Mediterranean forest

The Mediterranean forests is an ecoregion, of the Mediterranean forests,woodlands ,and scrub biome in the coastal plains, hills, and mountains bordering the Mediterrean sea and Atlantic Ocean in North Africa.                                                                                                                                           IN GEOGRAPHYThe Mediterranean woodlands and forests occupy an area of 357,900 square kilometers (138,200 sq mi) in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya. The main portion of the ecoregions extends along the coastal plains and hills of the Maghre, from near Agadir on the Atlantic coast of Morocco in the west to Sfax on the Gulf of Gabes in Tunisia. The ecoregion extends inland to cover the lower slopes of the middle Atlas and High Atlas ranges of Morocco, with isolated enclaves along the sharan Atlas range of Algeria.                                                                                                           FLORAThe natural vegetation consists of forests, woodlands, and shurblands.there are some five chief plant communities.they are:                                                                                                                          1.Xeric pine forests and woodlands: The xeric pine forests are found mainly in the drier interior, near the transition to the mediterranean dry woodlands and steppe.it is often found in the evergreen holm oak and xeric junipers.                                                                                                                  2. Berber Thuya forests and woodlands: These forests and woodlands are found in the milder lowlands of northern Morocco, western coastal Algeria, and pockets in the coastal mountains in northwestern Tunisia, typically on soils derived from limestone.                                                                  3.Cork Oak forests: are found in low and medium elevations with mild winters and relatively high rainfall (600 to 800 mmoften on soils formed over siliceous rocks. Cork oak forests are found on the coastal plains between Casablanca and the Rif mountains in northern Morocco, and several areas further inland around the Rif and Middle Atlas ranges. They also found on along the Tell Atlas of northern Algeria, and in the Kroumerie and Mogod mountain ranges of northwestern Tunisia).