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    Sclerophyll is a type of vegetation that is adapted to long periods of dryness and heat. The plants feature hard leaves, short internodes (the distance...
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    Spanish, and batha in Hebrew. Shrublands are dense thickets of evergreen sclerophyll shrubs and small trees and are the most common plant community around...
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    A dry sclerophyll woodland in western Sydney....
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    Sclerophyll woodlands and forests were once more extensive, but now exist in small patches in the coast ranges and Andean foothills. The sclerophyll forests...
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    Bavayia exsuccida, also known as the sclerophyll bavayia, is a species of geckos endemic to North Province, New Caledonia. As of 2022, it is known from...
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    129 trees/ha, compared to 103 for riparian forest, while Eastern Australian sclerophyll forests have average tree densities of approximately 100 per hectare...
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    region are grassy woodlands (i.e. savannas) and some pockets of dry sclerophyll forests, which consist of eucalyptus trees, casuarinas, melaleucas, corymbias...
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    Dry sclerophyll forests occur throughout northern and eastern Tasmania. Characterised by the population of hard-leafed (sclerophyll) and often spiky,...
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    rainforest Temperate deciduous forest Temperate evergreen forest needleleaf sclerophyll Subarctic-subalpine needle-leaved forests (taiga) Elfin woodland Thorn...
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    Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub (category Sclerophyll forests)
    history. Much of the woody vegetation in Mediterranean-climate regions is sclerophyll, which means 'hard-leaved' in Greek. Sclerophyllous vegetation generally...
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    mixed forests ecoregion, in which forests and woodlands of evergreen sclerophyll oaks predominate, chiefly holm oak (Quercus ilex) and cork oak (Quercus...
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    The environments range from alpine area on the higher mountains, to sclerophyll forest and to woodland. Much of the ACT has been cleared for grazing...
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    the region and location. Particularly distinctive of the climate are sclerophyll shrublands, called maquis in the Mediterranean Basin, chaparral in California...
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    rodents, beetles, worms, bugs, and other small mammals. They live in sclerophyll woodland and open forests, in almost any area with trees large enough...
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    Tinaroo form in sclerophyll woodland near Lake Tinaroo, Atherton Tableland, far north Queensland Bowenia Lake Tinaroo form in sclerophyll woodland after...
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    different types. These are also considered distinct from the more common wet sclerophyll forests, though these eucalypt forests often form with rainforest understorey...
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    several centuries grass increased; sclerophyll vegetation increased with a lag of another century, and a sclerophyll forest developed after about another...
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    Sclerophyll forests in the Santiago Metropolitan Region in Chile...
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    oil-rich feral olive tree substantially increases the fire hazard of native sclerophyll woodlands. Olives are harvested in the autumn and winter. More specifically...
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    scattered forms in the Greater Western Sydney area, it is made up of dry sclerophyll woodlands and forests, reminiscent of the Mediterranean forests, totaling...
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    gradually retreated, and were replaced by the more drought-tolerant sclerophyll plant communities familiar today. Most of the last remaining laurel forests...
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    wet conditions were replaced by more cold-tolerant or drought-tolerant sclerophyll plant communities. Many of the late Cretaceous – early Tertiary Gondwanan...
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    mainly feature biomes such as grassy woodlands or savannas and some sclerophyll forests, with some pockets of mallee shrublands, riparian forests, heathlands...
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    woodlands, but heavy human use has reduced much of the region to the sclerophyll shrublands known as chaparral, matorral, maquis, or garrigue. Conservation...
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    qualities. There are six ecosystem groups in the TWWHA - rainforest, sclerophyll communities, alpine treeless vegetation, subalpine treeless vegetation...
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    "Habitat requirements for the conservation of arboreal marsupials in dry sclerophyll forests of southeast Queensland, Australia". Forest Science. 48 (2):...
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    The intensity of these fires is due in part to natural fuels, such as sclerophyll forests in the region. While adapting to cope with drought and predators...
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    1300mm, are within the Southern Lowland Wet Sclerophyll Forests and Southern Escarpment Wet Sclerophyll Forests biomes which generally feature tall,...
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  • tissue composed of sclereids or of a mixture of sclereids and fibers. sclerophyll A plant with hard, stiff leaves; any structure stiffened with thick-walled...
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    stringybarks (such as the Octopus tree) remain there. A rare patch of non-sclerophyll Tasmanian rainforest dominated by myrtle beech and blackheart sassafras...
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