Some surviving temperate deciduous oak woodlands, mainly of Quercus robur, appear in coastal wetlands on the Italian peninsula and on the island of Corsica. Stone pine Pinus pinea is found on some coastal sand dunes, maritime pine Pinus pinaster grows on higher elevations on the island of Corsica and Sardinia.
Berber thuja woodlands occur on the island of Malta and are one of the only populations of Tetraclinis in Europe.
Two subspecies of large mammal herbivore, the
European mouflon (Ovis aries musimon) and
Corsican red deer (Cervus elaphus corsicanus), are endemic to Corsica and Sardinia.
Protected areas
16,489 km2 (21%) of the ecoregion is in protected areas.[2]
^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.
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^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.
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