Figure 2.

Genetic (primarily allozyme) diversity in major plant and animal taxa on the opposite slopes of EC I, Lower Nahal Oren, Mount Carmel, Israel. The mesic, temperate, and mild NFS and the xeric, tropical, and stressful SFS. Caloplaca aurantia (lichen); H. spontaneum (wild barley); Bimastos syriacum (earthworm); Buliminus labrosus, Pomatias olivieri, and Levantina caesareana (land snails); Drosophila simulans and Zaprionus tuberculatus (fruit flies); Tetrarthrosoma syriacum (diplopod); Carabus hemprichi and Oxythyrea noemi (beetles); and A. cahirinus and A. mystacinus (rodents) are presented. The genetic diversities represent allozyme heterozygosity observed (H) or expected (He). Genetic diversity of Nostoc is based on AFLP gene diversity.