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. 2013 Sep 15;3(11):3879–3894. doi: 10.1002/ece3.762

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Location of the study region within the Mediterranean Basin. (A) Map of Andalusia (southern Iberian Peninsula) and northern Morocco (NW Africa), showing the position of the Baetic and Rifan ranges. The inset shows the Mediterranean Basin hotspots according to Médail and Quézel (1997) (modified from Médail and Quézel 1999). (B) Map showing ecoregions within Andalusia and northern Morocco (after Valdés et al. 1987, 2002; Blanca et al. 2009). The highlighted ecoregions correspond to those that match the mountain ranges forming the Baetic-Rifan hotspot. The numbers correspond to the names of ecoregions as in Appendix S1. (C) Top pictures represent typical landscapes of woodlands and chamaephyte highlands respectively in Andalusia (top-left and bottom-left corners) and North Morocco (top-right and bottom-right corners). Pictures by Juan Arroyo Marín. Bottom pictures represent two closely related pairs of taxa (Cistaceae) distributed on southern Iberian Peninsula and northern Morocco that are found under contrasting soil conditions (see Appendix S2 for references of molecular phylogenies of implied taxa). From left to right and top to bottom: Halimium atriplicifolium subsp. atriplicifolium (serpentines), Halimium lasianthum subsp. lasianthum (sandstones), Helianthemum alypoides (gypsum outcrops) and Helianthemum polygonoides (saline soils). Pictures by Abelardo Aparicio Martínez.