- Mediterranean Acacia-Argania dry woodlands
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The Mediterranean Acacia-Argania dry woodlands and succulent thickets is an ecoregion, in the Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub Biome, in the Mediterranean climate areas of:
- MainlyMorocco,
- northwestern Western Sahara,
- the eastern Canary Islands, including Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, and associated islets.
Description
Forests of Argania spinosa accompanied by Acacias, and succulent shrubland dominated by Euphorbias, are the chief plant communities in the ecoregion.
The Mediterranean Acacia-Argania dry woodlands and succulent thickets ecoregion is bounded on the north by the Mediterranean woodlands and forests, on the east by the North Saharan steppe and woodlands, on the south by the Atlantic coastal desert, and on the west by the Atlantic Ocean.
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