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Turkey possesses a rich variety of vegetation due to its geomorphological features and varieties of ecological conditions and is located at the intersection of phytogeographical regions of the Mediterranean, Euro-Siberian, and Irano-Turonian.
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Atalay, İ. (2018). Vegetation. In: Kapur, S., Akça, E., Günal, H. (eds) The Soils of Turkey. World Soils Book Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64392-2_2
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