oaks and Cork trees
are the undisputed
protagonists of the
landscape of much of the
Iberian Peninsula.

5. • Conifers have successfully
colonized most difficult
substrates, creating
magnificent forests.
Plants from these forests
suffer during the summer a
drought, for what they display
the most original strategies to
survive. The most important
of these is the development
of sclerophillous leaves (hard
and thick)

6. Among the species
FAUNA most representatives
we have:
Deer (Cervus elaphus) Woodpecker
Iberian lynx (Lynx pardina) Iberian wolf (Canis lupus)

7. Rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus)
Spanish Imperial eagle (Aquila heliaca
adalberti)
Toad (Alytes obstetricans) Chameleon
(Chamaeleo chamaeleon)