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The natural vegetation in eastern Turkey is the Eastern Anatolian deciduous forests; in these oaks such as Brant's oak, Lebanon oak, Aleppo oak and Mount Thabor's oak predominate in open woodland with Scots pine, burnet rose, dog-rose, oriental plane, alder, sweet chestnut, maple, Caucasian honeysuckle (Lonicera caucasica) and common juniper. [8]
The natural vegetation in eastern Turkey is the Eastern Anatolian deciduous forests; in these oaks such as Brant's oak, Lebanon oak, Aleppo oak and Mount Thabor's oak predominate in open woodland with Scots pine, burnet rose, dog-rose, oriental plane, alder, sweet chestnut, maple, Caucasian honeysuckle (Lonicera caucasica) and common juniper. [11]
About half of forest in Turkey is directly part of the economy, with most of the rest functioning as watershed and erosion control. [5] 29 million m 3 of standing trees, [note 2] 23 million m 3 industrial wood, and five million steres of firewood were sold in 2023. [1]: 42 As of 2023, wood production is the main source of profit from forests.
Pamukkale, (Turkish pronunciation: [pa'mukĚškale]) meaning "cotton castle" in Turkish, is a natural site in Denizli Province in southwestern Turkey.The area is famous for a carbonate mineral left by the flowing of thermal spring water.
It’s one of the best-preserved archeological sites in Turkey because its remote location prevented it from looting, and the settlement was quickly covered by vegetation and soil due to erosion.
For the purposes of this category, "Turkey" is defined in accordance with the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions. That is, the geographic region is mostly defined by its political boundaries except it excludes the part of Turkey geographically aligned with Southeastern Europe (see Category:Flora of European Turkey ).
The ecoregion's forests are mostly conifers, with deciduous broadleaf trees. In the western portion of the northern ranges, Turkish fir (Abies nordmanniana subsp. equi-trojani, syn. Abies bornmuelleriana) is predominant, mixed with oriental beech (Fagus orientalis), Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris), or both.
The following is a list of ecoregions in Turkey as identified by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). Terrestrial. Turkey is in the Palearctic realm.