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Italy is a country that has a large environmental variability mainly for reasons related to its territory. Italy is a state vertically stretched from north to south and its political borders that are east and west are rich in biodiversity. This particular morphology is complicated by the orography of the two main mountain ranges, the Alps and the Apennines, which give rise to two major climatic regions: the Mediterranean region and the continent.
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Achille, G. (2015). The Habitat of Italian Snakes. In: Snakes of Italy. SpringerBriefs in Animal Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14106-0_12
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