Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub ecoregion in central Chile
Chilean Matorral (NT1201)
Matorral scene in San José de Maipo
Location in Chile
Ecology
Realm
Neotropical
Biome
Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub
Borders
Atacama Desert
Central Andean dry puna
Southern Andean steppe,
Valdivian temperate forests
Geography
Area
148,500 km2 (57,300 sq mi)
Country
Chile
Climate type
BSk: arid, steppe, cold arid
Conservation
Protected
2,947 km2 (2%)[1]
The Chilean Matorral (NT1201) is a terrestrial ecoregion of central Chile, located on the west coast of South America. It is in the Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub biome, part of the Neotropical realm.
The matorral ecoregion is characterized by a temperate Mediterranean climate, with rainy winters and dry summers, and lies between the arid Atacama Desert and the humid Valdivian temperate forests. The ecoregion is home to diverse plant communities, including matorral or tall shrubland, forests and woodlands, savannas, and low shrubland and scrub.[2]
The ecoregion is one of the world's five Mediterranean climate regions, which are all located in the middle latitudes on the west coast of continents. The Mediterranean Basin, the California chaparral and woodlands ecoregion of California and Baja California, the Cape Province of South Africa, and Southwest Australia are the other Mediterranean-climate regions.[3]
^Eric Dinerstein, David Olson, et al. (2017). An Ecoregion-Based Approach to Protecting Half the Terrestrial Realm, BioScience, Volume 67, Issue 6, June 2017, Pages 534–545; Supplemental material 2 table S1b. [1]
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