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matorral [2 records]

Record 1 2015-07-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ecology (General)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Écologie (Généralités)
DEF

Formation buissonnante à petits arbres rabougris et espacés (caroubier, lentisque), localisée surtout en Castille [Espagne] et qui est une forme dégradée de la forêt à chêne vert.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Ecología (Generalidades)
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Record 2 1979-05-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Botany
  • Ecology (General)
DEF

[a] sparse [forest] where clumps of trees are completely dissociated from the herbaceous vegetation. [This] is, unfortunately, the form that Mediterranean forests usually take.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Botanique
  • Écologie (Généralités)
DEF

Fourré méditerranéen xérophile à végétation ligneuse très développée. Certains auteurs (...) regroupent sous ce terme toutes les formations frutescentes et sous-frutescentes d'origine secondaire des régions méditerranéennes (maquis, garrigue, etc.).

OBS

Origine espagnole.

Spanish

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