Mediterranean environments - Fundamentals of the Physical Environment - page 648

Holm - oak
woodlan d

S = 77 1

Grazed
hillslopes

B = 0.58

B = 0.58

2

Downy
oaks

20m

S = 94

Abandoned
fields

B = 0.41 B = 0.41

3

B = 0.40 B = 0.40

S = 41

4 S = 63

500m

Figure 25.12 and plant diversities along a slope transect in southern France.
Source: After Le Floc'h et al. (1998)

Plate 25.6 Fire devastates thousands of hectares of countryside in the Mediterranean region each year. This fireburn has
removed vegetation from a hillside on the French Riviera.
Photo: Peter Smithson