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Definitions
Mediterranean-type ecosystems (often abbreviated to MTEs) are ecosystems associated with Mediterranean-type climates. The Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub biome is a geographic representation of their distribution representing one of 14 global terrestrial biomes in the WWF's bioregionalisation scheme.

The Fynbos ecoregion in South Africa, part of the the Afrotropical ecozone, incorporating: Lowland fynbos and renosterveld and Montane fynbos and renosterveld

Australasia
 * Southwest Australia = Southwestern Australia Forests and Scrub
 * Warren = Jarrah-Karri forest and shrublands
 * Jarrah Forest = Southwest Australia woodlands
 * Geraldton Sandplains + Avon Wheatbelt + Yalgoo(1) = Southwest Australia savanna
 * Swan Coastal Plain = Kwongan heathlands
 * Esperance Plains + Mallee(1) = Esperance mallee
 * Coolgardie = Coolgardie woodlands

(1) Part of the Eremaean Botanic Province
 * Southern Australia Mallee and Woodlands
 * Naracoorte Coastal Plain = Naracoorte woodlands
 * Eyre Yorke Block = Eyre and York mallee
 * Mount Lofty Ranges = Mount Lofty woodlands
 * Murray Darling Depression = Murray-Darling woodlands and mallee

Nearctic
 * California Chaparral and Woodlands
 * California coastal sage and chaparral
 * California interior chaparral and woodlands
 * California montane chaparral and woodlands

Neotropical
 * Chilean Matorral

Palearctic
 * Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands and Scrub
 * Aegean and Western Turkey sclerophyllous and mixed forests
 * Anatolian conifer and deciduous mixed forests
 * Canary Islands dry woodlands and forests
 * Corsican montane broadleaf and mixed forests
 * Crete Mediterranean forests
 * Cyprus Mediterranean forests
 * Eastern Mediterranean conifer-sclerophyllous-broadleaf forests
 * Iberian conifer forests
 * Iberian sclerophyllous and semi-deciduous forests
 * Illyrian deciduous forests
 * Italian sclerophyllous and semi-deciduous forests
 * Mediterranean acacia-argania dry woodlands and succulent thickets
 * Mediterranean dry woodlands and steppe
 * Mediterranean woodlands and forests
 * Northeastern Spain and Southern France Mediterranean forests
 * Northwest Iberian montane forests
 * Pindus Mountains mixed forests
 * South Apennine mixed montane forests
 * Southeastern Iberian shrubs and woodlands
 * Southern Anatolian montane conifer and deciduous forests
 * Southwest Iberian Mediterranean sclerophyllous and mixed forests
 * Tyrrhenian-Adriatic sclerophyllous and mixed forests

== Both of which terms suffer from excessive hyphenation and geographic ambiguity. Of course climate classifications clearly define the boundaries of Mediterranean climates, but these boundaries are arbitrarily determined to relate to vegetation, ecosystems, agricultural zones or biomes (stated on Köppen climate classification but not Climate classification). This presents a conundrum if I want to talk about how/why we identify MTEs - they are defined by MTCs which are based on MTEs. I believe this is a version of bootstrapping.

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