Decline in Cyrenaican Juniper forests and the 2011 Libyan ...

The Benghazi coastal plain to the west is broad (to 50 km) but has lower rainfall. Defining the Jebel forest zone as the area of > 250 mm. rainfall suggests an area of approx 850,000 ha. Vegetation varies regionally, with coastal Mediterranean shrublands, juniper woodlands on slopes and escarpments and cypress, oak, laurel and arbutus woodlands ... ................
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